nitesh sharma

Professional Programmer, Introverted traveler, and Admirer of classics.

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The Mayank Case.

So In the last batch, I didn’t pay attention to this guy Mayank, and it came back and bit me. Infect all the people in the last quartile Venkatesh, Mayank Vishvjeet performed poorly.

With the mayank, his output was very poor, his behavior was not so good and I made a mistake to let him pass through. He has a job and he didn’t perform right and it was my job to make sure he does that. My own bar was may be quiet low.

Another aspect was that it was my first batch, and it is aspected that I will make the mistakes. When ever you are doing something new there is very likelyhood that you will end up making mistakes. Infect it is the good sign that you are learning.

My general bar of expectations were low as well. I am happy with bharath but not many other people. and I am the one who is holding them accountable. where in real life they just fire them.

Then these people were not very...

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What If.

So what if after the two months, I do this. Stop arranging the circumstances and start arranging the mind first. what if I really do 1 vipassana every month. serve or attend then study for 20 days what you can do and then do it again, until you figured out the mind and a clear path for yourself.

Put your time resource and money and see if you can revamp the mind and figure out a path based on the truth.

So if my goal is this, that I wanna make sure I understand the mind so well and have a clear path based on the truth.

The second thing is the resource and finance. If I can freelance or create a product that solves a problem and pays me enough 50-80K it is not bad if It doesn’t come in between what I am doing and what I should do.

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Road Ahead.

There is some attachment to being right and it is creating this agitation in voice, now as the victory and failure and as long as I have attachments to be right these things will continue to happen. And at one level there is nothing wrong it is a kind of a noise there that’s all, tomorrow you will have some kind of success and all the sudden mind feels good.

The real question is clarity of direction, in the absence of that everything is foggy. and these very trivial things start to takes precedence. Competition, greed, opinion of others.

So I need the extreme clarity statement for 2 months and what to do after 2 months.

In a bigger scheme of things, The clarity of the mind is probably the most important thing. and the second most important thing is the resources.

Let’s say you have clarity and you know what is right and what is wrong. can you leave the chatter of the mind and do...

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Relationship Game.

Relationship is about supporting each and others game. like 2 player thing. Help her to plan the next move. The relationship game become the co-op player for her.

The only good thing is to have a company, in a relationship be present, see what can you do to support other persons dream.

The other thing is that I am lonley and it is not therotical but really. There is another scarecity thing is kicking.

This is not a game, it is a player that you are selecting.

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Back End Engineering.

So a new game begins, I need to learn back end engineering. In the beginning of the game you don’t know much about the fields and tools, There is another metagame is in the play which is problem-solving. And the last game is the teaching of the backend.

These are all over lapping games with not a clear goals and With in this you need to move optimally.

If I see full stack architecture, the bottle nack for me is linux, networking, shell, aws, overall architecture. what I need to learn is redis, elastic search, new relic, solr.

See if you wanna play this game in 9 weeks, and it is tightly coupled with the teaching game so it is slightly narrow edge. and you need to take the most optimal step too.

So actually I am playing 3 games at once, The problem solving, Master the abac

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Playing Multiple Games.

There are four primary games I am playing.

  • Learn backend
  • Run the course optimally
  • Optimal Problem Solving
  • Letting go of the old karma.

There are certain knowns, I can start there. In teaching the most important thing is that you have an execution level idea. on the other hand you are building the full map. In this case the big picture is not clear but execution level clarity is there. At the worse case scenario, I would have understanding for the next week. In the good case scenario, you have the big picture and you are adjusting weekly based on data.

So for this do the one week sprint and focus on what you can teach, and build the full curriculum.

  • General introduction and all.
  • So for the first day I can give them one the project.
  • Then set the expectation
    • No copying the code.
    • Comman code review.
    • Morning standup | Evening check ins.
    • Setup Gitlab | Trello.

For this week

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Life is one massive game.

So in the larger scope it is an age of empire kind of game. There are many small game inside this one major game and you can select whichever game you wanna play. You have to real time stratigic to play these games, and ofcourse it is a multiplayer game.

Now lets take the machanics of the software architect and play that as a game, your role is to keep yourself in the flow state, and keep growing, and build more and more complex structure, the more complex structure you build the more you win, you need to learn better tool.

The same game is the game of appearance and teaching.

Silenece and focus is more of takken kind of games. where you are in the combat setting.

Communication is a game of chess.
problem solving games are games of dog house.

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Lin.

A thunderstorm hits. Yesterday Lin told me she wants to break up, there are words she used which pears my heart. I am like a prisoner waiting for her sentence.

Even among the midst of that my mind was wandering and thinking other things. Which shows me how little importance I have for her. While she is gasping for the air.

In the whole process, she became the looser. She shared her heart and her home and I just took advantage of her inability to speak up. I knew very well what are her expectations and the mind still keep going forward for my own ease what kind of self-centric mother fucker I am.

If you have any sense of heart just move out. don’t make her suffer, she is a good women. She is perfect in her own way, Don’t change her or give shallow advice. Let the mind do whatever it does.

The relationship cannot be need-based, I don’t want to have sex, I don’t wanna talk over...

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reveiws

ZOLO -

  • People initially learning fast but then later become stagnant.
  • Would like people to take initiative.
  • Prefer people to be deeper in one technology, also wants them to be polyglot not sticking to java ( seems contradictory )
  • Nice if kids can write more maintainable code but also expect that it will take them some experience.
  • Prefers Java over nodeJs and don’t care so much about unit testing.
  • Struggling with whether to invest and how to keep people to stay in the company.
  • Make a good suggestion to make kids read open source project to understand maintainability aspect.

MOBISY -

  • Wants to hire people for repetitive jobs or maintaining lagacy code.
  • A lot of focus on academics, heavily biased to hire from IIIT and NIT.
  • Advising to train people on electives
    • Want CSS and QA.
    • Work is basically customizing the product for the client, changing CSS and adding some small feature...

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Rules of gamification and gamify the relationship.

Role playing -
In a game like mortal combat sholine monk

  • there is a story but you do not see the end, story unfold as far as you unfold
  • the character progressively becomes stronger. gain more power and moves.
  • the first phase of the game you discover your power and that makes you happy then you use that power against other people. with unfolding stories, the enemies are replaced with a stronger opponent.
  • there are some main villains in between.
  • there is a happy path but when you roam around you find treasures.
  • there are some friends you find along the way.
  • there are generally clear goals, you need to kill the villain or bunch of people.
  • sometime certain gates will only open when you have learned a certain move
  • what makes it even best when you play in 2 players.
  • a monotonus game is safe where you know all the possibilities but it becomes lifeless

Life is exactly like that, a...

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