the dementor's pensieve

December 2016, 4 kids after a hectic month of job hunting aka placements, chilling with contraband realized they have 6 months of sponsored experimentation in front of them. So, after a month of slogging our way to get a job as early as possible #statusGamesOnCampus, we decided to think of startup ideas so that we can ditch the jobs. Over the course of next few months with tons of “tu beer hai” moments, around April, all batch mates were leaving the campus, we decided to tackle the problem of drone delivery.

Thinking about what to spend time on is something I have spent a lot of time on. (Notice the irony?) So over time, post tons of discussions, debates, arguments, I managed a framework for myself that reduces this to what problems I want to solve. Disclaimer: This is solely my opinion and how I see problems and a lot of it might seem to be from the feels of a problem rather than objective metrics.

2010 November if I recall correctly is when the first version of Technolympics was held. Tomorrow, 31 August, the 10th version will be held. Even cooler is we are attending it. Remotely since its all remote. And some of us are even judges ! FOMO as Motivation 2010, I along with a friend (Read: Saurabh Misra) were on a programming competition spree roaming across NCR skipping school (legally this time).

Obsessive Compulsive Note Taker Thats what I have evolved to over the years. I started (inspired from a friend) in 2012 who used to take notes for quizzing material and had a compilation built since 2006 which fascinated the fuck out of me. Then, as he aced quizzes from this, I saw the value it added. So, this FOMO drove me to start with notes for projects - how-tos, to-dos, progress and references.

Once upon a time an innocent guy who had inherited the VPN infrastructure had been bugged enough by a new joinee whose VPN was throwing tantrums. Deferring it for a day, he finally managed to start digging. If natural disasters across the country were not weird enough, now one specific call to azure docdb was failing with a TLS handshake failure through the VPN for only ONE guy out of 100+.

To be blogger since ‘94. ^That has been my status/description/go-to line to justify my procrastination and insecurity sound cool. But at some point, this had to change. <> So, what do I plan to write on? Anything that I think about, work on, matters to me, changes me or even I find it cool. Like this entire idea of starting to write and its manifestation in my head followed by reality.