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Take it as a new year resolutions or anything else. Following are the things that i am going to do this Year. Let’s see how much can be achieved

• Volunteer
• Learn to cook
• Get my Passport stamped aka Travel somewhere that is not India or Nepal
• Start playing Cricket again
• Join Gym
• Learn about body language and human psychology
• Seek out the best media – music, film, books – and develop a deep understanding of them
• Learn a magic trick
• Start a company
• Try public speaking
• Learn to dress well
• Raise money for a good cause
• Start a creative project – like a short film, a single, or a short story
• Learn a musical instrument
• Make a craptonne of money
• Run a marathon

Good Luck To Me.

Identity is not a password, it’s not root access, it’s not your calendar, it’s not your email, it’s not a technical achievement, it’s not your location, it’s not a user account in a system, it’s not your contacts and it’s not a feature. The First Company To Build Your Identity Into Your Phone Wins The Next Decade

 

- Techcrunch

Once upon a time, no this is not a story but actually few years ago a doctor told me that my mind if wired in a weird way. He said that my reflexes are way too quick than a normal person, in-fact 10 times more faster than an average human being. I seriously don’t know what that means but now i have started to experience it. I wish it was in a good way but now this awesome ability of mine has started to bog me down.

As many of you know, i make sites and since last 1 years i have tried to cut down on outsourcing work and tried to focus on my building own sites. What has happened with me is that i have like tons of ideas in my mind and i work alone and i try to work all those ideas. Yes! Gurus say that you should only focus on one thing at one time so that you can focus on it 100% but as read above problem is with my mind. It’s wired in a weird way. I have become addicted to Multi-tasking.

There are people in Startup world who say they have no idea what to work on. But here i am with 101 ideas in my mind and trying to do all of it at once and that has seriously halted my career. I have made more sites than i count on. Heck, there are complete web applications that are sitting ideal in my Hard drive which i have not even bothered to upload them on internet.

Besides, i don’t have any partner, co-founders, friends, mentors or gangs with whom i can discuss about my ideas and plans and who could tell me what to do and what not do. Half of my friend have no jack shit clue what i do and other half are way busy with what they do. Above that, i live in a small town, so only interaction that i can have with like minded people is either on Twitter or Facebook which you very well know does not compare to real world interaction. Sometimes this feel so much frustrating. I even try/plan to move to bigger city but with my past shenanigans, i fear something bad will happen again or i will break someone’s heart again. I have done that and don’t want to do it again.

So, coming back to Multiple ideas things, right now i have like 10 sites in progress. I made their mockup, coded them in WordPress and they are sitting just like that waiting to be uploaded. As per upload, i don’t know when that will happen. Few days later, my mind will conceive a new idea and i will get down and dirty with it and will probably forget that current 10 sites that i have in process.

I have tried all sorts of project management, time management and every other management thing to do it properly but i think ultimately i will have to wipe out everything and start afresh with just one idea that i truly love and truly want to succeed with.

My family says, do something that makes money. But i have made money and only ability to make money does not excites me anymore. (Yeah, that is a line from The Social Network – Movie) but guess what that actually applies to some people. I may not have millions or billions of dollars but i do know how to make money that will give you a decent life and i don’t want to make money doing things that i don’t like or which has no future. I have already spent 5 years of career working for others and now i just don’t want to do that all over again for rest of my life.

I hope i can set my mind to do one thing and focus my awesome mind in it and do it in the very best way.

Thanks for reading my rant.

If you thought life as a startup founder was all about fun and not being forced to report to a boss then think again:

A new wordpress design gallery that i am working on currently.

Today, i got a request on twitter asking about Social Media Landscape of Nepal. I wrote in detail all the things that i know which is listed here. If you are planning to launch a social media campaign targeting Nepal or just looking to know more about digital landscape of this country then i hope this helps you.

Here are the Q&As:

1) What is the lifestyle of a person from the Middle Income Group in Nepal?
Nepal though looks like a very poor country from outside but Nepal’s middle class is very vibrant and is at par with India. There is though certainly some difference in people of middle class who live in Kathmandu and people who live outside Kathmandu. Average income of people in Kathmandu is around 40% more than that of who live outside KTM i.e. in other parts of Nepal.

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Back in those days when i played cricket i was never a good finisher, i could never consolidate on game and always lacked confidence and had a huge huge inferiority complex because of an invisble force that is why i left that game but now same lack of will power is hunting me all over again and this time its in my work.

I have done a lots of clients work and i do it good at least i think so, have had very few problem when i work for someone else but when i try to work for myself, i mean when i create a website i never launch it. I have 101 ideas in my mind that i can convert to a website and make a healthy business but i never succeed in doing so.

In last 3 years i have worked on over 60 personal projects, i quickly hack a wordpress theme, write content, do all the stuff but at the very last moment i loose all the confidence and just dump the project. Ha, if you search my HDD you might find more business ideas and compete websites than a startup incumbator might have in a year, but the problem is execution. I never execute on them, i never launch.

They say it right, ideas are dime a dozen.. what matters is execution. You have to do it then only it matters or its just an imagination in your mind.

I think this phobia of not launching your own project might have effected to a lot of freelancers out there otherwise we might see many more exciting startups being created which could create a dent in the universe.

One of the major problem with me is i become extremely perfectionist when its comes to designing my own sites. I might not care about how good a site works but i do care that when i create a site it should create a revolution. like WTF!. and i don’t think i am any good designer but still this perfectionist state of mind hurts like hell.

I go through almost 10-15 design changes before i finally settle on one design and by the time i complete the content and basic structure of site that final design as well changes to something totally different.

Besides design, second thing that i always get stuck is with Payment processor. I just can’t go through it. Payment processing is a very very emotional thing to me. I know, you might not understand how payment processing can be emotional but it is to me. I live in Nepal and every Nepali webmaster has this problem with payment processor  and they will understand it very well.

Anyway, enough of the rant, i think i will go and brainstorm some another idea and hack a new wordpress theme for it.

Btw, if you are wondering that despite being a web developer why am i still using the default wordpress theme on this site then i guess you can understand the reason after reading this post. This is my most personal website and i still stuck in that perfectionist state of mind/limbo with it. Just can’t get enough inspiration to create a kick ass design for this blog.

Till then, Cheerio Folks

Michael Jordan having “retired,” with $40 million in endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not.

If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.

If he goes to see a movie, it’ll cost him $7.00, but he’ll make $18,550 while he’s there.

If he decides to have a 5-minute egg, he’ll make $618 while boiling it.

He makes $7,415/hour more than minimum wage.

If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.

If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have to do it at the rate of $200 every second.

He’ll probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be reimbursed $33,390 for that round.

He’ll make about $19.60 while watching the 100-meter dash in the Olympics, and about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon.

This year, he’ll make more than twice as much as all U.S. past presidents for all of their terms combined.

Amazing isn’t it?

However…

If Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 500 years, he’ll still have less than Bill Gates has at this very moment.

Game over. Nerd wins.

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The Hacker Way

As part of building a strong company, we work hard at making Facebook the best place for great people to have a big impact on the world and learn from other great people. We have cultivated a unique culture and management approach that we call the Hacker Way.

The word “hacker” has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in the media as people who break into computers. In reality, hacking just means building something quickly or testing the boundaries of what can be done. Like most things, it can be used for good or bad, but the vast majority of hackers I’ve met tend to be idealistic people who want to have a positive impact on the world.

The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete. They just have to go fix it — often in the face of people who say it’s impossible or are content with the status quo.

Hackers try to build the best services over the long term by quickly releasing and learning from smaller iterations rather than trying to get everything right all at once. To support this, we have built a testing framework that at any given time can try out thousands of versions of Facebook. We have the words “Done is better than perfect” painted on our walls to remind ourselves to always keep shipping.

Hacking is also an inherently hands-on and active discipline. Instead of debating for days whether a new idea is possible or what the best way to build something is, hackers would rather just prototype something and see what works. There’s a hacker mantra that you’ll hear a lot around Facebook offices: “Code wins arguments.”

Hacker culture is also extremely open and meritocratic. Hackers believe that the best idea and implementation should always win — not the person who is best at lobbying for an idea or the person who manages the most people.

To encourage this approach, every few months we have a hackathon, where everyone builds prototypes for new ideas they have. At the end, the whole team gets together and looks at everything that has been built. Many of our most successful products came out of hackathons, including Timeline, chat, video, our mobile development framework and some of our most important infrastructure like the HipHop compiler.

To make sure all our engineers share this approach, we require all new engineers — even managers whose primary job will not be to write code — to go through a program called Bootcamp where they learn our codebase, our tools and our approach. There are a lot of folks in the industry who manage engineers and don’t want to code themselves, but the type of hands-on people we’re looking for are willing and able to go through Bootcamp.

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The examples above all relate to engineering, but we have distilled these principles into five core values for how we run Facebook:

Focus on Impact

If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems. It sounds simple, but we think most companies do this poorly and waste a lot of time. We expect everyone at Facebook to be good at finding the biggest problems to work on.

Move Fast

Moving fast enables us to build more things and learn faster. However, as most companies grow, they slow down too much because they’re more afraid of making mistakes than they are of losing opportunities by moving too slowly. We have a saying: “Move fast and break things.” The idea is that if you never break anything, you’re probably not moving fast enough.

Be Bold

Building great things means taking risks. This can be scary and prevents most companies from doing the bold things they should. However, in a world that’s changing so quickly, you’re guaranteed to fail if you don’t take any risks. We have another saying: “The riskiest thing is to take no risks.” We encourage everyone to make bold decisions, even if that means being wrong some of the time.

Be Open

We believe that a more open world is a better world because people with more information can make better decisions and have a greater impact. That goes for running our company as well. We work hard to make sure everyone at Facebook has access to as much information as possible about every part of the company so they can make the best decisions and have the greatest impact.

Build Social Value

Once again, Facebook exists to make the world more open and connected, and not just to build a company. We expect everyone at Facebook to focus every day on how to build real value for the world in everything they do.

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Petrol Pumps don’t sell us petrol on credit. Each one has to pay money before filling their tanks but still..
Nepal Oil Corporation owns 1.2 Billion NPR to Indian Oil Corporation

Why?

Nepal is suppoed to be Number 1 in Asia in terms of Fresh Water Resources
but still Kathmandu relies of expensive Water Tankers and Mineral Water Bottles.

Why?

Nepal has physical capacity of generating 84,000 Mega Watt of Hydro Electricity
but still we live in 11 Hours a day load-shedding

Why?