Jun 5The games we choose to playChivalry is dead. Short live the Night — TL;DR: This is my last post. The emptiness is for your imagination :) … . . . . . . . . . . 🤙1 min readThe games we choose to playChivalry is dead. Short live the NightTL;DR: This is my last post. The emptiness is for your imagination :)Catch me in the future at joelvzach.co…..........🤙----
Mar 30Who gets the mic?Is it the loudest voice or the silent hum? — I’ve always found group discussions interesting. The premise of the activity is to engage as a collective and arrive at a conclusion together, by contributing points and building on others. Include this as a placement filtration round, and things get bit more interesting. On…3 min read
Jan 7Inaction or (risk of) wrong action?When silence is an escape of responsibility — I just finished listening to Joe Rogan’s recent (controversial) podcast with Dr. Malone regarding Vaccine hesitancy and how massive suppression of freedom of choice is silently killing voices of reason. It touched on a question I’ve thought about from time to time — is it better to avoid making a…3 min read
Aug 7, 2021How to disband your communityAll good things come to an end — This is the last of the 3 part series around community building. If you need to catch up on the posts related to starting out & sustaining it, do read it first! It is always fun to start something new — full of potential and scope to etch out with…3 min read
Aug 7, 2021How to sustain your community?Undying momentum and the secret behind surviving — This is the continuation of part 1: How to start your community. Please give it a read before proceeding to this one to get the context (and some frameworks!) Good News: So now you have a community out there! Congratulations. After weeks and weeks of planning and strategic scripting, your…3 min read
Jul 24, 2021Me : We ratioIs the cause truly above the self? — Disclaimer: I’m not sure if I’ve penned on this topic previously — I suspect I have given how much headspace this topic has occupied in the past. Regardless, here is another attempt to clear my thoughts to give students some clarity of perhaps relatable dilemma’s in priorities at University. I…University4 min read
May 27, 2021Why I’m constantly fascinated by Graph Theory!The Science behind Networks is one to closely examine — Imagine you are tasked with creating a university course timetable — such a manner that it meets all set constraints without conflicts. If we are dealing with a handful of courses perhaps its doable. However as the number of courses increase, manually keeping track of the schedule becomes near impossible…Network3 min read
Nov 3, 2020Dear Senior, from Freshman: Computer Science and EngineeringThe last of the regretful series. — If you have read the remaining ones on this kind, you probably know how this goes — I reflect on how the time went in the last one year in the hopes of providing clarity for someone who wishes to learn from my hindsight. However, this one is different —…Regret8 min read
Published in Life Documented·Aug 30, 2020tw²: Aug 18 — Aug 31 | The EndIt was good while it lasted (on Medium) | TWTW #101 — Tuesday (18/08/2020) Watched Revenant in the evening, after talking to 5 juniors in the evening, which was after a meeting with Anand and Sachin — who brought me to speed about the work they are working towards. Wednesday (19/08/2020) Watched Body of Lies in the morning.Twtw7 min read
Published in Life Documented·Aug 16, 2020tw²: Aug 10–17, 2020 | #3323 weeks of Corona break + Penultimate one | TWTW #100 — I have covered 700 days of my life now!!! Now all we need to do is wait for the Robot revolution to study all this and make my immortal clone before the end of this century :) Last 20 or so were probably boring for you haha. It’s been a…Twtw4 min read