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I was fully invested in 2016 and 2020 election year, but I am making a conscious effort not to be so involved in 2024, for my own mental sanity, and more importantly, nothing will fundamentally change about my vote. The issues that I cared about in ’12, ’16’, 20, ’24 are exactly the same and will remain the same in future also and it aligns more closely with democrats than republicans. Why even bother investing time in listening to anything republican candidates or party has to say anymore because the only thing they’ve proven is how they are turning into repulsive humans (if they can be called that) year after year.

So yeah, IDGAF what Vivek or Nikki says, what Trump says/does at this point. I am of firm opinion that the American society is spiraling into a inevitable decay thanks to the rot that republicans have sown into it. My only role (&hope) is to delay this as much as possible by making sure my vote counts in ’24 and canvas/educate others around me (in my own capacity) about perils of voting anyone but democrats anywhere – from school boards, to state elections to national. Thats all I can do, and I will do.

A less talked about fact is how wage growths have kept up or crossed inflation at this point, even if it doesnt feel like it. Case in point – this week we offered the role to this young graduate with masters and minimal work exp (<2 years) a role in my team. Her total comp package is larger than the first total comp package I got when I joined this company in 2016! And I joined two levels higher, and with more than 10+ years experience already under the belt. When the offer first came out for me to approve, my jaws legit dropped to the floor, but I am also so so happy to see that kind of package rolled out. I am glad that younger folks are starting out at a much higher base wage and that is how it should be.

Sometimes the best thing you as a leader or a manager can do is to simply…. get out of the way.

Ordered furniture for my office but I am just dreading assembling it.

European tech workers who move to the USA really struggle here. Multiple people were rated bottom of the performance curve not because they did anything necessarily bad, but just that American workers work way harder to their detriment. Europeans still work with the European mindset which just does not translate equivalently sadly. I guess these engineers are figuring out the hard way why the American counterpart engineer is also paid way more 😆

Day 3 of swim meet over. This was not bad and I got a lot of errands done so it didn’t feel like it was long, plus commute is not bad either. The next one in college park campus is the most gargantum suck in a few weeks. That’s the one I truly hate!

Day three of swim meet so you all will hear a lot more from me today coz I have nothing to do between races!

I am not sold on BlueSky just yet. My fear is that invariably in a year or two all the nazis from twitter will follow over to BlueSky because if they don’t who’s gonna give them the attention and how are they going to rage bait people? In that sense do I really want to invest my time in BlueSky only to be disappointed anyway? Am I not just happy hanging around in small corner of the world? or maybe I will just use BlueSky to simply connect with people I like but nothing more.

Jen O’Malley gets way more credit than she should. In a favorable pandemic environment Biden barely barely sneaked out a win. In 2024 she misfired completely. I hope we have seen the last of her in campaign politics!

A hard workout yesterday and then half day of swim meet where I was just walking up and down nonstop = exhausted today. And I have another day of swim meet to go!