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The ASYNC-FIRST PLAYBOOK by Sumeet Gayathri Moghe - My view
TL;DR: If you don’t have patience for lengthy prose, jump to the summary for a quick view.
Hello friends!
In early 2008, one of my friends told me that he was quitting his current job and going to work for an European company, but from Pollachi (a small town in western Tamil Nadu), his hometown. It was a big shock for all of our friends. This became a hot topic during our tea breaks the following days. None of us believed it was a sustainable idea. We convinced ourselves that he would come back to the office very soon. But it never happened. Since then, I have heard here and there that people are working remotely. But they were mostly exceptions.
Meanwhile, I joined thoughtworks, where we have open tables and are encouraged to work collaboratively. Even though I felt insecure initially, as people can peek at my screen without any effort, I got comfortable over time. My day usually starts on one side of the table and ends on the other end. As a tech lead, I was quite comfortable navigating near my teammates whenever they or I needed to work together. Remote work was never on my radar of thoughts.
But all changed in a day—the day curfew called out, the day when we were ordered to stay inside our home and continue our normal lives. To be frank, it wasn’t that bad initially. Our team had built a very good Rappot before COVID. It helped us immensely in breaking the barriers set by distance. Though it wasn’t a smooth sail, it wasn’t rough water either.
BUDDHA series by Osamu Tezuka - My view
Hey bookworms,
Though I love reading comics since I was a kid, my territory was limited to Italian and Franco-Belgian comics. I generally read comics translated into Tamil by Muthu Comics or Rani Comics. However, in recent days, I have been exposed to other comics through social media groups and by comics experts such as King Viswa. I was really astounded when I started discovering what I had been missing for so long. Since then, I have started reading Indian as well as those from other cultures. But manga was still an unexplored territory for me. I was afraid it would suit my taste. Also I really did not know where to start with manga as I was overwhelmed with the suggestions from internet. However, even after knowing master Tezuka from others, till the day I conviced myself to spend 3,800 rupees and face my wife’s reactions, Buddha (the book set) and myself were playing hide and seek in Amazon’s cart.