VARUN JOSHI'S BLOGS

I see the sky dark, gleaming with stars bright, a breeze of air around, making me cold in the night. The tree nearby sways, moving side to side, where a screeching owl settles, taking hide. I pause and close my eyes to listen to that night- crickets adding their score, a rhythm hidden from sight. There’s an intruder here; a lapwing warns his friends that someone has arrived where their darkness blends. The owl or me who truly doesn’t belong? But then appears another patroller, siren-song, of police van cutting through the calm tonight, as bird-guards watching over their flight. I step back through pixelated netting, seeing clear, this borrowed world, this night I hold so dear, A plane crosses overhead with blinking light, another flock, another way to claim the night. I wave to travelers soaring through that sky, whether feathered wings or metal vessels fly, All share this canvas, all patrol and roam, the night stays still and calm, as I watch from home. The moon observes us all with p...

 I have participated in many speaking (elocution, speech, debate, oratory) competitions and had the opportunity to do anchoring on several occasions since my pre-primary classes and kept doing so till my primary grades and bagged prizes. Being a shy kid, people used to get amazed at how a shy kid like me could perform in such a fantastic way in front of a large audience. I loved to speak on stage. I remember memorising those speeches given by class teachers and presenting them on occasions/celebrations at school. As I grew older and moved to secondary class, I never hesitated to speak on stage, but I started to observe that I was getting behind in this game. I was just winning at surface levels (inter-school) competitions by memorization and just speaking that next day, but it never helped me go beyond this. I have now started to take a step back from these things. Years passed, and after the lockdown period ended, school started again, and a new activity of student-led classes and...

The battle being fought, unknown to the self. The constant trying to improve oneself must go on, not to quit, but reflect. Analyzing the situation with the 3 ancient forces according to the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita: 1. One pulls you towards the grave, a heavy magnetic inertia that thrives on my passivity. 2. Fever, a restless hunger that drives you to conquer but leaves you unable to sit in a room alone. 3. Clarity that feels like peace yet often becomes its own kind of cage. I found out that bad habits are hard to quit due to these forces. Hence, we should analyze and find out what can stop these forces and reduce their impact. It can be mindfulness, building a system, celebrating small victories, broadening our perspective, journaling, or praying. It can be making our needs clear, having a clear priority and a plan to follow, which must be realistic and actionable, and removing the fear of failure, for which we must take action and keep reflecting on the plan. The satisfaction in one ac...

I tried learning python watching youtube videos but later on I remembered few things and fogot others,I later found a github Repo made by a youtube creater that helps you learn python in 30 days and also provides a to-do list overview,roadmap of  30 days and learn it. Can Learn at your own pace even if want to revise some things. A day by day plan with exercise is made covering all concepts Check it here : link Check other blogs too

We live in an age of infinite stimulation. At any moment, you can scroll through social media, binge a new series, order fast food, or dive into a video game. Each of these activities triggers a release of dopamine the neurotransmitter often called the brain’s “reward chemical.” But here’s the thing: not all dopamine hits are created equal. The quality of your dopamine sources shapes the quality of your life. Some activities leave you energized, fulfilled, and motivated. Others leave you depleted, anxious, and craving more. Learning to choose your dopamine wisely might be one of the most important skills you can develop in the modern world. Bad and good habits are just your choices of dopamine. Understanding Dopamine: More Than Just Pleasure Dopamine isn’t simply about pleasure, though that’s part of its role. It’s fundamentally about motivation, anticipation, and reward-seeking behavior. When your brain releases dopamine, it’s saying, “This is worth pursuing. Do this again.” Over time...

Have you ever felt like the problems you’re solving are completely new? Like nobody before you has wrestled with the same logical puzzles, the same iterative thinking, the same “if this, then that” decision trees? I used to think programming was modern. Revolutionary. Ours. Then I learned about Donald Knuth’s discovery in 1972, and everything shifted. The Moment Everything Changed Knuth, legendary computer scientist and author of The Art of Computer Programming, was examining ancient clay tablets at Yale. These weren’t artifacts from some early computer age. They were from 1800 BCE. Eighteen hundred years before Christ. And they contained algorithms. Not just calculations. Not just answers. But procedures, step-by-step instructions with conditional logic. If-then statements. Loops. The same fundamental structures we use today when we code. The Babylonians had figured it out. Nearly 4,000 years ago, they were writing what we’d now call executable code. From “Why does this matter?” to “W...