A good friend of Socrates, once asked the Oracle at Delphi “Is anyone wiser than Socrates?” The Oracle answered “No one”.

Socrates was greatly puzzled by the answer as he was sure that he was not the wisest. In an attempt to prove himself correct, he toured Athens up and down, talking to the wisest and most capable people, hoping to find someone wiser than he was.

What he found was that poets didn’t know why their words moved people, craftsmen only knew how to master their trade and not much else, and politicians thought they were wise but didn’t…

I have always been bad at talking to people, be it to strangers, or to distant relatives, or in meetings. I am a man of very few words. Once I am done with “Hello, how are you,” I struggle to find topics to sustain the conversation.

And it's not that I do not want to, I just can’t. I go to parties and I am mostly restrained, standing in one corner. I go to meetings and I am mostly silent. I am scared of being proved wrong, I am afraid of being perceived as an idiot. When someone asks me…

I believe everyone can learn to code. And like any other field, the most important thing you need is hard work and dedication.

In Dan Brown’s masterclass, he explains the importance of “Protecting the Process”. That means you need to focus on creating and preserving the process of working on your goals every day. If you want to be a writer, get up and write every day. If you want to be a tennis player, protect the process of playing every day. And similarly, if you want to learn to program, write code every day.

Here are some websites that…

Who says that you need to practice yourself before preaching. Recently I saw an article on Medium that said — “How to get 1000 followers in a month”. I checked the author and he himself had 15 followers.

Preaching is something I am very good at, and something I am proud of. The other day I saw a woman walking a bit bent. I went over and explained some postures for a better back. I even explained medical options such as an X-ray, to check for fractures or broken bones. or maybe an in-depth imaging test, such as an MRI…

If you Google “World's Happiest Man”, the name Matthieu Ricard pops up.

Software Engineers are a unique brand of people. While most of them are normal human beings, some love doing things differently. If you give these rare species a problem to solve, they will bang their head to find the optimal solution. You will find them walking from Point A to Point B not in a random fashion, but following the shortest path by using Dijkstra's algorithm.

What is your idea of a perfect date ?

DD/MM/YYYY. The other formats are a bit confusing.

That’s how some of us look at things.

While there are multiple ways to identify the types…

I am 35 and I am overweight. My cholesterol levels are touching the danger zone. My friends think I am not serious enough, that I am a couch potato, but that is so not true. I follow a healthy diet, do regular exercise, and still, that damn weight does not bother to go down. I am forced to believe that my body is different — there cannot be any other reason.

Some people do not add weight regardless of what they put in their mouth. I envy them so much. A couple of days back, I was walking through downtown…

Gatling is a highly capable load testing tool based on Scala and built for high performance. It uses Akka Actors for simulating a huge load. By default, it supports the following:

Inherently, Gatling comes with a great support of the HTTP protocol that makes it a tool of choice for load testing any HTTP server. It also supports WebSockets, JMS, etc. Other protocols are also supported by community plugins.

The getting started documentation on the Gatling website is pretty decent. It involves downloading a zip file, then running a BAT or SH script to launch Gatling. You can then select…