Mental peace is not about being silent- It is about creating boundaries and your own kingdom and no one is allowed to enter.
The process is difficult to start, messy in middle and golden at the end, You have to cut people who are draining your energy. I hope you shine like Sun. #astrology
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
To the proud people of Iran,
We are in the midst of one of the greatest military operations in history, Operation Rising Lion.
The Islamic regime, which has oppressed you for almost 50 years threatens to destroy our country, the State of Israel.
The objective of Israel's operation is to thwart the Islamic regime's nuclear and ballistic missile threat to us.
As we achieve our objective we are also clearing the path for you to achieve your freedom.
In the past 24 hours, we have taken out top military commanders, senior nuclear scientists, the Islamic regime's most significant enrichment facility and a large portion of its ballistic missile arsenal.
More is on the way.
The regime does not know what hit them, or what will hit them.
It has never been weaker.
This is your opportunity to stand up and let your voices be heard.
10 Lessons from Rose Blumkin:
1. A Taste for Saltwater: What separates exceptional people is their capacity to endure discomfort. Rose walked barefoot for 18 miles at the age of 13 to save her only pair of shoes. Later, she opened a furniture store during the Depression, rebuilt after a fire gutted half her building, and came to work the day after breaking her ankle at 97. Most people avoid pain; outliers use it as fuel.
2. High Agency: Most people see circumstances as fixed; high-agency people see them as variables. When Depression-era customers couldn’t afford shotguns, Rose didn’t complain about the economy; she created a rental program overnight. The line stretched around the block the next morning. High agency isn’t magical thinking; it’s the refusal to accept artificial constraints.
3. Bias Toward Action: While average performers wait for perfect conditions, exceptional ones create momentum through immediate action. After a devastating fire, Rose didn’t wait for the dust to settle; instead, she said, “We’re opening tomorrow” and turned disaster into a successful sale. When business slowed during the Korean War, she rented the city auditorium and cleared $250,000 in three days. Action creates options that passivity never discovers.
4. Bounce, Don’t Break: When wholesalers refused to sell to Rose, calling her a “bootlegger”. She embraced it: “You betcha. I’m the best bootlegger in town!” and she found backdoor suppliers. When competitors sued her, she turned the courtroom into free advertising. Resilience isn’t about avoiding knockdowns; it’s about how you use them as launching pads.
5. Dark Hours: Excellence happens when nobody’s watching. Rose cleaned stores before dawn as a teenager and inspected every carpet shipment personally into her 90s. She once detected yarn theft at a mill supplier just by feeling that a carpet was slightly underweight. The public sees the outcome, but never the work.
6. Your Reputation Is the Room: Rose understood that your reputation creates opportunities before you even enter the conversation. Military officers stationed across the world would buy furniture sight unseen because “Mrs. B doesn’t lie.” A judge who ruled in her favor bought carpet the next day. Your reputation isn’t what you claim; rather, it’s the collective experience others have of you, and it determines which rooms you walk into.
7. Choose the Right Co-Pilot: Partnerships are force multipliers. Isadore balanced Rose’s intensity with steady customer service principles. Warren Buffett bought her business on a handshake with no audit because character recognition works both ways. The right partners don’t just add to your strengths; they compensate for your weaknesses while amplifying your impact.
8. It Takes What It Takes: Every exceptional achievement has a non-negotiable price. Rose worked 12-hour days until age 103, calling work her “narcotic.” At a luncheon honoring her, she stood up at 1:15 and announced, “What’s wrong with you people? Don’t you have jobs? I’m going back to work.” Ordinary results come from ordinary effort; extraordinary results demand unreasonable commitment.
9. Focus Is a Superpower: In today’s fractured attention economy, Rose’s single-minded concentration would be her greatest advantage. She had one tab open—her business—while competitors scattered their attention across multiple priorities. This wasn’t mere workaholism; it was the strategic elimination of distractions, creating depth of knowledge that no competitor could match.
10. Simple Scales, Fancy Fails. Rose’s business philosophy fit on an index card: “Sell cheap, tell the truth, don’t cheat customers.” While competitors built complex systems and layers of management, her straightforward approach eliminated friction. Complex businesses move slowly; simple ones can scale with less overhead and fewer decision bottlenecks.
I worked in Gujarat for 2 years.
I had visited shops, markets, restaurants, interacted with thousands of Gujarati people speaking in Hindi.
I was always responded to with kindness and in Hindi. Not a single Gujarati ever forced me to speak Gujarati. Around me even my colleagues would talk in Hindi so that I would not feel left out.
The Gujaratis of Saurashtra taught me to celebrate Makar Sankranti from morning till evening. They also taught me that drinking umpteen cups of chai and eating gathai was essential if you visit someone's home. And sharing food is second nature to them. Also Krishna Janmashtami is the grandest celebration there.
Thank You Gujarat.
Thank You, Saurashtra. ❤️🙏
Jai Jai Garvi Gujarat.
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To those who keep counter-arguing the foundational horoscope of modern nations—
First, please understand a little bit of astrology. And not just personal astrology—mundane astrology, which deals with nations, politics, and global events.
Your emotional rant—“India existed before 1947” and all that—is historically and spiritually true. But that’s not the point.
The horoscopes we use today for countries like India are based on their declared political identity—as a Republic, a sovereign state. That’s why the 15th August 1947 chart is relevant.
Even great scholars like K.N. Rao and B.V. Raman have used these charts extensively—not out of convenience, but because they hold astrological weight.
Yes, Varahamihira referred to Capricorn as the sign of the Indian subcontinent. But after partition, a new karmic timeline began. We must respect that as a reference point in time.
Earlier, royal astrologers used the charts of kings and kingdoms. Now, we use national charts in the same spirit—for Dharma, Karma, and future direction.
So instead of emotional dismissals, try learning the tradition first.
Don’t be an ignorant smarty with loud opinions and zero grounding. 🙏
You can't understand your SQL query performance by looking at the SQL code. You need the execution plan.
Take the SQL : select id from student where grade >= 99
It doesn’t tell you how fast it will run.
If there isn’t an index on the grade column, it will do a full table scan taking multiple seconds depends on how many rows it returns.
Add an index on the grade field, run the same query now it takes few seconds
Make it a covering index (add id as included column to the grade index) and now it’s an index only scan even faster.
Insert a million students into the table and re execute the query immediately (don’t give a chance for MVCC garbage collection to run) and the query will slow down again, because we need to go to the heap to see if the row is visible.
In all the four examples above the backend app code running the query didn’t change, same code, same query.
However, the performance of the query varies every time based on the state of the database.
The execution plan tells us what how the SQL was executed in each of those four examples. It is the key.