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I am reading an excellent book "Late Bloomers" by Rich Karlgard. I came across a point mentioned by Rich which triggered a lot of thoughts in my mind. He mentioned : "Old people take time to recall things because the more information we store, the longer it takes to retrieve information". This is an interesting insight which triggered many more questions in my mind. 1. Should we avoid dumping unnecessary information into our head ? Yes, of course. I believe this will limit the overall information in our mind and help us with faster retrieval of information. So avoiding the nonsensical videos on Insta, FB, YouTube is indeed a good thing. A plan has to be put in place regarding consumption of posts on FB, web series on OTT platforms, televisions shows, movies, messaging platforms, news on Twitter or any news platform for that matter. The plan should help us decide on what can be avoided completely and what can be consumed in moderation. These are the times of informat...

This is a story from one of my previous organization. Almost all engineers were frustrated by the machines they were working on. The common problems that everyone faced: Extremely slow boot up (Minimum 20-30 minutes just for booting up) Unable to run multiple applications e.g. cannot open two instances of an IDE Machines freezing during certain hours of the day (when the security scan starts) Builds taking light years Unplanned and forced updates The dreaded blue screen Extremely heavy laptops If I calculate the loss only due to boot up time.  30 minutes per day * 4000 engineers = 2000 hours lost per day. I have not even calculated the loss due to machines freezing, longer builds, unplanned updates, blue screens. Imagine how agitated the engineers might have felt. They lost precious hours of the day, having a severe impact on productivity. What would have it felt like ? when someone got into a flow e.g. coding / testing / debugging and then he / she was unable to proceed, they were...