My name is Subhanga Upadhyay. I used to be a computer science student at the University of Minnesota, a software engineer, and now a writer at this blog. I try to write about the best software engineering ideas and techniques I’ve encountered through the books, videos, or podcasts I consume. Join me on my journey to become a lifelong learner at Making Life Kaizen.
The goal is to identify the necessities to leading a well fulfilled, happy, and rich life as a software engineer. I will discuss topics such as interview preparation, LeetCode, working on your communication skills as an engineer, leading a healthy life, etc. These are very important things to consider, yet I find that these topics are just not discussed as much. I am also writing on this blog to collect nifty tricks that can make programming easier and want to make this a personal knowledge database. I hope you find it useful!
There is one personal value that I am uplifting through this process that I hope you can take away from this blog. That is to:
Keep feeding your curiosity
Life without curiosity is plain dull. There nothing to look forward to once you have made up your mind that you have learnt everything you needed to learn. This makes life a drag.
We tend to stop our pursuit of learning once we finish our university degree. That marks the final time in our life where we adopt the student’s mentality and explore whatever ideas that interest us. It does NOT need to be that way.
We can choose to continue learning until the day we die and this blog is an attempt to document such learning.
It doesn’t need to be aeronautical engineering and can be as simple as learning how to grate cheese better. We are above no wisdom when making continuous improvement our goal. After all, you are going to grate cheese many times in life. Making that process 1% better does improve your life, especially when compounded over time.
This blog is an attempt to feed your curiosity bug so it doesn’t starve. Let me know if there’s a topic you’d like to delve into deeper and let’s make life kaizen!