Ranjit K. Sharma

✍️ Author of 33 books | Editor | Curriculum Expert
🧘‍♂️ Education, AI, Interfaith Spirituality
🚀 Building the future of learning
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[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

20 years of bookmarks. Gone in one password reset.

Formatted Windows → reinstalled Firefox → could not remember password → hit “Forgot password”.

That is when I learned the hard way: Firefox Sync encrypts your data with your password. Reset the password and Mozilla permanently deletes the cloud copy. No recovery. No support ticket. Nothing.

Sync is not a backup.

If you use Firefox (or any encrypted sync):
■ Export bookmarks to HTML regularly and keep copies in 2+ places
■ Don’t treat Sync as your only safety net
■ Never reset the password until you have exported from a device that still has the data

I shared this so no one else loses years of research, links, and references the same way.

Have you been burned by “the cloud”? How do you actually back up the things you cannot afford to lose?

#Firefox #DataBackup #TechTips #Productivity #DigitalHygiene #LessonsLearned #BackupStrategy #KnowledgeManagement

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

@Maya_fitgurl @X

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

@Maya_fitgurl Yes. My entire 23+ years are dedicated to writing and editing, a majority of which were spent on curriculum books / textbooks for school children.

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

These seem like excellent suggestions for optional, digital-only B2C learning solutions. However, what we are building is fundamentally different: an integrated learning ecosystem designed for the formal school system. It will include:

- Graded, high-quality printed textbooks.
- Separate, platform-agnostic apps for students, teachers, parents, and school management and leadership.
- Wearable devices as a potential future addition.

I also wanted to revisit one of your earlier suggestions:

“Set up the lessons so that students have to perform a task 2–5 times per minute. Keep text short. Long passages of text with little calls for student response is death.”

While I understand the underlying principle of active engagement, I find this recommendation quite challenging to implement in the context of a comprehensive, year-long syllabus mandated by the government under the National Education Policy (NEP) and the National Curriculum Framework (NCF).

More importantly, I wonder whether designing learning experiences around such a high frequency of student responses might inadvertently reinforce the already declining attention spans of children, rather than help them develop the ability to sustain attention, engage in deep thinking, read longer passages, and reflect meaningfully.

Shouldn't a well-designed learning system strike a balance between active engagement and the cultivation of sustained attention, concentration, independent thinking, and deeper learning?

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

@DaveVanStory @_mayabuilds @X Sure. Thanks for sharing!

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

@Maya_fitgurl Great ad! Self-explanatory. Yet the suggestions you have already received can make it even better. A few suggestions from me: See if you can enlarge the fonts a bit for better visibility. Add a CTA , if possible.

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

Feeling honored. Teaching and learning always go together. An instructor is learning too: how to explain things better to their weakest students, and how to cover the syllabus on time. A manager mentoring new junior team members learns how to give better briefings and orientations, so projects are completed on time and at higher quality.

P.S. My previous post had a typo: “Teacher and learning...” should have read “Teaching and learning...”

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

@_mayabuilds @X Glad you found this interesting ... It's currently incorporated as a private limited company, but it's still pre-MVP and pre-seed (bootstrapped). We are in the process of completing some self-proclaimed internal due diligence before raising funds.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The invisible force made visible

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

@Maya_fitgurl Thanks!

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

@Maya_fitgurl Glad you found this interesting ... It's currently incorporated as a private limited company, but it's still pre-MVP and pre-seed (bootstrapped). We are in process of completing some self-proclaimed internal due diligence before raising funds.

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

@vijayshekhar @AarushYadav47 Super! Congratulations to the young innovator!🎉

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

@SuparnaSharma @PulitzerPrizes Congratulations! 🎉

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

🌍 This Is Earth's Geoid — a Model of Its Gravity Field, Not Its Actual Shape!

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

@Invisiblee22 @grok This is AI-generated.

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

@MaximLevoshin I'm building an ed-tech that connects the power of curriculum books with the magic of AI for uplifting the human experience. The idea is to leverage technology to give back children their reading and writing habits.

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

@firefox @mozilla I just lost 20 years of bookmarks after a password reset wiped the Sync data. Is there truly no recovery option in cases like this, or is there anything users should know to avoid permanent loss?

[Ranjit K. Sharma @ranjitksharma]

20 years of bookmarks. Gone in one password reset.

Formatted Windows → reinstalled Firefox → could not remember password → hit “Forgot password”.

That is when I learned the hard way: Firefox Sync encrypts your data with your password. Reset the password and Mozilla permanently deletes the cloud copy. No recovery. No support ticket. Nothing.

Sync is not a backup.

If you use Firefox (or any encrypted sync):
■ Export bookmarks to HTML regularly and keep copies in 2+ places
■ Don’t treat Sync as your only safety net
■ Never reset the password until you have exported from a device that still has the data

I shared this so no one else loses years of research, links, and references the same way.

Have you been burned by “the cloud”? How do you actually back up the things you cannot afford to lose?

#Firefox #DataBackup #TechTips #Productivity #DigitalHygiene #LessonsLearned #BackupStrategy #KnowledgeManagement