joint families. In India those who have joint families – I live with siblings and parents in a multi-floor house with a floor for each sibling family. We party, visit temples and celebrate festivals/holidays together and don't need anyone else to join us.
We also catch diseases together and help each other out during such times.
It was conscious decision to remain together and not something we inheritted.
Since last year, I've been changing course of my business to more product driven than consultancy. This has naturally put me into situations of real stress that causes churning in the stomach. The feeling stays for days if not dealt. ON couple of occasions I've successfully eliminated it using the Black Lotus app [0] RARE framework [1]. In the first instance, I chose the goal of being mindful and being stress free for the other. It combines a guided meditation specific for the goal, a breathing exercise, a RAK and some other tiny activities that should not take more than 20-30 minutes a day – but are really powerful.
In another occasion, I reflected on the cause of the stress holding conversation with the mind (sitting in meditative cross-legged pose) – what the worse can happen, what are other options etc. etc., and the stress subsided. Basically thoughts are also a form of energy which needs to be released. Either you can channelize them with good meditation or spent them with the bad one, in both cases you do get to feel relax. If you don't do either of these, you end up feeling restless and the more time they remain in your system the more damage they cause.
When we do a selfless act we experience the joy from our soul – that's what we're truly are: an eternal, complete drop in the infinite ocean of pure consciousness. Our ego (which makes us feel that we're separate from others) binds us in layers and layers of conditioning, of labels and engages us in selfish acts, which only brings suffering and stress. Read about this discourse from Buddha to understand what we're missing – The Fruits of the Contemplative Life: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/DN/DN02.html
When you're operating such massive services, at minimum you should protect the admin accounts not just with 2FA, but also with IP firewall. Looks like both were missing from here ...
Last month I read an interesting use-case of AR which helped in setting up air handling systems for newly setup hospitals in China Wuhan by a German technician using AR technology of an Indian start-up here https://www.business-standard.com/article/technology/here-s-...
So yes, I do agree that such specific purpose apps definitely validates and advances a new technology like AR.