A coach at gym turned thirty today, and he’s been with the gym for the last 6 and half years. We’ve all see him go from being single to dating, to his fiancé joining the gym, them marrying a couple of years back and them having their first kid a few months back. Not only do I feel old, but I feel like I saw someone grow up around us. Two of the coaches who quit last year also went through similar transitions in life at the gym so I am sincerely hoping he is not on his way out because he is hands down the best coach at the gym.
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Its been hard to get past even the first episode of Foundation S2. All the scenes with the Empire and Lee Pace are so much engrossing that everything else outside of it. Spectacular production quality as always but why does it just feel so dull, just like the first season!
As per tradition tickets to Nolan’s movie for Thursday have been procured. No IMAX but will live with watching Oppenheimer on a larger screen for now. Don’t have patience to go stand in line for a theater in age of reserved seating. Like the one IMAX we have here and it doesn’t do reserved seating – well screw it.
Twitter reminds me of Yahoo of yesteryears and its slow demise. Yahoo didnt just “die”, but the road to its death was slow and jarring. At different times it felt like Yahoo was coming back, but it never materialized into anything meaningful enough to save the sinking ship. Here’s the thing- Its not like Yahoo did *not* try to turn things around, but once a core group of people left, it did not matter whether Yahoo pivoted to media (oh they tried hard!), or Internet town square or whatever BS they could come up with. It was slow, it was painful, but eventually Yahoo became so irrelevant that today’s generation may not even know how big Yahoo was just 10-11 years back.
The only change in Twitter taking a similar trajectory downward is basically how much damage Twitter will do on its way out. Its going down for sure. It may take 3 years or 7 years, but it will be irrelevant to every one except a small subset of people. Its up to people to decide to sink or swim, but the ship is going down sooner or later.
Outer Banks is so stupid that its actually very entertaining because every character in the show is so stupid.
I am ashamed to admit I dont quite understand the difference between *tactical* and *strategic*. My co-PMs use this term a lot and I also drop it a lot but frankly I dont quite understand the difference between the two because I feel like every *tactical* choice I make is also *strategic!*
Looking for a sling bag to hold my passports/pens etc in short term but longer term for keys / wallet / and passport sized things. Any reco? I am torn between a 5L bag vs a true sling.
One of the things about American life that has surprised me is how many couples and families are still together. Growing up in India with western exposure limited mostly to Hollywood and some sports I grew up believing every other marriage in USA ended in divorce, and Americans by definition are not *family* people. It’s a position I held even after coming here for a while, but that has changed so much over the years, and I have been so wrong about it. The families that do stay together here do stay put. The familial bonds are as strong as they can be and I only see younger generation forging more close relationship with their families (when all’s well). It’s been a revelation to me how wrong I was – otherwise I just assumed every other kid was raised by a single parent or had multiple set of parents!!
I honestly dont know why cruises are still accepted as normal in society. Nothing will be more exciting to see 10000 people on Icon of the seas marooned somewhere in the middle of Indian ocean. Maybe they can get their own *Silo*.
Read a comment somewhere on reddit today that got me thinking-
> The reality is that being a human being today, fucking up the environment is an unavoidable part of life.
If fucking up the environment is unavoidable at this point no matter what you do, then the best way to help the earth is to… I guess kill yourself? Sounds depressing!