I started running a especially early in the morning. All this was to prepare for a 10K (6.3 miles) run. The aim was to improve my time. I went from 56 mins to 50 mins and finally achieved a Personal best of 47 minutes in the event I trained for. I learnt a lot about discipline, running technique, nutrition and fitness tips. I am now preparing for a half marathon i.e 21K (13.1 miles) and aim to achieve a sub 2 hour finish. Planning to keep up the routine , train harder and hopefully get there.
Reading the conclusion of 'Decision against the operation'
> In the end, convinced that the political risks outweighed the possible benefits, he decided against the intervention.
I understand that it's convenient to question strategic decisions such as this in hindsight. However , it would be interesting to speculate what could have been the outcome of the wars i.e. First Indochina and Vietnam , had the operation been approved by the President, having turned the tide of the battle of Dien Bien Phu.
Today I ran a 10K (10 Kms) in 50 minutes. This was my second 10K, and saw a 6 mins improvement , since the last one , around a month back. 50 mins is still an average time , but an year back I thought was certainly impossible. This has inspired me to keep training , and get to a half marathon someday. Impossible now , but surely achievable in future.
I have no regrets as such on choosing this profession, since its been a passion since the very first time I saw a computer. The regret however, is doing this for over 6 years now and not having upgraded with a post graduate degree i.e either a MS or MBA. This gradually becomes a regret when I see my colleagues from engineering having moved on to higher or better positions financially.
Its essential in my opinion , for junior web developers to familiarize themselves with the excellent resources and forums existing on the web easily searchable via few keystrokes on google. In addition to just visiting these websites just to search for solutions, they should also try and contribute , to understand that software development requires a highly collaborative environment to solve some of the most complex problems out there. This applies to both online and offline, where crowd sourcing a problem enables us to look at it from different perspectives and get to the most optimal solutions. These skills , they need to start teaching in colleges.
I was thinking the exact same thing a few days back when I got my package delivered. With the volume of packages that get unpacked each day around the world, it is bewildering to think about the amount of waste bubble wrap and cardboard boxes that we throw away.
Learn new tech stacks , and get into Big data & ML. TO not be a generalist dev anymore, and get into either Amazon or Microsoft. May be find the right girl and get married. Lesser Netflix , more reading books and writing (blogs/Medium).Not to laze around on weekends and invest that time into building new skills and advance my career. As always lots of stuff to do and hope I can achieve the maximum possible till Jan 1 2019. Happy New Year HN !
I used to sleep usually on average 7 hrs when i worked the regular 10 am to 6pm shift. However , working 1 pm to 11 pm shift nowdays and tend to turn in much late than before however wake up earlier than 7 hrs to study for an exam that i am preparing for alongside. I I have observed my productivity in view of this routine to be at peak later in the day rather night when lesser to no distractions or people in office. However am trying to balance out my routine to get the magic number 7 hrs of sleep.
There is quite a popular magazine called 'Digit' here in India , which I have been following since around 2004 and it kind of made me the geek I am today and even choose the profession of software dev.