Prashanth Udupa

Learnings & Experiences

  • MacBook Pro – the best notebook I have ever bought!

    On February 2013, I bought a 15″ MacBook Pro Retina Display Notebook. It came with a 512GB solid state drive, 16 GB of RAM, 2.7 GHz i7 processor running Mac OS 10.8. Over the years I have upgraded the OS to Mavericks and now Yosemite. It will be 2 years since I bought the laptop in…

  • Deploy your dreams into the world

    On 13th September 2014, I gave a talk on “Deploying your dreams” to a group of 60+ 2nd year MCA students at BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru. The talk was organised as a part of “Entrepreneurship Development” drive at BMS-MCA Department, where their intention is to groom students to graduate as entrepreneurs.

  • All the self-improvement programs…

    I have gone through a lot of self-improvement, self-actualisation, self-realisation and “enlightenment” courses in my 33 years of life. The first self-improvement program I attended was when I was 15 years old! I recently finished my almost 5 year stint at Landmark, of which 1.5 years was as a Introduction Leader. At this point –…

  • Freedom vs Independence

    I have spent a long time in my life confusing freedom and independence. I recently distinguished for myself the difference between the two. And when I distinguished it for myself – a whole new world of being human opened up. Stated simply: Independence is the ability to be and do, without barriers / obstruction /…

  • I experience this world through my organism and yours and everybody else’s..

    I am truly indebted to the conversation of Mastery in Life generated by Werner Erhard. Towards the end of that event – he engaged all of us in a conversation that allowed me to experience “who I am” in a whole new way. Almost two years later, I participated in “Direct Access” (a program from Landmark Education) where my…

  • Existentialism

    Ever since I did the Landmark Forum in 2009, I have been curious as to know the source of their material. I looked around in libraries, book shops and Wikipedia for hints. Any book that had “Nothingness”, “Racket”, “Strong Suit”, “Being”, “Possibility” in its title or content was catching my attention. I also bought a…

  • Simple JSON Parser / Serializer in Qt

    Today XML and JSON are hot formats for data exchange. While Qt natively supports XML, it doesnt support JSON (well directly). Most developers use external libraries like qjson to serialize QVariantMap objects to a json-string and parse json-string into QVariantMap. One of the key disadvantages of using qjson (or maybe even other libraries) is the…

  • My Philosophy vs Your Philosophy!

    Philosophy becomes a subject matter of interest when we end up asking two very important questions to ourselves. (1) What is life (or more specifically my life) all about? and (2) How should I live? Once we start our careers, earn some money and gather some property (home / stuff-for-home / car / other fancy…

  • Living a Transformed Life

    Every aspect of “living” is a present-continuous process. For example: breathing, heart-beat, sleeping, eating food etc. In order live, one has to be breathing. It doesnt matter if one has been breathing for the last 10 years – if one isnt breathing right now, he is dead! Living a transformed life is just like that.…

  • Moving at the speed of time!

    Suppose that you are standing by the tree in front of your house. Suppose that a cycle and car pass by you in the same direction. You would probably observe two things: both the cycle and the car passed by you and the car moved faster than the cycle. If you dwell on this for…

  • Compilation of Steve Jobs Talks

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  • World Wide Economy Collapse – Explained!

  • Very interesting interview of Hrithik Roshan

    ‎”on the contrary, it’s only through damaging the ego completely, and nullifying it, and then realizing that you’re still alive and it doesn’t mean anything, that you realize that it’s [the ego] not important…” – Hrithik Roshan Read the full interview here- http://timesofindia.indiatimes​.com/entertainment/bollywood/n​ews-interviews/We-couldnt-affo​rd-rent-Hrithik-Roshan/article​show/9492955.cms

  • The problem of “Come and Do it for me!”

    In most of my blog-posts, I make it a point to write directly about myself. The idea there is to not generalize what I notice in myself for the rest of humanity. But then there are some observations that we can make that holds good for a large section of the population – which includes…

  • Machinery of the “Brain”

    I have been reading this book called Tell-a-tale Brain from V. S. Ramachandran. I must say that his books are just as pleasing to read as it is to listening to his talks. The book brings together the author’s findings from several years of research about the human brain. With interesting tales, research findings and…