My selected blogs & why I wrote them!

At age 13 years, I started writing my personal notes [This is more than quarter of a century ago]. I read somewhere that great people write their daily notes. And reverse engineered it and felt "If anyone write daily notes - they might become great!" As you might know me, without asking anyone about it, I started writing and continued at least for next 12 years and filled 4-5 or more books.

During #cognizant times in 2007-08 I did write a lot of emails [long one] and few blogs that were mostly on the trekking experience type or my experiments at academy there when I used to conduct a session called "The 90 min session". I am sure Sourabh Mittal, CSCP can recall the experience. Since we got him prepared and conduct one session in 2008 something.

At #tricentis from 2015 I got a lot of opportunities to write. I was particularly amazed by long emails of our Co-Founder Franz Fuchsberger and CEO Sandeep Johri who used to write clear emails to all and telling everything. I got chance to write Email drafts to slack messages to a little post on LinkedIn to full length articles. Here is a curated [word owner for me is Atanu Roy ] list of few and reason why I wrote them. This also serve as the compilation for someone who might be interested in reading them and need cross links.

Hence by taking names of my IT gurus Sagar Dubal Vaibhav Kelkar Saksham Sarode and Wolfgang Platz & David Keil I start this list.

Type 1: Let's discuss my friend!

You all may have seen TV programs where a celebrity is asked to talk to anyone they want, via an old telephone set which is not connected with anything. The core concept of ability to talk to anyone [including those who got re-incarnated] is super special. In single shot it opens opportunity to interact with anyone by just typing few lines via a blog. Till date I have written 3 of those "dialogue" types of blogs. Now one will not talk to them without a "burning" reason hence "organically" one need to wait for that reason to come up and then write. The background story should be solid so that the tension and feeling of something special will be there... and ensure to use words from these great people as simple and clear as possible. I have more topics like this and will definitely continue it. Here are links:

With Lord Sri Krishna: (10 Sep 2022)

With Guru (Aaacharya) Chankya: (26 Mar 2020)

With Swami Vivekanand: (6 Feb 2020)

Type 2: Age old wisdom!

I have huge personal respect to age. For me age is long term experience filled in one single place and can be recalled at will. And hence comes our dear "granny". Old, full of jokes, extremely difficult to pick common sense. She can explain us rocket science with a simple daily phenomenon that no one likes to "own"! For me the idea was to connect the IT topics with granny and try to bring her wisdom. Again, a lot more can be expanded and written in future. Here are 3 that I wrote so far.

Software Development life cycle and cooking: (4 May 2017)

Harshita Tak and team this was the concept behind you all 10-cooking onion pakora in Jan 2021.

What is DevOps via a cake: (26 Sep 2016)

OMG - Granny checks my wardrobe (27 Sep 2019)

Type 3: Repeating is refinement!

What can I bring from my old skill of personal diary/notes writing. I can write a diary of a "software tester" who I am actually from many years. So, it was a great opportunity to bring the old experience of writing and connect it with today's world. I know for sure one of my friends Leela Krishna Maddipati liked this style. The diary of a software tester. I wrote only 2 episodes of it, it's open for expansion. Diary of developer Atanu Roy , Diary of Customer Success Manager Shetul Mistry , Diary of a guru RAHUL SHYAMAL and many more can be written...here are 2 links:

Diary of Software Tester - Part 1: (11 Sep 2018)

Diary of Software Tester - Part 2: (18 Sep 2018)

Finally, since you are reading it on LinkedIn these were my tips for expanding network, and my friend RAJENDRA MEHROTRA did implement it a lot. But if you want to know how to get 20,000 you might want to talk to Sanal Nair !

Finally-finally, 2 more pointers:

1) Words have power of creation. Please write something. If you need help, what can you write, let me know I can do a 60 min session and assist what all you can write. It's not required to publish. I have done enough experiment and know for sure that everyone can write. Let me know.

2) Like we prepare tea for someone, and we want to know what they felt, was it good or not. Similarly providing feedback is a great way to encourage good work and discourage bad work. So please be a "critique" [ Ambar Bokare welcome to party] it's a good skill to have and do let me know your detailed feedback on LinkedIn or otherwise.

Thanks a lot for your time.

Regards,

Vaibhav