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My first ever podcast...

 I travel almost one and a half hours a day. It was such a waste of time for me, going through the same roads, travelling the same distance all day. There was no time left for me after my office hours for anything new. Then I got the idea of podcasts. I started listening to name a few and fell in love with the idea of it. I started searching for the best podcasts on the internet and found out one gem, which was released back in April 2018. "The Caliphate", by Rukmini Kallimachi. Rukmini Callimachi is a Romanian born American journalist who is working for The New York Times. Back in 2014, she started her reporting on Islamic extremism and then focused on Al Queda and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). after years of research and study and battling through tough times of reporting, she published a podcast series named "The Caliphate" back in April 2018 with proofs of her findings and the way she got them. "The Caliphate" was a series focused mainly on a

The work from home/office dilemma

 Covid hit us like anything we have seen in our entire life...(I am talking about people of my age..). The entire daily routine of an average programmer who writes code for a living just shifted itself from one dimension to an entire another one. They were thrown from their ever so normal routine of going to an office block, and then back home once the work is done. And by home I mean a rented one. But Covid just played its game, and we are all back home, where we wished to spend our time most of the time. Now we had two things most individuals are too cared about. A monthly income and a safe place to sleep. There is no spending on rent or extra junk food that we may have bought if we were alone in our other "home". We all loved this idea of remote work.  But is it all good? Well... I mean, it's all good and all that we spend most of our time with our beloved. But is that all for a human being who is at his precious youth? Aren't we allowed to take risks now? Aren'