Alok Chaturvedi

Author: Alok Chaturvedi

  • Business Mindset

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    Business is one of those words that have both positive and negative connotations attached to it. There are believe system that see businesses as evil or monstrous. I may not like to justify if business is evil or good because all I know for sure is that business is necessary, because of just one simple…

  • Power to Change

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    Exactly, two years ago, in the February of 2024, two major assignments came my way. I was assigned to an onsite project in Pune, and I was assigned into a matrimonial relationship. Initially I was excited for both, however very soon one of the assignments started to haunt my waking world. Through the ordeal, I…

  • All Hail Linux:2: Finding your Way

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    Objective Through this chapter, I will teach you to be slight comfortable with Linux GUI and Terminal. I will cover basic command like ls, cp, mv, cd etc. show that you can draw parallel to GUI based action to command based action. GNOME Desktop Environment(Linux) Getting around in your GUI is very straight forward. You…

  • All Hail Linux:1: Getting Started

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    The Linux System Administrator My first encounter with Unix like command environment was in college computer lab. I was awestruck by a completely different way of using computers, but it was 6 years later that I became fully fledged Unix / Linux user. My first laptop crashed due to overhitting and coincidently, just 2 months…

  • Jinja for DBT

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    Jinja Jinja is a templeting framework built in python which goes beyond simple usage of fstring in python to generate dynamic strings.Quite often than not, we need our string to be populate during runtime, for example a welcome message like, “Hello John” for John and “Hello Jen Doe” for Jen Doe. Programmatically it’s not a…

  • Journey to Puri: A Heritage Trip

    Journey to Puri: A Heritage Trip

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    During the month of February, this year (2025), I went to Puri with my family. It was one of the pleasant experiences of my life if not the best experience. The trip was packed with cultural experiences, beach experiences, historical experiences and a lot more. A trip like this is not only refreshing but also…

  • The Higher Truth: Beyond Simplified Answers

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    One day, not long ago, I saw a group of MBA students coming out of an insignificant Private College in Pune. The sight was rather painful for me to watch because it reminded me of the failing state of our Education System. I suddenly realized that there is a clear similarity between these educational Institutions…

  • My Newfound Thinking Cap

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    I am often stuck on some problem in my work as a software developer, while other times I am unable to think of a topic to write about on my blog. In such moments, I feel the need for a thinking cap. Recently, I realized that I had the thinking cap all along and not…

  • Don’t You See? I am Trying to Save You

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    It was a great winter month, but more importantly it was a month of many good news for the people living in the lost village of Kokara in the state of Odisha, India; for finally they have been discovered by concrete road, electricity and the rest of the world. Kokara was cut off from the…

  • Vicariously Unliving

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    These days I am doing a lot of rethinking, and I would credit it to Adam Grant, for his book ‘Think Again’ inspired me. A lot of this rethinking is directed towards the way I live my life. I have always loved and enjoyed a good story, either via books or via moving pictures. Now…