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I dare you to eat this horrible diarrhea inducing concoction called [mango dolly dabeli](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpxzkBduUN4/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==)!

Had an excellent day of meetings today where I provided a lot of thought leadership by asking questions like
*How do we scale this 10x?*
*How do we change that behavior?*
*I think its a great start but perhaps we start out with something smaller?*
*We should not be afraid to think big! Why aren’t we thinking big?*
*Will the user care?*
*I think we need to circle back on this and treat it as separate initiative with its own motion, agree?*

This week I connected with a colleague after 3 years and we went to lunch at a local Thai joint that we used to love back then. Both ordered the same dishes as we did, and turns out in the 3 years hence his spice tolerance has increased two fold while mine has decreased five fold. I could barely eat the fried rice I ordered while he was gulping down his basil chicken by adding more spice. Anyway moral of the story is dont go to Thai restaurant with your colleagues.

Golden rule of judging how much time a home project will go on: Take whatever the contractor says and multiply it by two and save yourself some headache. I am yet to meet a contractor who says I will finish the work in X days and it does not end up taking 2X days. Not one. Which begs the question why do they even give a stupid estimate?

People justifying *why* they watched the trump town hall because they wanted to see how *it played out* is exactly why people are still on Twitter. You know *exactly* how it’s going to play out on Twitter, heck you even predicted it multiple times, but you stuck around to *see how it all plays out*. Trump is exactly the same – what has changed in the last 7 years that you didn’t know how dumpster fire would turn out? But sure stay to see how it all plays out because that’s exactly crap companies like CNN know what people want.

Dad is watching Karnataka election news on TV with great interest. There’s a panel of some 8 people on TV all of them yelling and shouting at one another. I cannot make out ONE word or what anyone is saying and somehow dad is magically making out what every one of them is saying with full clarity. Indian hearing has evolved to such a degree that I won’t be surprised if next generation Indians born today will have better hearing than dogs or wolves!

Remember that half this country is very ok with gunmen killing innocent children in school or adults and still defend their guns, and you expect me to believe the same people will not defend a president who raped and still not vote for him? Glad he was held accountable but unless he is in jail or loses by 10-15 points it all hardly matters. It’s not like Nazis developed conscience suddenly and discovered what Hitler was doing – they knew and they were complicit. Republicans are modern day nazis, so not like this matters.

Week two of RTO and people are already thinning out. As our skip level leader say it best – *People are voting with their feet*. Companies just need to adapt that RTO is here to stay and when the talent marketplace opens up post this downturn, good folks will quit in favor of quality of life and productivity. I personally don’t mind coming to work a couple of times a week but I am right now only doing it because a) I have a 20 min drive though backroads which is beautiful and gives me time to listen to music & unwind while driving and b) I dont have to stay entire day at work. Take away both of those perks and I would not enjoy it at all. I am not going to drive into fucking DC for work!

I see a lot of people (and frankly mostly desis) who post in our travel channel with message like “*I am planning on traveling to X place for a week. Please recommend a itinerary or things to do there*”, and I read it and think why the fuck are you even going somewhere for a week if you don’t already know what you want to do there?!

[Oppenheimer](https://youtu.be/uYPbbksJxIg) trailer looks terrific. I am really hoping Nolan pulls this off!