When you feel lazy or uninspired...

We all mostly feel like crashing, having a drink and relaxing whole day, who doesn't likes to relax right ?

But the thing is, time is something we underestimate, how many of you actually value your time ? Did you say you do ? look at the list below

1 Week - A holiday.

1 Day - Sleep it off, watch TV, lie around.

6 hours - A day out with friends.

3 hours - Movies/Series. (For some it may be longer, depending they watching it at home)

2 hours - Internet. (For some it may be longer)

1 hour - Gaming, Social networking. (For some it may be longer)

30 minutes - Time spent on phone calls (For some it may be longer)

15 minutes - nobody cares

1 minutes - no one cares like it doesn't exists.

I am not even going to write about "seconds"

So above list is a typical example of people utilizing their time, and those people are average. Stop being average, stop doing what everyone else is doing. Create your own life, your own lifestyle, your own rules, and make it all aligned with the time so that you have enough to spend with your loved ones and to achieve your goals.

Here’s a little tip I use when I feel like wasting time.

“Whenever you feel lazy or uninspired, just imagine your 80-year-old self is watching and judging HOW YOU SPEND YOUR DAY.”

The older we get, time seems to move quicker because everything happens in bigger time blocks. In grade school you had 45-min periods, a 15-min recess, a 30-min lunch, a 60-min basketball practice etc.

When we’re older we have 4-hour, part-time shifts, 3-hour college classes, 9-hour work days, 2 hours of daily commuting, etc. In adulthood our weeks, months and years often blend together in hindsight.

It’s incredibly easy for these large chunks of time that take up my day to wear me out. REMEMBER: There will be nights when you come home and are so exhausted that you’ll crash immediately.

On other nights when you have the option to either call it a day or use your last bits of energy to contribute something, ALWAYS choose the latter. Even if it’s just an extra paragraph you write, a chapter you read or an email you send. Those small tasks you tackle accumulate over time and will pay dividends sooner than you think.

If your 80-year-old self is watching you today, they’re envying you because you have the one precious resource that no amount of money will ever get them: time. So make the most of it. That way current you AND 80-year-old you can be proud of a life well utilized.

Vivek Choudhary

“Punctuality is the thief of time.” 

- Oscar Wilde 

How to find and manage huge file in your PC

We all have a bunch of stuff in our PCs, but when we get disk full error, we don't know whats taking that space.
So here's a utility software I have been using since a long time which helps a lot.
You can also watch my video on how it works.

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows.
Note: if you are looking for an alternative for Linux, you are looking for KDirStat (apt-get install kdirstat or apt-get install k4dirstat on Debian-derivatives) or QDirStat and for MacOS X it would be Disk Inventory X or GrandPerspective.

Please visit the WinDirStat blog for more up-to-date information about the program.

On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:

The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.

Link : https://windirstat.net/


Vivek Choudhary

13 Stupid Reasons Why (Spoilers)

So I marathoned the much talked about series nowadays 13 Reasons Why. The people are going bananas over this, it made me feel I should watch it too, but with my exams coming up on 1st June I thought I would watch it later but the hype was so much that I decided to get this over with.

So here's my analysis of why all reasons are stupid.

1. Tape subject: Justin Foley, for spreading a racy picture of Hannah along with a sexual rumor about their encounter.
I get it, he was clicking a picture, and the slide made it an upskirt pic and it got spread in the school. Can't say much about it but it's definitely not a reason to end your life.

2. Tape subject: Jessica Davis, mistakenly believed that Hannah was the reason for her breakup with Alex.
People are full of shit, they believe what they want to believe. Kick Jessica out and find new friends.
Humans no matter what age, deal with situations like this every now and then.

3. Tape subject: Alex Standall, for listing Hannah's ass as the best one in school to get Jessica Davis jealous so he could be more popular.
There were other girls on the list too. She should have fully ignored it like a normal person would do.

4. Tape subject: Tyler Down, for stalking Hannah and spreading her and Courtney's kiss photo around the school.
This was exaggerated, shut the window or drapes or whatever, it's your bedroom.

5. Tape subject: Courtney Crimson, for throwing Hannah under the bus to avoid being discovered as one of the people in the kiss photo.
Someone told a lie about you, it happens every day with almost all of us.

6. Tape subject: Marcus Cole, for humiliating Hannah in public on their One Dollar Valentine's date.
A guy bringing guys with him on a date, seriously girl "get a clue and walk away".

7. Tape subject: Zach Dempsey, for stealing the "positive notes" destined for Hannah in Communications class out of revenge for her rejecting him and his help.
You told him to go away way too loudly and among the entire school. He was humiliated and did a childish thing of stealing notes, totally harmless.

8. Tape subject: Ryan Shaver, for stealing a poem she wrote noting her personal problems and publishing it in the school newspaper without her consent.
Would you allow someone access to your personal journal, or diary without fully knowing them?

9. Tape subject: Justin Foley, for allowing Bryce to rape his girlfriend Jessica.
The Subject should be Justin and Hannah allowing to let rape to happen, she could have come out and tried to make it stop. Hannah did nothing but sat there like a spectator.

10. Tape subject: Sheri Holland, for abandoning Hannah after she crashed her car into a stop sign, which later caused the death of another student.
Seriously, that accident was meant to happen, do you know the coke can you threw on the highway caused an accident? The razor blade you threw in the garbage killed an animal? The Stone you threw off a cliff landed on someone's head? It was totally natural.

11. Tape subject: Clay Jensen, for leaving Hannah at her request after the pair almost had sex. However, Hannah notes that Clay does not deserve to be on the tapes (she confesses her admiration and fondness of him) but she says she added him because he knew many of the people who bullied her and she wanted him to know the full story.
Clay was a great guy, what do you expect after you tell a guy to get out several times? Do you want him to read your mind?

12. Tape subject: Bryce Walker, for raping Hannah in his hot tub.
Seriously how can you end up in a tub with a guy who raped someone in front of you and you still do not leave the hot tub at that very instant? Put any girl in that hot tub instead of Hannah and see how she kicks ass, at least she would call for help.

13. Tape subject: Mr. Porter, for not believing Hannah was suicidal and for not giving her proper help.
Its a rape, what will the school do? It happened outside the school, go to the police or your parents you dumb ass. Though I admit Porter acted like a dick here.



Vivek Choudhary
Really disappointed, not getting my 13 hours back.

John Wick : Wick v/s High Table

When I first saw John Wick, it blew my mind.
The concept, characters, portrayal, cars, The Continental, basically everything about it.

We like things that are well organized, this movie shows organized crime and it briefly describes the concept of respect. The conversations they have in the movie are well thought out and brilliantly written.

The First installment shows how John is forced back in the crime world to avenge his dog's death which was a gift from his departed wife. We can easily relate that the actions he took were not just because of that dog but because the Character was angry at why She had to die as he is the one who has committed many sins.

In the second installment, it is shown that he cannot go back to the normal world. And the quote from the first movie "I once saw him killing 3 men in a bar with a fucking pencil" comes to life when he actually kills men using a pencil, it was brutal.

The Cop Jimmy repeats his dialogue "You working again John"
While John also repeats his dialogue "Goodnight Jimmy"

I am assuming we might see  more of the Receptionist too "If you'd be so inclined Mr. Wick"

John Wick 2 ends with a massive cliffhanger and we surely can expect a great 3rd installment to the series.

Here's what the makers have to say about John Wick 3
“We want, not so much to go bigger on the third one, but to show you more of the intricacies of the world… I feel like there are all these different subtleties that I skipped over in Number Two, that I’d like to go back to on [chapter three] and show you the inner workings of different parts of New York. So rather than massive set pieces, I’d like to show you cooler and more intricate ones… I think it would be a mistake budget-wise and creatively to just go big and blow up a freeway. That’s not our gig. That’s a comic book or a Bond gig. We want to show you cool and intricate details. What are those little details in everyday life? Hopefully – we make people look at garbage collectors and cleaner vans and homeless people a little differently now.”

Vivek Choudhary

The Day I killed a Bird

It was a great day as always, but unfortunate too.

I came back home, we have a lot of birds, squirrels, peacocks roaming in the Farm House.
Out of nowhere a bird appear in front of my bike, he had his wings spread and he was few inches above the ground I thought he is flying and would pass so I did not apply brakes.
I stopped few meters ahead to check. I walked towards where I first spotted the bird.

The bird was sitting idle, he looked perfectly fine. I reached out to grab him, he did not resist, he was alive, then why did he not fly when I tied to grab him. He was blinking, his neck was moving. There was no blood. May be I ran over him that caused an internal injury. I brought it with me with hopes that he would survive and will fly again after some rest.

But it died few minutes after I brought it with me. It died in my hands.
I felt so much guilt for killing a bird for no reason.

It was the same breed as shown here.

I would request all to drive a little slow in areas which have birds flying around very often.

Vivek Choudhary
I hope that bird forgives me for killing him :(

The Games Period : School Times

When we moved to Jaipur, I started school from 6th standard in DAV Jaipur. Its an average good school, nothing extraordinary about it.

I don't remember whether it happened in 6th or 7th standard.

We used to have a games period every Saturday. I was not into sports, still not into it. Major game we played was football, no matter in which team I am, I used to hang around the goal so that I don't have to run around the pointlessly given that I don't know how to kick the ball properly. I don't remember how but during one such game they made me goalkeeper, I didn't mind I sat there with some more guys who weren't actually playing. The chances of ball coming to me were maybe 30-40%.

Suddenly I saw everybody running towards our goal, the guy who had the ball and maneuvering it towards me was tall and very healthy. I knew squat about football, basically when you have to stop a straight ball coming towards you, you need to cross your arms to save your chest from the impact. The guy hit the ball really hard, and I instead of crossing arms, stood in SRK style with arms spread to cover maximum area. The ball hit me right in my chest. I saved the goal but felt my body organs moving, I sat down, it took me couple of minutes to get up again. I saved the goal for my team, for next two weeks they again chose me as goalkeeper, I knew what to do this time "let the ball pass" but the ball never came to me again.

Anyways, those were good days.

Vivek Choudhary

Batch of 2009, DAV Jaipur

My school and the ground where we played football.

Corporate Rules that you should know.

1. Take ownership. There is no blame game in corporate. If it succeeds, its everyone’s effort. If it fails, its your fault. Its not a school to push the blame on someone. Your seniors will respect you for integrity.
2. Be always smarter than your manager. If you are, then your job is secure and he will respect you. If you aren’t, be ready to listen to his taunts and degradation.
3. If it needs to be done, it has to be done. A mail pops in just before you have to leave after a 10 hour day. And it says urgent. Either you can ignore it or sit for another half hour to complete it. Your decision decides your promotion.
4. Don’t take a day off unless needed. Your hangover doesn’t count as a reason. If its a reason, stop drinking. Stop everything that makes you tired next day to miss office.
5. Be cheerful with everyone from security guard to VP. It will give you 2 benefits: 1. You would be presented as a positive and cheerful employee (and it matters) 2. You can get things does easily.
6. When in office, do office work. Its ok to file IT returns or check quick social media but don’t start making business plans for your startup or start editing photos for your candid photography page. 6–8 hours of solid office work everyday will take you long way.
7. Know your process, know your peers, know about every (most) work getting done in your building. Don’t be a stalker or a nagger. Be a curious candidate who knows what he and his peers are doing. Will help you solve any problems you face in work sometime.
8. Know your company well. Sounds childish? Trust me, most of us do not know what your company does fully. What are the product segments, who are its competitors, where is the headquarter and who is the CEO.
9. Know the current affairs. While this doesn’t directly affect your work, there are moments when you would get a chance to interact with top management and the topics leapfrog from politics to macro economic factors. You shouldn’t be a sitting duck. Your small talk can have a very large impact.
10. Focus on big picture. You are just an ordinary s/w engineer or a junior analyst? Doesn’t matter. Look at your process like your lead or manager sees. Focus on the big picture. See like a bird and work like a worm.
11. Sometimes its donkey work. Do it. I work with senior directors of billion dollar companies who make their own slides. And many times they have to spend time on adjusting the logos or changing the fonts! Part of the job. They have secretaries but on a tight schedule, you are your boss.
12. Never blame your company. Never. if you feel you are excellent worker and your current company is not supporting you, then you are free to take a walk outside. Search for a better company. And if you can’t find a job, well then, its your mistake. You are not competent enough.
13. There is always growth. You have to be ready for it. Every company has a CEO and he/she was once a junior like you. The CEO worked his way up by hardwork, talent and beating all the competition. You can also be that CEO if you put 10–12 hours a day for 10 years in a row. There ain’t any shortcut.
14. Never expect a pat on the back. If you want to go up the ladder, do not strive for pat on backs or acknowledgements for short term projects. To quote Tywin Lannister “Jugglers and singers require applause”. Rise above the competition.