Mysterious "Other" folder occupying huge space in MacOS

The macOS shows up a mysterious huge space for "Other" when we get into manage storage. 

It is quite a bit of headache for folks with low SSD space (128/256 GB).

My search went in vain for a long time until I spotted about Grandperspective on an old archived reddit post. 

Though there are tons of other apps that claim to clean your mac space, I specifically suggest you to go for Grandperspective. 

Why Grandperspective ?

• Open source 
• Decent reviews
  

You do get a free version outside of App Store too. I downloaded through App Store though. 

What does it actually do ?

It gives a visual representation of files according to the size. Be careful when you are deleting stuff. Delete only stuff that you are sure of no use. I discovered one of my app was storing a lot of info in temporary cache that ran into GBs. 

 

Twitter: delete a retweet or undo a retweet !!!

Holy twitter!!! I had accidentally retweeted one post. How do you remove that retweet from my profile. Twitter has a confusing UI. And my Google search took more than few clicks to the top pages to final get the trouble shoot.
As easy as retweeting and exactly opposite !!!
Just press on retweet again on the tweet you have retweeted. Magic, you get the option to undo the retweet as below.
I cracked it and hopefully many you also will be able to do it swiftly.

Permanent tattooing: How does this occur ?

A TedEd video on how permanent tattooing occur.



Personally I am against permanent tattooing. Not that I have anything against tattooing but everything against permanency of it. What if you do not like it after few years? What is the need to alter your look permanently? I would theorize the most vocal proponents of permanent tattooing are deeply insecure about something. They might not be in tune with their own appearance or psychological image.
If a pro tattoo individual is enraged by my words, then the above theory holds good for them. If they are not, then every theory has a corollary. They are the ones who deserve to have permanent tattoos.

Just created a new label called "HABITS"

I think this is very important in anyone's life. How many of the good things have you automated (read habit formation) in your life.
The growth happens when you have a net positive automated tasks in your life.
Exponential growth occurs when you have only positive automated tasks most of the times with minimal/nil negative automated thoughts.
The brain and the synaptic plasticity
Synaptic plasticity was one of the amazing feature that I read about in my post graduation days. Probably when I was reading about some CNS pharmacology. Will go and learn more about this in the coming days. Yeah will use it positively in the coming days ;)

Automate the habits

Automate the decision process: the default is "YES" 

• Get up early in the morning: YES 
• Do exercise: YES 
• Keep room tidy: YES

Only under exceptional circumstances, we need to change the "YES" to "NO". This saves a ton of energy on your decision making muscle.

I have been experimenting with these ideas for long. Let me see how these things turn on the long run.

As of now, I have excellent results in the short-medium run.
Highest distance covered in a week/month/year biking. Hopefully I adopt 20 kms (12.5 miles)/ day as default "YES" in the coming days.

 
 

Mindset: FIxed vs Growth

An excellent illustration of fixed vs growth mindset.
"Never mind if you had failed ever, get up now and try again".
 

File ITR-2 if you are a company director

FY 2018-2019/ Assessment year 2019-2020
File ITR-2 for your income tax returns if you are a director of the company. According to this cleartax article, it is clear that director's of a company needs to file this ITR-2 form.
More, more and more paper work
Sweat the individuals more and more so that they do not cheat the system. I do not in my opinion think that this is ever going to help the economy. But instead why not simplify it. Why have so many filings to MoCA, and same filings to IT department. The MoCA has director's DIN and PAN. Why not autofill it in the ITR form. Why so many forms? Youtube videos guiding us which ITR form to fill gets tons of views. Why not make it easier for taxpayers to file returns.
Well it is a kind of rant. The process should be simplified 1000 times. Automated at 100 levels. Automatically fill up details like how TRACES works for TDS. When are we going to see this happen ?