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This is the second instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (September 6, 2020). Some interesting news the past week Monday’s news feed is filled with Chinese law that hurdles sale of TikTok to American entity. Chinese officials revised rules that govern the sale of certain kinds of technology to foreign buyers. The updated list includes data processing, speech and text recognition — the kind of tech that experts say is used by the popular short-form video app.

Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (August 30, 2020). Positive News Apart from recoveries, I don’t see any positive news in the last week. As of 29th, the number of recovery is 2.712M, with total cases at 3.539M. Recovery rate @ 75+ Negative News As if the COVID-19 pandemic is not enough, the state of Assam is worst affected by flood in Brahmaputra river.

In this write up, the hostel is used to indicate not only limited to the boarding school but also staying away from parents. TL;DR You must live in a hostel. All through these years since your arrival, you’ve a safety net named parents. They cleaned your shitty bums, they fed you with the food that are handpicked for your well-being, they were there when you tumbled down, they taught you how to walk, eat, pee et al.

Social Media is a petri dish, culturing cultured and uncultured humans in real time. Based on your followers and taste you develop your own bubble, reinforce the bubble’s collective thought and at some point of time you’ll start believing it. One way to not get lost in the rabbit hole is to think the collective thought (trending topic) is wrong and trying to justify it. Then I came across this ‘-pride’ posts.

Emails became so much intertwined in our daily life. Whatever the internet service it be, eventually it comes to identifying you only through your email1. The newsletters used to be my source of information. I gradually unsubscribed to newsletters and marked the providers as important in my everyday feed of Twitter & Facebook. There is a couple of first order effects, I inadvertently started following so many users related to the news feeds The email inbox, once used to be zero inbox turned out to be filled with spams and filths Beyond First Order2

The future generations must be viewing this as a biggest psychological experiment, worst case scenario and the inhumane practice to save humanity and much more. This is COVID-19 lockdown. Lockdown was imposed on March 25th 2020. Being a social animal, we went through a lot. The ill effects of lockdown ranges from anxiety induced due to potential job loss - historic unemployment rate, potential downturn of investments in coming years, struggling to keep up with daily work-from-home with it’s own challenges.

My SO asked a curious question. I froze, like a Windows XP machine, couldn’t answer then. After the incident, for several nights, the question ran through in my head to decipher the answer. Let’s start with little about me . I like to read books. As of today, reading is one of the hobby for me. For her, reading is a boring chore, like majority around me. The question was simple and on to the point.

The relationship lasted for 2 years, 3 months, 11 days. Barring restroom moments, we were together all the time. I’m talking about my Pixel 2, which has provided me a wonderful experience on any electronics gadget that I’ve ever owned. There are few things, worth mentioning here, both positive & negative. Software-hardware, made for each other - Even though I haven’t used any flagship mobile till then, I feel P2 showed me how it feels when OS is made for hardware.

The outbreak is here. Turned into Pandemic, spreading across geographies without much of obstacles. The impact is felt in so many domains, from hospitals to hospitality, from tourism industry to ride-sharing. Governments are scrambling to slow down its spread. The corporates are equipping employees with work-from-home options. Unorganized sector is going for a toss. So, how could the COVID-19 affect the governing bodies? Late 2010s and the raise of Nationalists The Nationalists or Conservatives or Right wingers are in raise in the 2nd half of 2010s, across the world.

Last July marks the Quadrennial year working in an MNC. These years had taught me several valuable lessons. Learnt either from first-hand experience or learning from others action. What I learnt is that our fundamentals are flawed as several important things are not taught at young age. There are 2 important things that must be included in curriculum. Career vs. Job : In earlier generation, its pride to be working with an employer for long duration (say, in terms years or decades).