The bug stops here!

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Ownership, commitment and stewardship are some of the common core values any organisation would like to have but I tell you very few live up to that. It is rarest of rare. Having said that, it is more important to have a very good attitude over aptitude. Aptitude can be build over a period of time however having right attitude is the key to success.

Now here is the thing!

Take #1 Camera! Roll! Action!

Scene No big deal

You develop solution, integrated and deploy end to end. This involved a whole lot of pro- activeness , commitment, ownership and for that matter stewardship to Go-live to production. Everything is fine. Good job indeed! Ideal scenario No production issues! Job well done! Less production support work! and so on.......

Take #2 Camera Roll (Reaction)

Scene A very big deal

Now you remove all those key elements(commitment, ownership... so..so) and you somehow implemented the solution. Production Go-Live, all went well as per so called sprint planning. Yay! Big round of applause! no Issues! Good Job! Well Done!

One fine day production is down, you get call in the middle of the night , team spend whole next day to keep production environment up and running. Pass the bug, infrastructure not optimum, cloud not getting scaled up and so on. Somehow production issue is resolved. Phew! Next day you get into PIR Post Incident Report, Root cause analysis and so on .You are totally screwed. As a process team spend time to prepare leadership report to find the root cause and impact post production issue.

Sometimes there are cases you will be thankful to fix the production issue in the wee hours and turn around time is pretty quick. That is the only time you or your team emerges as super hero(s) in our so call WAR ROOM , A real Avenger.

But with these kind of setup, more production issues, unstable system , more work. .Keep postponing problem , use tactical over strategic solution.

In the process we got budget to support such a critical cause from steering committee. Everyone got the job to do. Win win situation for all. Eventually, show must go on!

Just Pass the bug!

You know what I mean at the end of the day, who cares!

Anti climax- Here is what happens behind the scene.....&....!.......@.....

It is not my job. It is something I don't care unless I owns it. It is not my headache. I'm waiting on other team to fix it. It is blocker unless integration team give us an end point or develop their api and so on. We got dependency on some xyz team, waiting for vendor/third party to come back.

So what happen next then we got line up of product owner, business analyst , delivery managers who sometimes don't know the technical aspect of it , a small story become long. We end up in meeting rooms with agenda. So what happen next is, we involve all star wars characters in that meetings and email exchange and so on, and the outcome is even Jedi master can't save the planet.

Eventually, a short show turns out to be Season with episodes. I bet, we all like Season shows, don't we!

So finally, the bug stops here!

In a nutshell, nobody wants to step up and take that extra miles. This is where attitude counts more than a aptitude. No doubt aptitude is a need of an hour. We need right skill, talent to run the show but right attitude over aptitude matters lot these days.

But at the end of the day.......

As I said always, Who cares!

BBC: words you use to sign off your email

Depending on where you live, the words you use to sign off your email could be just as important as the content.

Whatever you choose, you don’t want to leave your email’s recipient puzzled. This happened to me the first time I received an email that whimsically ended ‘TTFN’. Those of you well-versed in Winnie the Pooh or British military-influenced communications would have been able to decode this right away. I, however, was left scratching my head for a while.

Courtesy BBC:
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190508-why-the-way-you-close-your-emails-is-causing-confusion

BBC: Climate change: Where we are in seven charts and what you can do to help

BBC: CLimate Change 

One degree may not sound like much, but, according to the IPCC, if countries fail to act, the world will face catastrophic change - sea levels will rise, ocean temperatures and acidity will increase and our ability to grow crops, such as rice, maize and wheat, would be in danger.

If we add up all the promises to cut emissions made by countries that have signed the Paris climate agreement, the world would still warm by more than 3C by the end of this century.

The countries emitting the most greenhouse gases by quite a long way are China and the US. Together they account for more than 40% of the global total, according to 2017 data from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46384067

BBC: Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag

Best of best formulated, articulated BBC content

An American explorer has found plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.

It is the third time humans have reached the ocean's extreme depths.

Mr Vescovo said: "It is almost indescribable how excited all of us are about achieving what we just did.

The 4.6m-long, 3.7m-high submersible - called the DSV Limiting Factor - was built by the US-based company Triton Submarines, with the aim of having a vessel that could make repeated dives to any part of the ocean.

At its core is a 9cm-thick titanium pressure hull that can fit two people, so dives can be performed solo or as a pair.

It can withstand the crushing pressure found at the bottom of the ocean: 1,000 bars, which is the equivalent of 50 jumbo jets piled on top of a person.

"Our team had to pioneer new camera systems that could be mounted on the submersible, operate at up to 10,000m below sea level and work with robotic landers with camera systems that would allow us to film Victor's submersible on the bottom of the ocean.

The challenges of exploring the deep ocean - even with robotic vehicles - has made the ocean trenches one of the last frontiers on the planet.

Once thought to be remote, desolate areas, the deep sea teems with life. There is also growing evidence that they are carbon sinks, playing a role in regulating the Earth's chemistry and climate.

"This submarine and its mother ship, along with its extraordinarily talented expedition team, took marine technology to a ridiculously higher new level by diving - rapidly and repeatedly - into the deepest, harshest, area of the ocean."

Reference:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48230157

Courtsey:BBC

Math: Palindrome Numbers

Palindromic Number 

A palindromic number is a number that remains the same when its digits are reversed. Like 16461, for example, it is "symmetrical". The term palindromic is derived from palindrome, which refers to a word whose spelling is unchanged when its letters are reversed.

For E.g

11

121

12321

Some cool facts!

Digit Reversal Sums Leading to Palindromes

Beginning with the decimal representation of any integer N, reverse the digits and add I to N.  Iterate this operation.  Typically you will soon arrive at a palindrome, i.e., a number that reads the same forwards and backwards.  For example, starting with 39, we have 39 + 93 = 132.    Then 132 + 231 = 363 = palindrome.

Extremely Wicked , Shockingly Evil and Vile

Vile : Extremely unpleasant.

"he has a vile temper"

VILE	Extremely Unpleasant
synonyms	foul, nasty, unpleasant, bad, disagreeable,  horrid, horrible,  dreadful,  abominable, atrocious,  offensive, obnoxious, odious, unsavoury,  repulsive, off-putting, repellent, revolting, repugnant, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome,  hateful,  nauseating, sickening; base, low, mean, wretched, disgraceful,  appalling,  shocking, ugly, vulgar, sorry, shabby, shameful, dishonourable, execrable,  heinous,  abhorrent, deplorable, monstrous,  wicked, evil, dark, dirty, vicious, iniquitous, sinful, corrupt, sordid, depraved,  perverted,  debased, reprobate, degenerate, debauched, dissolute, contemptible,  despicable,  reprehensible,  diabolical, diabolic, devilish, fiendish, hellish, damnable;
informal	yucky, sick-making, gut-churning, icky, gross, godawful, low-down, rotten, sick;
	bogging
	lousy, vomitous;
vulgar slang	Shitty
literary	Noisome
archaics	curvy, disgustful, loathly;
Rare	egregious, flagitious
	"a vile smell"

Oops! My Mistake

"If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake." - Confucious

None of us is infallible in nature. We do commit mistake! As someone said by nature we make mistake. Sometimes silly , sometime grave one. But it happens, without having much control on it.

This small parable of mine I always seek comfort in.

So you have options to verify whatever 

you are doing is correct , if that is the case, you proceed with COMMIT or ROLLBACK. This is really what happen to us with our mistake. You've options to follow a guided path and correct your mistake.

Technically, we're less privileged when it comes to UNDO command but we're blessed with REDO.

Be reverent! Use it wisely!

So going back to what made me think about this whole thing of MISTAKE. In a daily basis knowingly or unknowingly we commit mistake , it can be anything from breaking traffic rules, telling lies, made up things, relationship, workplace multi tasking reply all, chatting in a wrong window-oops, such list is endless. Some mistakes are really embarrassing while some will haunt you forever. Remedy to all of this is very simple.

You got into a situation , TIME B. O. M. B !

How would you do that?

Moment you realize you made a mistake just admit it and correct it . Timing is the key. Be Honest about it. Be Grateful, acknowledge a person who point out your mistake. Nothing makes you less out of it. Eventually spend a time to get it right next time.Trust me that is the melting and breaking point of it.

Ultimately! You feel Relax! Relief

Also if you analyse and agree with me, life is like a transaction. Everything you do, is transaction(al). Short term and not constant.

Don't sit on it(Mistake). Life is short !So there is no point looking back, everything you did was committed but what you've control, is your present to correct it. It is also well said, "Don't live in the past, you will die there".

Bottom line is, Avoid pitfalls , overcome it ,get it sorted, move on and feel the bliss to enjoy rest of the show.

If you really make this a teachable point in your day to day life , making no mistake next time , sure is, An Award goes to YOU!

Broinowski eight skills for engaging creatively

Math : Square numbers ending with 5

Square number ending with 5

Square of 25=625

Square of 35

Square of 45

 

Give a try for 15, 45 and so on and let me know how it go.