Sanchit's Blog

I went on a bachelor party of a dear friend and all of us ganged up on the bachelor guy on post marriage life chaos. We ended up showing off all the fundaes on various problems, one of them being saas bahu and beta - the unsolvable emotional drama. Poor chap might have got cold feet but rest of us were doing what we do best - problem solving and giving gyaan :P So here is the gyaan in concise format on dos and donts. This doesn't solve the problem, only reduces the pain :) Read it with a pinch of salt and with satirical humor. Minimize dramas Minimize opportunity of dramas - There are two extreme lifestyles - live in a joint family or go nuclear with minimum connectivity. In the former way, chances of dramas are more but you have more support as a family to take care of each other's needs. In the later case, dramas won't be there but also connection between individuals gets loosen up. You need to figure out the right balance depending on the individual personalities.

I am fond of writing algorigthms and workflows for the problems I solve. Going macro, I have tried to write an algo for problem solving itself. Problem solving is the exercise you do when you create a strategy or figuring out a good solution for any wild problem in the world. My intent was not to make it near perfect, but to just put my current thoughts in one place. Feel free to add in this and use this in problem solving Clarify what (your goal) . Make it detailed and aim for the best case Make it measurable and define the measures. Spend time here Build existing learning How are other companies doing Someone in team would have done it earlier Who at ground level does it and can give you real insights Create a solution Identify stakeholders and what each of them would want. Your solution in their perception should be rocking Break solution into flow and quantify each step and build solution accordingly (horizontal segmentation of funnel) Break s

Juhi and I visited Japan in Sept 2015 and we wanted to blog our experience. It was a fascinating trip learning about Japan and its people. The trip was long and hence the blog, so Juhi and I divided 1 day each to scribble down our experiences. Day 1  By Sanchit Bullet train I reached at 7am (Tokyo time) and had only 2 hours sleep previous night - partly because of Japan Airlines who have amazing movie collection in inflight entertainment. Juhi would reach airport from US after 9 hours and I was very sleepy. Post immigration I was looking for a resting place and found out a big hall with beds and resting chairs (and all empty). I had a good 3 hour sleep and I refreshed at airport before beginning "visit to Tokyo". I picked up local SIM which we preordered at post office and headed towards Tokyo station via Narita Express (1 hour journey). I had 6 hrs with me for a solo trip before Juhi would arrive and we would leave for Kyoto. View from the hotel I started

In my previous blog, I scribbled on how large is your large . There I concluded that our canvas is just too big and we need to think hard about how can we do something meaningful. While I ponder on what this meaningful could be, I would like to share my thoughts on what we consider meaningful things in this world as it stands today, with the following questions - What are by and large the achievements of human race in the last 1-2 centuries? Are these achievements really "achievements" in our big canvas (time x distance x yet_unknown_dimensions ).  Does human race have a direction and all efforts aligned towards that direction? Who are the people responsible for these achievements? What are rest of the folks doing? I read various articles on Google on achievements human race has accomplished and these articles mostly talked about achievements in astrophysics (e.g. Mars mission), physics (e.g. quantum physics), medical science, architectural marvels, musical wonde

Why is a mobile app more powerful than a website? At first it sounded un-intuitive to me. My reasons were that mobile has limitations due to a smaller screen, low computation power than a laptop and not having a keyboard further slows down typing on a mobile. Me and my company's co-founder knew that ecommerce companies are going to mobile apps, as apps constitute majority of their revenue curves. I was struggling to map this trend with my intuition. What makes a mobile app more preferred over website to an end user. We jotted down following reasons in next 15 mins: Mobile App Website User Attributes Geolocation is more readily available. User is by default logged in Cookies from other websites are availabile but their use may be limited. User logged-in is not necessary Ease of giving inputs to device Unless app requires you to type, it is very easy to just tap-tap and proceed to the next action Moving mouse pointer and clicking is not so intuitive. However, i

Our friends baked us an anniversary cake last night. That was probably the most 'special thing' we did yesterday. We also made rotis for dinner, which I guess is special because we never do that on weekdays.

Its mid-winter here in Charlottesville, and temperatures can dip pretty low. So today (Sunday) when it got really warm here, we decided to drive down to Blue Ridge Mountains to soak in some sun and fresh air. We didn't want to go on a long hike, or one that was very far from Rockfish Gap. So we decided upon Turk Mountain Summit. It was only 2.2 miles round trip from the parking, and the cherry on the cake was that there was 0.1 mile rock scrambling at the summit. Most of the hike was easy, except for the last bit near the summit, where it got steep very fast. We got to the top and enjoyed a nice and clear view of the valley. We took some pictures and decided to go to Raven's Roost to watch the sunset. Here are some pictures from today... Part of the trail was embellished by stones Part of the trail was embellished with moss Carrying everything to the top, except for his wife Panoramic view of the summit At the edge You could see very far fr