Surya Prakash Jayanti

Here are few quotes from the books I read recently. You can find the collection of books I ready here  https://jnsuryaprakash.blogspot.com/2009/03/books-i-read.html .  Lord, protect me from my friends, I can take care of my enemies. Gratitude is a burden, revenge is a pleasure. Dead people receive more flower than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude. Never grab a sword by blade, always on the handle side. A wise man profits from enemies better than a fool from his friends. Thomas Alva Edison declined to share Nobel prize with Tesla in 1915, because he don't want Tesla to get recognition. Fools learn from their mistakes, greats learn from others mistakes. Changing the job is more like buying a house rather than buying a dress. Too many give up because there is too much give up around them. Think if it is positive humor or negative humor. You can do anything you want, but you have to believe yourself first. Hyper competitive - win all the times....

The wiki definition for Technical debt says  "Implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy solution". No body ever plans to add technical debt , it gets added as part of the culture of the organization. In the present world of speed to market teams are working under huge pressure of timelines and this is causing people to take short cuts to deliver in time. Thats why I like the motto "you own your ops". That way we will be more focused on self-service,  monitoring and self-healing aspects instead of dev teams throwing over fence to the operational side of the IT. Through every phase of software development life cycle we are adding technical debts. while developing stories we may not have time to investigate all possible scenarios. We are not able to invest enough time analyzing all data decisions. So, we might have taken 80/20 approach and ended up with 20 % technical debt right off the bat. Then during design we don't have time to develop API b...

I took a resolution NOT to be controversial after getting harassed socially few years back because of my views about M.F. Hussain. Since then I tried to stay within boundaries and avoid controversies. More than dozen blog posts I still kept as draft is the witness to that resolution. Now I think I am breaking that promise (in views of few people). But I want to speak about it, express my thoughts on Black Lives Matter. If you are saying all lives matter then you are treating vulnerable and less vulnerable same way. We as humans developed a social system to prioritize Children, elderly, disabled, women in case of emergencies. That shows the culture of humans and how we are different than the animals in the wild. From time to time we prioritize and re-adjust to the circumstances of the society. We as society grown from NO voting right to Women, NO voting right to Afro-Americans to a society of equal rights. We are NOT living in the best society every lived on earth, we are in the pursuit...

First rule for success is there are no rules and second rule is there are no formulas. Don't be mislead by the title, this is one person's interpretation with his level of (im)maturity. Now you read the statutory warning, let's dive into the details. We will be talking about three things that make success possible in anyone's life. Timing, Leverage and Discipline in the same order.  Timing, you can also call it fate. Life is not fair to everybody, suck it up. Some people are given fair shot than others at success. Some are lucky enough to be groomed towards it. This factor defines whether you will be born in  antilla  or Dharavi.   There is no bargain here, life hands it out to you and you have to live with it. We have seen rags to riches to stories, really great inspiration. But they are more of an exception than norm. Be inspired don't be fooled, just never accept fate's verdict, Keep fighting. Whatever anybody says Fate/Timing can turn your life upside d...

Elasticity will be the new Mantra of corporate  If something this COVID19 taught every corporate it is need for elasticity. It is always there but we never felt pressing need for it. Every company has a fair understanding on how much it costs to scale up X% or scaled down Y%. But no company ever needed to calculate the need for "Do NOTHING". What will be the cost of operation if we are in DO NOTHING mode ? Whether it is small business or big business now there should be a  DO NOTHING (pandemic)   clause. Like the US and China trade agreement have a clause, if there is a pandemic this trade agreement is NULL and VOID. What is the minimum cost you have to bear if there is no revenue source and how long you can sustain. Every financial adviser tells you to keep 3-6 months expenses in savings. Like that every company should know the DO NOTHING cost and keep that as cash flow. Just like stress test for banks each corporate need to test this new financial standard. In the ...

In this blog I am writing about my experience from book  (Curious Mind) and documentary (Theranos) Thomas Alva Edison: Undoubtedly the greatest innovator with hundreds of patents in his name. It was interesting for me to particularly learn about his Light bulb innovation he marketed 4 years before it was ready. He sold the idea and made money out of it even when the bulbs were exploding due to heat. He figured it out before his investors exploded. Till now, I never know this side of Thomas Alva Edison. He was also the inventor of "Fake it till you make it" apparently :-) Another interesting observation I heard from Theranos documentary in HBO is about Dice analogy. If I ask you to spin the dice and tell me the number (without me watching the result), I will pay you based on the result. Ex: if you rolled 6, i will pay you $6. I am not Watching it so you have chance of cheating me. Imagine you are hooked up to Lie detector now. You will be caught in that test. Imagine diff...

Here is an imaginary idea, what if you compare your family to software trends. Wives are like Data Analytics . Always big on numbers (shopping, remembering dates). Trends are always changing and you can not say to the market that you don't have analytics strategy (wife), competitors will start underestimating you if you do that. You say you have the latest and greatest tools and you don't want anybody to check on your data. Husbands are always like systems . It's not easy to modernize and you can't dump the systems altogether. You will be struggling with endowment effect. You customized systems (husband) a lot and it's not easy to find a replacement serving the same needs/requirements Sons are like AI . It is very difficult to understand and fascinating to have. You don't want them to fully self-autonomous and you can not control intelligence/effects once you let them out. Daughters are like cloud . You have to have cloud strategy for th...