Lifestyle
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Dopamine - The MOTIVATIONAL chemical
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Oxytocin - The CONNECTION chemical
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Serotonin - The MOOD & ENERGY chemical
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Endorphins - The DE-STRESSING chemical
- Don’t force teenagers to wake up early. It’s counter productive
- Consider how long it takes for coffee to flush out from our body before thinking of another shot
- Lost sleep hours cannot be compensated with longer sleeps
A father’s past and a daughter’s imagination, sparked by 32K of memory
From Bangalore’s hand-etched circuits to RC2014 kits — a journey rewired
On the 20th of September 2025, my daughter and I spent a day at the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) in Bletchley Park for the RC2014 assembly event. It was, without exaggeration, one of the most special visits I’ve ever made to the museum—and I’ve been there countless times.
A Place That Never Loses Its Charm
My first visit to Bletchley Park was back in 2008. Tickets were just a few pounds then, and I still remember seeing the Colossus machine rebuilt and working fine. Ever since, TNMOC has been inseparable from my visits to Bletchley Park—no trip ever felt complete without stepping into those rooms filled with the hum of history.
There’s a personal thread here too. My parents and sister once stood in the middle of the World War II experience at Bletchley, a powerful reminder of how computing and codebreaking shaped the course of history. Later, during my time at Elastacloud, I visited the museum many times—sometimes for executive meetings, sometimes simply out of that enduring geeky connection.
Back to My Roots in Electronics
Two friends on a bench
A lot of thinking happened on the daily walks to this place during Covid-19. Revisiting it on a quiet evening brings back similar thoughts and experiences.
The DOSE Effect
Finished reading: The DOSE Effect by Tj Power 📚
The four chemicals:
The Grand Anaicut Canal
I had [written](Technology Shapes Society: From Kallanai to AI, A Personal Story www.linkedin.com/pulse/tec…) about how this British built canal transformed and levelled the cultural and economic scene of Kaveri delta region of Thanjavur.
Here is a picture of that canal still being used to that effect and some images from the plantation of paddy for the new season.
Cloud Mesh
The Courage to Be Happy
Finished reading: The Courage to Be Happy by Ichiro Kishimi 📚
My fav topics
Life begins from incompleteness Civilisation is a product of the need to compensate for the biological weakness of the human being, and the history of the human race is the history of triumphing over its inferiority.
How many close friends do you have You cannot talk frankly about everything with a normal friend? Why can’t you take off the mask when you are with a “normal” friend.
From an ‘Art of Being Loved’ towards an ‘Art of Loving’ It is difficult to be loved by another person. But loving another person is a task of far greater difficulty
The Courage to Be Disliked
Finished reading: The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi 📚
Some of my fav bits of wisdom from the book:
You’re the only one worrying about your appearance
Philosopher: Earlier didn’t your say, “I can’t celebrate other people’s happiness with all my heart'? You think of interpersonal relationships as competition; you perceive other people’s happiness as ‘my defeat’ and that is why you can’t celebrate it.
Overcoming the tasks that face you in life
Philosopher: The interpersonal relationships that a single individual has no choice but to confront when attempting to live as a social being - these are the life tasks. They are indeed tasks in the sense that one has no choice but to confront them. Philosopher: First, let’s look at the tasks of work. Interpersonal relationships of work have the easy-to-understand common objective of obtaining good results, so people can cooperate even if they don’t always get along, and to some extent they have not choice but to cooperate. And as long as a relationship if formed solely on the basis of work, it will go back to being a relationship with an outsider when working hours are over or one changes jobs.
How to separate tasks
Philosopher: One does not intrude on other people’s tasks. That’s all. Youth: Hmm. I don’t really get it. In the first place, how can you tell whose task it is? Philosopher: There is a simple way to tell whose task it is. Think, Who ultimately is going to receive the end result brought about by the choice that is made?
It’s a fantastic feeling to end the day by writing the journal using Hero Fountain Pen.
A KISS Wedding: A Refreshing Reminder of the Power of Simplicity
Why We Sleep
Finished reading: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker 📚
Biggest learnings:
No drone in sight this time, but next time for sure!
There is something satisfying about growing crops. Despite the complexity and uncertainty involved in it, we have farmers (with big and small farms) still farming. The pace of change in farming is also accelerating. Due to lack of labour, famers are forced to use technology to continue the endeavour. In my recent visit to my village, I heard of a business who is renting drones to be used in farms. Could not get it to see in action this time, but hoping to make use of it during next harvest. Here are some photos of the paddy fields from my recent visit.
A nursery bed in preparation of next season plantation:
The current season crop nearly ready for harvest:
The farmer - Working From Home:
Back to formal education
Oh…it is a awesome feeling to go back to school to study.
I am now enjoying what I had been waiting for nearly 1 year. I am devoting my full time to books and that too on .NET books which makes me feel good.
But, it is not easy to go back to full time study after working in the industry. The contrast is in the case of university, we tend to be very consious about what we are learning. In the industry the learning process is overall and not in depth. So, learning during working is remembered more than the learning at university. I could realize this during my first week of my classes in The University of Hull where I am in the .NET MSc in Distributed Systems Development course. I came to know about this course through a blog post which i am not managing to trace back. And now, I am just doing the kind of stuff I’ve wanting to do in the past. Some cool low level compiler stuff upto using xml web services.