03-04-20
Day was won by our PM by his appeal to country man to light a
candle/diya on Sunday 5th April in solidarity of our fight against Covid-19. Have to give him that
he understands his countrymen well and know how to make everyone align to a
goal. Hopefully he will do similar things for other important things like economic
revival post lock down. As Indians get ready to light diyas and candles, the emergency
services are gearing up to manage the load fluctuations due to power off and then
surge after 9 minutes of darkness. Experts are expecting rolling load shedding
of power across country manage the fluctuations & surge in the period. Will
be an experience for the engineers to manage the same.
Other then office calls, Stories of human endeavors and technology scaling kept me engaged in
the day. From most modern to old endeavors shows how humans sidestep or overcome
problems. Here is a summary of what I read, analyzed or plain observed.
1.
Zoom app
has become a mainstream name in last one month, with amazing scaleup in the
usage the app has taken central stage. With the usage has come deeper scrutiny
where infosec gaps, privacy concerns are gaining news time. Company has done
well to quell this noise by promising full focus on privacy & infosec with
no new features. Here is some coverage for zoom in media
Zoom is revealing it has 200 million daily
users, up from 10 million daily users in December. Zoom is now committing to
freeze features and focus on privacy and security for 90 days. Full details
here: https://theverge.com/2020/4/2/21204018/zoom-security-privacy-feature-freeze-200-million-daily-users…
Lot’s of backstories about company and its
founder can be found in Net. Do browse to understand what can be done with
right execution.
2.
An excerpt
from “The Plague by Albert Camus”, shared by my friend
“"Indeed, even after Dr Rieux had admitted
in his friend's company that a handful of persons, scattered about town, had
without warning died of plague, the danger still remained fantastically unreal.
... Looking from his window at the town, outwardly quite unchanged, the doctor
felt little more than a faint qualm for the future, a vague unease. He tried to
recall what he had read about the disease. Figured floated across his memory,
and he recalled that some thirty or so great plagues known to history had
accounted for nearly a hundred million deaths. But what are a hundred million
deaths... Since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him
dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a
puff of smoke in the imagination. ... Yes, that was how it should be done. You
should collect the people at the exits of five picture houses, you should lead
them to a city square and make them die in heaps if you wanted to get a clear
notion of what it means. Then at least you could add some familiar faces to the
annonymous mass. But naturally that was impossible to put into practice;
moreover, what man knows ten thousand faces. ... the noises of a happy town, a tranquillity
so casual and thoughtless seemed almost effortlessly to give the lie to those
old pictures of the plague: Athens, a charnel house reeking to heaven and
deserted even by birds; Chinese towns cluttered up with victims silent in their
agony ... Nights and days filled always with the eternal cry of human pain. No,
all those horrors were not near enough as yet even to ruffle the equanimity of
that spring afternoon."
3.
Some bit of
meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Excerpt here
“If anyone can refute me — show me I’m making a
mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective — I’ll gladly change.
It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is
to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations,
6:21 (translated by Gregory Hays, The Modern Library, New York)
And
4.
Stuff on network
fragility, multiple academic paper on how and what of network may change and or
destruct due to stress, behaviour change and or plain no capital available situations
. This is part of my study for post Covid world.
Meanwhile the conversations are getting
better and folks are opening up. To every one who called or gave time to speak a
big thank you.
I start scraping for post Covid world in tomorrow’s write up.
Thank you for your patience and feedback
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