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The people I follow on Instagram are the same people I bitch about on micro.blog so now the fact that half the family wants to follow me on Instagram is already a debbie downer for me lol. I can see why they did that, but it just makes it feel like when Google+ launched and they forced the whole circle nonsense on us based on existing gmail contacts and refused to let the social network grow organically. Feels like threads gonna have that same fate already.

Its been almost a year since I left the startup and joined back the mothership. When I had joined the startup, they had just gotten a new round of big funding, became a tech unicorn in education space and showed immense promise. They were making good hires, setting up for scale and product growth. Except none of that happened. Thanks to a completely wayward egomanic CEO, everything fell apart so quickly within a year that a majority of executives quit. Luckily for me I had an opportunity to jump ship but boy has it fallen even further. I sometimes look at Glassdoor reviews for the company are they depict an entirely miserable workplace and I feel so bad because some of the most passionate people I worked with also worked there. There are still people working there I am in touch with and they paint an outlook thats even worse than Glassdoor suggests. My own personal experience at the startup has taken away all my interest and enthusiasm I had for startups after being in big enterprises for so long. Now I feel like working here is slow, but at least not chaotic!

Its incredible, in first 6 months of the year I read 4 books. This is a historic achievement for me – maybe just maybe I can go back to my reading days again! I like the signs. I have micro.blog to thank a lot for this honestly!

Men more often than women tend to show off their *practical* side because they feel that thats what let them make better decisions. I value rationality in anyone, but honestly think it makes people boring when they become *too* practical and I see more men belong to that club than women. Every decision is rational decision for them, and nothing is worth doing if its not practical enough. Even the low stakes decisions in life become rooted in practicality instead of you know…. just winging it and seeing how it goes. Its ok to make emotional decisions as well, and its ok to feel elated or dejected if that emotional decision pan out, but how much more boring is to make a decision thats so rooted in rationalism that there is nothing novel anymore to find out. We men could do better than just play that *rational* card all the time and learn to make *emotional* decisions that may or may not pan out. Its ok, its life not a math test.

Finished Silo last night and such a *LOST* feel to it. We enjoyed the series but are left with familiar feelings post mystery box reveal. The fact that its based on a completed book series gives me hope that they’ll not turn it into an extended drama and it will have a sensible end.

Mowed the lawn, took out the burgers, I am all sweaty and cooling it off with a beer. I think I am finally doing my country’s Independence Day right!

Thanks to SCOTUS, we were told (no less on Indepedence day via an email) not to build any features that feels like we are violating *affirmative action* ruling, *to be on the safe side*. Happy independence day ya’all.

Why do couples repost each others stories on Instagram? Is it like some marriage or couple code that necessities this? If I am following you likely I am following your partner also now I get to the same story 4 times because she re shares what you shared and you reshare what she shared and now my Instagram story feed is full of your stupid kid doing stupid things (but cute to you)!

Finished *Recursion* in a single sitting today because my kid was waiting on me, and the moment I finished she says *isn’t it reading a mash of Inception and Tenet put together?*; and I don’t think I could have summarized the book better! I enjoyed reading it as a time pass book but yeah def felt like it was written to be made into a eventual tv show or movie.

Apparently some rando professor in some rando university in America said something about Modi and my extended family WhatsApp has lit up with messages about what that rando said. My goodness the amount of validation Modi’s supporters seek out of west about him is so sad and pitiful. Like jeez, he’s the leader of the largest democracy in the world, one of the fastest growing economies in the world and you want validation from a random white bloke in the west? How desperate are you really!