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Mother's blessings

I've been applying for various job roles of late. To each employer, I have said I'm willing to travel if required. Or even to relocate.

I have worked in a new city in the past. But don't know how viable it will be if I take up a job in Bangalore or Chennai for instance.

Regular access to mother's love and her blessings in person is one prized commodity, not to be undervalued. Having a great job or a business is another great thing for life. Being able to involve with and see your children grow is also a big thing for life.

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Message from me to Amit Pathak 1997

Date: 23-04-2021

To,

Amit Pathak

R/O Ganga Bhawan

IIT Roorkee, Roorkee

Time: May 1997

I know how you have reached here. I know how hard you worked last year and the year before that to first get admitted to IIT Roorkee and then getting a branch change to finally reach Electrical Engineering.

But I want you to realize and know that something momentous will happen with your life over the next few years. You will be exposed to Electrical Engineering.

I know you have many mixed feeling about this. I know that growing up you used to think that maybe you should have taken up commerce after 10th class and maybe you should have taken up arts. I know that you got frustrated and depressed several times during the years of preparations for the Engineering entrance exams.

I know that growing up, you heard and remembered that your brother Mayank is better at making and repairing things. I know that growing up your mom always said about you that you were healthy but your brother was the smarter one.

I know that your school DPS Noida did a great job of teaching you languages in addition to Math and Science. These things will help you in these years to participate in and shine in the Literary sector activities. I know that your leadership skills will shine out in these years at Roorkee and people will remember you so.

The only thing I want you to know and I want to press upon you to understand is that you are getting exposed to many concepts and techniques and skills. I want you advise you to get to focus on your subjects each term and imbibe what is being taught to the best of your ability.

I want you to be technically proficient. If you don't focus on this you will fall back on mediocrity. That is not the worse part - you will not have learnt anything of value for the life ahead.

I want that you know how to design Electronic Circuits. Understand the role that each component plays. I want you to be able to design a whole circuit by yourself. I want you to target to build some good electronic projects before you graduate.

Develop this as a hobby. It will help you later on.

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What makes Marwari businessmen so successful? This video from Vivek Bindra attempts to explore the reasons.

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Amazing message by Bollywood actor Jackie Shroff. Such wisdom in his words. 

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Embrace your pain and suffering. It is life's way to develop resilience. Pain is your friend.

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Watch "The BEST WAY TO START WORKING OUT FOR BEGINNERS" on YouTube

Beginner Calisthenics Workout:

Pull up (10 reps)

Push up (15 reps)

Bench Dips (15 reps)

Squats (20 reps)

Bolt hold (45 seconds)

Hand stand (30 Seconds)

Pike Push-up (10 reps)

Hanging (1 minute)

Repeat 3 more rounds making total 4 sets.

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If you put efforts into something, you start loving it.

Consider this Brass Jug. In Indian traditional medicine, lots of value is attached to the medicinal properties of water stored overnight in a brass pot.

Brass being brass, it oxidizes in contact with the air and the originally shiny surface gives way to a darker and lacklustre surface.

The way to maintain it is to wash and scrub it everyday. I started washing it each day starting around a week ago.

Now when I look at my brass mug I feel satisfied and feel a greater fondness for it

Some of the spots are gone, some surfaces are a bit clearer now after regular scrubbing.

Embuing my efforts into it make me love it more. I think it is because I am more involved in this.

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This is such a fantastic and inspiring video. The speaker lucidly explains how breaking large work items into smaller sizes has such a remarkable impact in eventual success and achievement. 

It happens so often - the tedious contract which is 21 pages long and written in single spaced 9 font size and really requires you to think and go back and forth will be so hard to digest. 

This gentlemen’s discipline is to break it up into small and manageable chunks. Quite obvious and common place you may say?

However simple does not equate to easily implemented. This persons genius is in setting up large audacious goals and breaking them into small chunks and keep moving forward one step at a time.

Still feels that there is nothing new to this? Maybe I am not able to explain it well enough. I suggest to watch this video. Maybe 2 or 3 times if you like the message enough. 

And then take a printout of the tree or the mountain covered in knitted wool. Stick it on a wall. That may serve as a reminder. 

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The nature of human reality is defined by what we learn from our senses. What we sense, shapes our thoughts and emotions, and that by extension is our experience of reality.

However, our thoughts and emotions are not the complete reality. They are a tiniest speck in the overall reality soup. They are transient and short-lived in nature. However, this does not prevent them from having out-sized impacts.

"This too shall pass" is an effective reminder to refocus us back on the spirit and not get totally carried away by the ebb and rise of various emotions.

Here is how one may apply this in day to day life: Everytime I say "This too shall pass", I am looking at the world and my experience as a somewhat detached "observer". This act of taking the "observer" position implies going one level back within us and creating internal distance.

The act of observation relaxes the grip of emotional states on us and puts us in a better vantage point to solve our problems from. Seeing yourself experiencing that particular emotion, fear or jealously for instance, helps to actually diffuse it and move on with life more productively and with less friction.

That, to me, is the real source of power of this short phrase, "This too shall pass."

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I was reading Quora searching for a post on something to explain me a meaning of a Sikh Ardas.

I landed on a answer written by one Angad Singh. From his Bio, I got this great link on early startups for non technical folks

http://benogle.com/2013/03/25/an-idea-for-non-technical-founders-service-first-business.html

Happy reading n happy hustling!!

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Playbook for Hardware Brand Kickstart

I read this post and found it very informative: https://www.quora.com/Id-like-to-start-a-smartphone-company-Where-do-I-start-and-how-much-would-it-cost-me/answer/Sanjeeva-Shukla?ch=3&share=a28c54d9&srid=XVy4 FULL TEXT: Start off by a decision to begin by importing phone-stocks, branding them and then trading/ selling Target smaller towns and villages of one promising state closest to you, or in your state - I feel MP, UP, AP will be good. Pilot your project by importing 1000 units from China, which you will sell in the price range INR 4000 - 8000, at a margin of about 30%, and marketing them in just a handful of markets in one lication/ region - concentrated. You may have to.go to China to meet a manufacturer and finalize a deal in which they will give you phones with your brand stamped and packaged. That means investments in stocks to the tune of around INR 50 lacs. Add another 10 lacs to your expenses in running around and some workers to sell the stuff. Plus another INR 5-10 lacs in branding and packaging design and development. Total investments of around 80 lacs. Develop a brand identity with a fine name etc., and a box packaging before going to China. Also, tie up with phone repair centers in the region you are piloting and strike a deal for a charge per warranty that they have to service. You should give yourself one business quarter to sell off these 1000 units. That would help you make around 12-15 lacs of profits. In the next three quarters, Repeat 3 such pilots in 3 other concentrated locations in the same state as the first pilot. After a year, you should be left with profit-reserves of around INR 40-45 lacs. Now start investing in formalizing your office presence and sales team in this target state. Invite partners and investors. Build brand in this target region to knock.off players like Intex, Karrbon, Micromax and others - through heavy, concentrated below-the-line activities and promotions. Repeat pilots in these four locations with double the numbers - that means selling 2000 phones in a quarter. In fact, you may even like to increase your targets and move into newer areas depending on the response. Edit: I have received hundreds of emails in the last 6 months asking help for starting out a phone business. Here's a warning: if you are reading this answer in 2018, please do appreciate this is an old answer, and the entire landscape has changed. The holes on the market I saw in 2015 are simply all filled out. Even smaller towns of underdeveloped countries are inundated with Chinese phones. Getting into phone-business in a startup mode isn't easy at all now - if not entirely impossible. Unless you're funded really well.

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Such a massive boost in Mobile phone assembly capacity in India! From 60 million units in 2014 to 290 million units by 2020, can we construe this as a big win for make in India campaign?

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How Indian auto companies and e-commerce tried to work together but then decided that it was not meant to be.

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SHELLIOS PUROS Banner Design

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Interesting Marketplace.....only discusses about the buying and selling marketplace...no mention of other related industries like

- construction

- construction technology / collaboration / project management

- Facilities management

- Crowdfunding and financing

- smart homes and automation