why-so-conventional?

Why can’t a computer engineer always fix computer problems or an electrical engineer fix all kinds of electrical problems? Is it because most professionals tend to work more on the fancy stuff than on the basics? To succeed in their respective fields, each finds the need to evolve by adapting to the new/cutting-edge/innovative developments of his/her field. And in pursuing all of this, they keep moving away from the basics.

I guess most professionals do this. And they do it well. They excel at what they do daily, their niche skills become finer and finer and they compete with others within a subset of their domain.

I did the same. Until I came across an interesting project.

my travel pilaan..

Passionate people,

Enormous history,

Brilliant food,

Oh and yes a 5-letter country name starting with an I

i-m-patient..

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You begin to read a book and want to rush to the end. You are watching a movie and wish you could FF all the boring part/songs. You are watching sports/matches and sometimes wouldn’t mind just catching the highlights. You intend to give an exam and want to skip the prep effort. You are talking [...]

eclipse [the non astronomy one]…

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this last week a small village in bihar – targena – garnered a lot of interest all of a sudden… firangs with their fancy photographic instruments, astronomers with their study and scientific material and behind all of them, running late, our government babus scurrying to provide facilities to all… the village which apparently did [...]