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Every year Halloween seems to start earlier and earlier. At some no one’s gonna go out after sun down I feel like.

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The kid’s high school is only 20 min walk away through a residential neighborhood. Yes when she wanted to walk back home today we to ensure that she was not going to walk alone by herself (even in broad daylight), walked with a friend we knew from our community (or, in other words, preferably a white friend though we didn’t say that to her) and walk through main roads where there is traffic. I hope all you economic anxiety nazi morons are happy about this.

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Google’s stock performance is an indicator that eventually Google is the best poised company to win AI wars or be in top contention. They may have been slow to start, but they are the ones to watch for.

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Believe it or not it’s only been 18 years since EC2 came out and changed the computing industry forever. I honestly thought it was older than that!

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I am interviewing for multiple roles within my team and I have been doing phone screens galore, and it’s not lost on me how many of these people have been laid off and are looking for work. My heart breaks when I have to reject them because I know that they would never get past interview loop because they did not do well in phone screen. And I cannot consciously move these folks over just because I feel bad for them. This job market is just brutal and I wish it upon no-one including myself 🙁

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In laws are seeing Kaun Banega Crorepati and man Amitabh Bachchan is charming as ever! I used to be hooked to this in my engineering years and AB still has that wit, charm and presence in carrying this show. He truly enjoys hosting this doesn’t he?

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Rough day today at work but true ground reality is this number could have been 40k and nothing would change. The company would still have exact same velocity as it does today. If there is one thing twitter proved over last few years (and Elon got it right, sadly) is that big tech companies are in fact bloated by design. Most of the work you do is actually immaterial to the bottom line and I can bet that only 25% of the work that happens actually moves the needle. In other words most work is meaningless so if you have a job today it means nothing. I am glad today but I am no way not cognizant of fact that my work at the end of the day is mostly meaningless 😆

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I am feeling slightly better about Spanberger/Hashmi/Jones(iffy) winning elections next week in VA than I was a few weeks ago. Their ads have definitely changed the tone and instead of just being “Trump! trump! trump! I am the only one who can stand against Trump!” laughable rhetoric, all 3 of them have made it more about economy, with a lot of relatable ads. This is much better than it used to be. No matter what you do, you will never get MAGA to vote for you, so they should spend time getting out people they know would vote for them if they actually step out. Looks like their campaign managers may have paid notice after all!

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One of the big side effects of RTO has been that the DC area is not a tech hub anymore. No one wants to move here for tech, nor are there many tech jobs in this area anymore. It feels like the boom of 2015-2023 is pretty much dead at this point. The tech jobs are definitely triangulating back towards Seattle/Bay Area and New York again. Our loss though sigh.