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They say "Data is new oil ". Today everybody have smart phone aka a full fledged computer in their hand networked with many other devices. Everyone is online 24 X 7. And all companies want to know what their existing and potential customers are up-to.  They are using AI and ML techniques to study their habits, patterns, consumption patterns, search queries and many more that may be we are not aware of😀 . This data is consumed by AI ML models created based on some algorithms to predict interests of person and what in future they may want to order, see, purchase, learn, wear, go-to, maintain, hospitalized and what not! This is done of-course to increase profits of these companies and bring comfort to their customers but is it happening really? Are these algorithms understand the mind ? Is it ruining the excitement in unpredictability of life, newness, surprises? Is it making people tunnel visioned? These are the questions that comes to my mind whenever I find myself surrounded...

Hello folks.....I am writing this post after 3 years on the blogger. Last time when I wrote post, it was a different world. Three years seems small number if we notice how world has evolved. But in the fast changing current times three years is huge gap. Really it's all relative in this world. And relativity matters. Anyway I don't want to enter that territory now. Sometime later may be....😉 I am writing from India and in last three to four years, data revolution has happened in India. Before three years I and many of us were using  1GB data per month. Now we are using at-least 2GB data per day. In my case its  5 GB average data per day.  This has big impact on society. Many people have smart phones in their hand and with availability of practically unlimited data at your service, people are free to explore the world. They are listening, reading, viewing, sharing much more. It has created new industries, opportunities and of-course new challenges as well. As usual, any ...

As I said in my last post I will be exploring Stockholm and writing more about it. I feel the best way to explore any city is to walk on the roads of the city. This  presents the real picture of city. So I started my walk on Friday evening after office. From my hotel window I could see water and small boats. I thought I should go there to get some good pictures. So I started walking in that direction. The area is called Riddarholmen. The Swedish names are difficult. I don't understand how to pronounce it. And even if I pronounce it, I am sure it don't sound correctly the way  it should be. During the walk I got some good pictures. I could see some nice buildings, architectures, I captured it in my camera. There is small harbor, I walked around it for some time. It's a very nice place for spending evening. There was less crowd. From this place there is very good view of some Palace situated on the hills nearby across the water and city town hall on the other side. Very ve...

Wow  this year I am already starting for another country after Perth. In Europe after three years...to Stockholm Sweden. I hope everything will be great at work and other. Good news is I don't have to start from Mumbai. I can take flight to Stockholm from Pune via Delhi. I recently heard that Pune airport stands at 9th rank in service. Well I like the service. People/staff was helpful. All sign boards were at place. Good job Pune. Delhi airport I must say is great. It is neat and clean. It is huge. It looks like airport of India's capital.  I have seen some airports in the world and in India and I can say this is one of the best airports. Our flight took path over Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Estonia and so on. We always hear about Afghanistan many news. While I was in school I learnt about Afghanistan how it has difficult terrain with just mountains. I was able to witness it this time. For many hundreds of kilometers I was just able to see dry Rocky ...

I started this blog to express my views, experience of the world and my world. I don't want to make it travel blog but many times I travel to some places and I cannot resist myself to write about it. I recently came to Perth, Australia. This is my first journey towards East side of India or Australian continent. I came by Mumbai - Singapore - Perth. At first I must say Mumbai airport is very good. I can compare it with any other great airports of the world. Processes are smooth, no confusion at any point. Well done Mumbai. Flight from Mumbai to Singapore was great. At the first time I saw Mumbai from top. It looks cool although, there is big slum area near airport. It does not look good. But, Queen's necklace, Bandra Worli sea link looks awesome. When you see something from top, you get a complete different perpective. We suddenly realize that there are other dimensions to the world. Ok let me not get started on philosophy. The flight to Singapore was cool. After cros...

Recently there was a two month long event happened in my workplace. Two month is too big for an event but it was great. It was a competition of walking or Walkathon. So?  what is great about walkathon?  It's common now a days and happens everywhere. Well, but it happened in my company, it was two months long and it was executed with help of digital technology (supporting Digital India Drive 😀) and most importantly I participated in it 😋 and no...I did not win :( but I participated and walked 5.5 Lacs steps, around 335 Kilometers. This may not be accurate, but even with 10% error, it will be 300 Kms. Wow. Winners completed around 15 Lacs steps and 900 Kms. It was organized by my company in cooperation with another fitness club. We used google fit for measuring steps. And one another application for teams formation, and statistics. Here is it how it happened... All the employees of the company were divided in 12 groups, one Capton was selected for each team. And competiti...

For last two weeks I am coming to office at 5.30 AM. Yes 5.30 AM. No, I am not working in night shift or any shift. Its just that my company needs me to come at this time for some days to attend some meetings. Initially I was freaked, when I was asked to come office at 5.30. I was like, are you OK man? But then, I agreed unwillingly. If I have to attend meeting at 5.30, I have to get up at 4.15 AM , max 4.30 AM, duff  WTF. And worst part, its not just me, even my wife have to get up too. I need to get lunch outside for all these days. And, it is not that I can sleep early at night thanks to my kids. So I end up having less sleep. Well I am not writing this post to put up my complaints..ok let me share bright side of it too. Thanks to all these meetings, I am learning lot in totally new domain/area. I am getting huge knowledge and at the same time I am becoming a unique person who hold knowledge in two or more domains. So my value as a professional is increasing, globally. I am...