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I recently finished 3 months at the new company and my god this has been the most stressful 3 months ever. In hindsight if I had any inclination it was gonna go down like this I would not have left the mothership. How’s the workplace you ask? Absolutely pathetic. This is the second time I have left Amazon and I already feel like going back there – and it’s the same feeling so many of us ex folks in this company have now. The tech world has become a lowest common denominator world at this point. Just disappointing considering the product itself is so good and well known.

A senior executive from a company hounded me for weeks to get time with me to talk about a role at his company. We met on zoom today and 5 minutes into convo we both realized he got the wrong guy with same first name and last name. I exactly know who he was trying to get to coz he is active on LinkedIn and is as old as me probably but it was a hilarious mix up on his end. We laughed about it and ended our call. I mean the only reason I was getting on call was to tell him gently I am not interested in the role he was offering but I did find his company interesting.

In other news two weeks ago Best Buy was running some crazy trade in promotion on MacBook airs that I ended up trading in my m2 MacBook Air 13” in lieu of m5 MacBook Air 13” and I paid like 475$ total. That one day sale didn’t happen again and I am glad I jumped at it – every which way the specs on m5 are better not just with processor but with 16gb ram and 512 ssd compared to m2 / 8gb / 256gb.

This 2 week enforced break from social media actually felt good! I uninstalled BlueSky and Mona 2 weeks ago and did not check once. I disabled all echo feeds as well. I feel refreshed enough that I’d like more of this! Also, this break was partly inspired by this beautifully done Pinterest ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr8bNBuptpU