Hi, I'm Bharat, from 🇮🇳
Me in Osaka with my first and most sincere love: Chocolate
📍in Osaka, with my first and most sincere love, chocolate
I'm a software engineer writing TypeScript and building tools for the web. I am interested in technology and societal improvement. I am curious about most things in the world, which compels me to travel extensively and write about it sometimes. Grateful for early failure.Here is a little bit more about me: I was born and went to school in Delhi, India. I was bright academically for most of school but had few friends – the computer was a big part of my life all through childhood and teenage. Technology was my biggest interest all through school, culminating with being president of the high school computer club on graduating school in 2015.I went to college in Patiala (a beautiful princely city in the north of India) to study computer engineering in 2016, after attempting to make it to the IITs (the best engineering colleges in India) for one extra attempt. I did not, and that remains an early, spectacular failure for which I am very grateful.I was greatly interested in societal improvement all through college years and got multiple internships in the area. I graduated in 2020 and found a job to pursue the same interest: to apply open-source technology for governments.I remain extremely thankful for the year and a half I spent at this job, since it provided opportunity to understand many facts of the world I was attempting to impact.My work with open-source coupled with a desire to separate work and play got me an offer to work full-time for an open-source company whose projects I had been using for many years.On the side, I work with an organisation called iSPIRT which is trying to bring about orbital shifts in Indian society. This is a core project.As of writing, I continue to work at MUI, get to travel a fair bit because of the remote nature of the job and spend the rest of my time being guided by curiosity
In IR, and indeed in all govt. organizations, we have this system of files for all decision-making processes. The much-maligned files! Much-maligned, not wrongfully, because these files move from table to table at excruciatingly slow speed. And we have some executives who are experts in diverting the issue at hand and send the file in a spin just because they do not want to commit to anything; the infamous jalebi. But the system has a merit. It has everyone concerned writing their views, which may not always be convenient or comfortable. Yet, you have a cross section of views. I have always thought that if the movement of these files can be expedited, it's not such a bad system at all. One can use this system of file movement for the benefit of the organization. One has to declare clearly that all are encouraged to record contra views, never asking anyone to write/propose what one perceives to be in the interest of the organization. This practice of getting your underlings, if I may use the term, to put up comfortable notes on file is pretty prevalent on IR and as one would expect in contrived decision-making, it may frequently backfire. On the other hand, if the leader or the person where the buck stops has the courage of conviction to decide an issue in the direction she or he feels to be correct, in spite of adverse notes on the file, contra views help in preventing her or him from taking a wrong decision in the zeal to seal a decision fast. These views offer an opportunity to think more before deciding; they are by no means obstacles. I have tried this all my life; it works as the colleague working with you feel relaxed to examine issues freely, without fear or favour. Just one caveat: if you delay or send in gyration a file, a plate of jalebis await you, diabetes or not.
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