Bits and pieces of my life experiences.. raw, unfiltered and sometimes embarassing that are etched in my memory forever.
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A Local Bus
I had traveled to Chennai—back when it was still called Madras—for a job interview at a software company. My brother was working there at the time and had a rented place, so naturally, I went to stay with him. When I arrived he had already left for work, but he’d arranged with his landlord to
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Dreams
In college, I wasn’t half as smart as my friends. All of them went places after graduating, while I was stuck in a cycle of trial and error. At the time, there was talk of several large software companies planning to set up shop in BBSR. So I dreamed of settling down there. I did
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Fear of Failure
I am a self-taught programmer, a self-taught watercolorist, and a self-taught many other things. But I have also failed at every one of them—countless times. When I was teaching myself to code, I had sleepless nights because I couldn’t finish a project. I would get stuck. This was in the pre-internet days, when help was