The beginning, the end, and everything between — Lalith Sahasranama starts with: śrī māta śrī māharajñi śrīmat siṃhāseneśvarī ś ś expands to śṛṅgāra — which is often translated as desire, or passion, or love. In reality it is all of these. But it implies kindness. Anything, done with kindness or love as the motivation can be classified as śṛṅgāra…

Trading Intellectual Property — In Capitalism without Capital, Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake talk about intellectual property being a more valuable asset in the decades ahead than traditional means of production. …

Consuming too much information — There is a lot of information and as restaurants have turned nutrition into entertainment, platforms such as TED, Blinkist, and most news agencies, have turned information into entertainment so that it can be consumed. However, like any non-athlete will know, too much food results in fat buildup…and this is not…

A meditation on the Tantric Agni Mandala — yam dhūmrāciṣe Morning dew rising spreading a misty fog. Gentle steps take us out of our home and across the fresh meadow where droplets of water hang on green grass. The smell of moist soil rises into our nostrils and calms our nerves. …

Thanks for following me In the past I have been using this space to write anything that came to mind. This led to 4 general divisions in terms of topics covered: Spiritual Philosophy General musings on ideas bridging philosophy and spiritual reflection, based on literary sources and analysis. …

We have many big data tools but we still need some tools for not so big data — Below is a workflow to effectively use Amazon’s serverless offerings to load medium size files into a database, whether SQL or otherwise. MapReduce MapReduce is a programming paradigm where big data is processed by mapping a large file to several reducers for parallel processing. We can effectively user Lambda to map…

From a practical perspective — There is a lot written about OAuth and grant types and my goal here is to be a little sparse on complexity and instead provide practical guidance. I’ve also seen a lot of examples suggesting if Native App use this, if Webapp use this etc. I also don’t think that…

A story of degrees of freedom — Norman R. Augustine, when delivering the 1996 Woodruff Distinguished Lecture, narrates a story of trial and error with missiles in the Vietnam War. Ignoring the ethical implications of the war and military gear in general, the talk revealed the complexity of delivering a working product. At one point they shipped…

KPIs for agility — When looking for agile KPIs I get lots of links with charts, tables, and metrics. And those are important to see how a team is performing and as part of conversation starters (maybe what is being charted is not right…). But what can tell us if we are actually “agile”…