Life, tech, salesforce, philosophy, art & random musings – with a pinch of salt and a dash of mint.
My wife once asked me to get down to a figure for the dollars I think will be good enough for us. I calculated and calculated and calculated and calculated over a period spanning a few months. $75k a year seemed to fulfill our needs, $100k is what will give us a decent life. This…
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A computer screen in front of me. A computer screen. Letters/words on a computer screen. Two hands typing. One mind thinking what is being experienced. Mind thinking how to not have so much space on hitting enter and moving to next line. Not getting a quick answer, mind decides to continue without hitting the enter button…
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Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer who lost a horse. It ran away. All the neighbors came around that evening and said – “that’s too bad.” He said – “maybe.” The next day the horse came back and brought seven wild horses with it. All the neighbors came around and said…
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Pre-determinism negates free-will. Let’s picture this; let’s describe the context. In a given context each element bounces off against others producing a certain effect. A cause or a combination of causes can produce only one (and only that) effect or a combination of effects. These effects plus new actions become the cause(s) of new ‘pre-determined’ events. If…
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How can ‘I’ improve ‘me’? You can‘t. If you could, then there would be only one or two self-help books; not hundreds published every year; not millions all around the globe still needing improvement after having read tens of self-help books. “Self Improvement is masturbation.” ~ Tyler Durden, Fight Club
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In my late teens, I wanted to do exactly opposite of what my father wanted me to. Then I came across a beautiful poem by Khalil Gibran, a poem I connected with and wanted my father to read. I could never give him the book. Now that I am a newly minted father, I recollect…
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No Software No software is the marketing tagline that salesforce used to sell its flagship Salesforce Automation product and a bundle of other related products. Let’s understand where it all started. Initially, each organization had to manage its infrastructure, platform and application software on its own but that was in the 20th century, whose hangover…
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Eat or not eat meat – an ethical consideration. Being in the USA, I am learning more about factory animals here; I am sure the situation must be same elsewhere too. I am not a daily meat-eater; I eat twice or thrice a week. And I love the taste of it. Over last few months,…
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From my light The body and the world arise. So all things are mine, Or nothing is. As a wave, Seething and foaming, Is only water So all creation, Streaming out of the Self, Is only the Self. When the Self is unknown The world arises, Not when it is known. From me the world streams out And in me it…
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Salesforce is a SaaS, PaaS product/service. The core of its architecture is designed to handle multi-tenancy. Salesforce has a set of instances classified into Prod and Non- Prod, where Non-Prod can be further subcategorized into Preview and Non-Preview. Salesforce calls its Non-Prod environments ‘sandboxes’. Salesforce Editions Sandboxes Available Per Edition SANDBOX TYPE PROFESSIONAL EDITION PERFORMANCE…
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never not now 