Last month had a lot of highlights. At work things went bad, more escalations. Burning midnight oil. Kid falling sick. Simply it was not a pleasant one.
I was wondering whether AI is to be embraced or shunned. Then later I came across a comparison of AI with Electricity. That made more sense. AI is a tool. A powerful tool. Either I can use it to become powerful enough to withstand the storm or get blown away.
What is a vice that’s being followed indiscriminately across age, language, or religion?
Procrastination.
It’s been with me forever. Whatever I plan for it goes for a toss. It’s all well and good and didn’t affect the day-to-day progress.
The AI.
I was planning to learn AI since 2018. Even before the GenAI became a commoners term. The thought that I would be somewhere else and be someone else if only I had spent time learning AI is still haunting me. That’s 8 years. I spend the majority time wasting watching TV shows and movies, instead.
I’m a Data Engineer and my day involves moving, cleaning the data around. The work is harmless as long as the requirements are well-defined. Some of the projects we take up comes with complete details. Some others come with some gaps, especially the hackathon-turned-projects.
I was part of data extraction team working towards a hackathon. This went well. The business is content and that leads to contract turning it into an actual project. During hackathon we used Excel files to fasten the process. But the production grade project should have API integrated and we worked towards it.
My line of work involves working with notebooks in most of the time. I hardly use VS code off late. I use copilot for fixing the errors and I’m not huge fan of vibe coding.
When today’s sprint ceremony goes slower than usual I got an idea on prototyping. The idea is simple - to have projects split across DE, visualization & AI. As I dont have access to PowerBi, I went with my preferred choice - D3JS.
The July 1 was celebrated as National Financial Freedom Day, in the US. Considering the fact that whatever the US does the rest of the world follows. So, lets talk about the financial freedom.
FI is different from FIRE. Financial freedom is a mystery. Retiring early is mystery wrapped in an enigma.
After completing the college we scattered across the geography, looking after our career path. We no longer able to connect with each other as like earlier. There were some commitments, duties to discharge and the distance grows between the friends, even phone calls reduced. But one weekend we gathered. There were visible discomfort among us. These are all irrelevant but one single quote from one of the guy, lets call him K.
The annual awkwardness is around the corner. The birthday is here. I was not celebrating birthdays since by 10th grade. I couldn’t recall the reason it could probably to avoid the spotlight. However with passing years I find more reason not to celebrate it in the conventional way.
Before the advent of Social apps, the birthdays used to be very personal. Only the people who really remembers my birthdays wishes me. Thanks to the reminder from the apps and social wishing it just compels us to wish the birthday. The wishes evolved into a chore.
One thing I admire about Obsidian is its Graph view. I was imagining how it will look like if we make a similar graph view with the blogposts, its categories, and tags.
The similar graph is available in the Logseq as well. I was going through the Logseq’s repos to understand how the graph was built. It was using clojure which is beyond my knowledge.
Yesterday I was talking to my friend about ways to accumulate tuition fees for kids. He suggested going with Chit funds, as they promise 12% returns. I was shocked to hear it from him. We have known each other for over a decade now. Through countless discussions on personal finance, we concluded long back that protecting money is as important as accumulating it. Chit funds are notorious in our society. During my schooldays, chit fund scams were all over the news every other week.
For those unfamiliar, Aadhaar is a universal identity card (or not). It is a biometric-based 12-digit unique number, more or less covers the entire Indian population.
Aadhaar translates to foundation or root. The Aadhaar number is essential for maintaining access to a bank account or a Demat account, mobile connection, and more. The number follows you like a shadow till death. Heck, the number won’t even leave you after death. You would need it at cremation center, then for the death certificate and for transferring your estate as well.