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May 20, 2023 · 1 min

College Friends

College is a time when we cross each other’s paths in space and time. wildly different paths. Very close friends going for masters, friends going to different cities, batchmates whom you didn’t know but are now your colleague or they live near you. You may be in the same city or different cities, nevertheless your lives are different with very different paths. Why I emphasize a different path, it’s because we think we are very similar due to the times when our paths cross, but the non-crossing paths, the aspects of other’s lives we don’t know, their family background, socio-economic condition & other 1000 different things make the difference....

March 5, 2023 · 3 min

On learning to touch type

Study material I suggest the following websites for learning (which I had used personally) Typing club for small video lessons followed by short exercises to learn the theory. You can follow this till Basic Level 2 or so.. or till whereever you wish. typingbolt.com for personalized practice. It has short samples, teaches proper finger positioning visually. The sentences progressively keep getting harder as you type. Keybr.com is also good for similar practice....

November 28, 2022 · 2 min

How to Twitter?

Welcome comrade. So you finally joined Twitter? No? ok you decided to stop reading and RTing and finally post something? Great! Wait wait! you already have been here on the platform for some time, you are still welcome to read. I am here to fill you in with some ideas so that you can build upon them as this new experience unfolds. This is not a 0 to 100 follower guide or a growth hack guide....

November 16, 2022 · 15 min

Validation, interaction, manipulation, judgement

This can be found in forms of thread on Twitter here and here The Case Of Validation Getting validation for your work or your takes… from someone you admire is high likely to mean that they respect you a little bit more than earlier. This enables you to interact with them more easily. Validation is not always about dopamine hits or inflating your ego. The right amount of validation makes interactions easier....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min

2 minute Maggi with Naval

This is available as a Twitter thread (till the app survives) Making Maggi started taking exactly 2 minutes the day I finished reading the Almanack of Naval Ravikant. — Sankalp (@dejavucoder) March 25, 2022 Making Maggi started taking exactly 2 minutes the day I finished reading the Almanack of Naval Ravikant. A few days back it took me >= 10 minutes. But I noticed that Manas could make it in 2 minutes....

November 15, 2022 · 2 min

The Role of randomness in Thinking

You can read this post as a Twitter thread here I was solving an algorithmic problem recently. Not seen it before. Worked out some examples. Thought of a brute force solution. Brainstormed on possible methods. Tried to fit in some paradigms. Then slowly, converged towards an optimal solution. But this led me to think — Sankalp (@dejavucoder) February 15, 2022 The problem solving grind I was solving an unseen algorithmic problem on Leetcode recently....

November 14, 2022 · 4 min