Screens to Writings to NLP - Passion is always a way of life

Starting from Television's to smart devices that provide Virtual reality experiences, the screens have been a great role player in our everyday lives.

When Philo Taylor Farnsworth invented and demonstrated TV in 1927, I am not sure what his vision was. But, whatever it was, it has become a success. 

I had been a TV lover since childhood. My childhood, along with my sister, who used to be indoors because both my parents worked most of the day, consisted of fighting and pulling and making each other mad for reason. Only thing that connected us was Television.

My mom would instruct us to read and write home works and I as a big sister would give all false promises to take care of everything. I would use the key, that's provided for me to connect the cable again in our terrace and come back diligently sit with my lovely little sister to watch TV, until we hear our mom's bike outside. The moment we hear her, we would pull of the plug, take a note or a book and would start (acting to) writing or reading.

From those days to now, scrolling in small screens until someone actually catches the attention ik real life, life has evolved so much but the addiction to screens has remained the same. While remeber those childish days as funny ones, now I don't cherish the addiction to screens as much. It's not because I have a kid. It's because it's not doing any good. 

Watching those videos endlessly, window shopping on Amazon and Flipkart, we have become emotionless. 

When they told chatgpt can write, i thought I would write endless books with it's help. I still can. But, it's not me. This is me. 

The flawed, addicted, back paining, daughter loving ❤️, fighting, achieving, failing, succeeding, cooking, working, automating , ranting (and many more) is me. 

My prompts might be me. But, the endless amount of chucked human data is not me. And cannot capture my emotions through its writing.

If only writing can give me happiness, why would I use the NLP based Transformer to do that for me?

Friends

Friends

They make or break the life.

I have had friends all through my school, college and work life.

But, very few make a lot of difference in life.

I would like to present this blog post, to one of my good souled friend Merin💖

We were together as a gang at Cognizant Kochi for a very short period of time ⏲️.  But, the unconditional support from her as a friend in all ways stumped me many times.

I was in a club in my office where we would present things based on a given topic. When I joined, she also joined the club out of her own interest. When one day, I presented my topic, there was this one person, who literally was commenting on it, on a very personal level. That was very inappropriate on a professional setting and when many people who had the power to shush or point out it was innappropriate remained silent, she said in the forum, infront of everyone, that she liked my presentation and added, that a person should not talk like that in a professional setting, the way he was talking. 

We find very few souls that become an epitome of real friendship in a corporate set-up. If you find one, cherish it for a lifetime.

And though myself and Merin are separated by distance now, after her marriage and aspirations, I do think of her as one of best people I had in my life.

Until next blog

Shree/KP

The WFH problems

Hello and welcome back to my blog. While I love to be back, because writing is where my soul is, I had missed it. Missed many of the things that I would usually love to embrace.

I had written about the endless scrolling in my LinkedIn post. Well, I think the main reason behind scrolling is being worsened by WFH aka Work from home - the famous work culture after covid.

Do you remeber anybody with a back pain before covid? I don't remember, at least within my own team. Because we had the ergonomic chairs and desk set-up.

We had actual people to talk to, apart from meetings - not just about work and boosting up our career. We had coffee  or tea together, lunch together and a great chat. I had even written a nice poem about how beautiful Cognizant Kochi was on a rainy day with one of my good friends.

I had a very tough post pregnancy. But, my work and office and people there made it easy for me. 

The first time, going to office, after 2.5 or 3 years to work was exciting but was over driving my mind, because I have not heard so many people talk to me in past 3 years in one single day. It was so overwhelming that, I was hearing voices and words that were spoken that day repeating in my head. I couldn't sleep.

But, I made sure I went to office atleast once a week to actually cope with social anxiety.

And come on, this Nov 2024 just ruined all my plans. While work from home gives us a lot of privileges to take care of so many other things, many people, who would actually pitch in to help and take care of things has backed off. The support for working mothers, the safe haven, is no longer a reality.

Wake up early. Walk or exercise. Cook. Clean. Eat. Work. Teach kids. Repeat.

This endless loop of things has made many lives lonely. The conversation they have is only on meetings and just to keep their kids life going, they talk to some auto Anna's and Vegetable vendors. 

And then this Blinkit and Zepto and Swiggy (though I secretly love and order in them very frequently) has reduced the human conversations even at retail stores and vegetable and fruit shops. By this much automation and sophistication, what are we trying to achieve?

Why are people not even free to get their own stuff in actual shops and cook their own food? 

If you talk of a social lunch and a movie time - spoilers- Zomato, Swiggy, Netflix, Amazon Prime, the list is endless.

With all this screen time and again sophistication and offers on all these platforms, what are we trying to achieve?

I hope we find the answer.

Until next rant.

Shree