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It was “take your child to work” today, which meant little kids were running around the office and crying babies were forcing me to use noise-canceling headphones throughout the day. Just kidding, it wasn’t nearly that bad. During lunch I escaped work to go for a bike ride with fellow Googlers participating in the Tour [...]

Spent the weekend in Davis for their annual Picnic Day. Since I’m a Stanford alum, I was a wee bit confused about the “Picnic” part of the day, since there actually wasn’t a picnic. The equivalent event we have is a “Community Day,” which is a catch-all event without leaving people confused on where the [...]

I think there’s definitely a correlation between your work environment and your productivity. I recently moved desks and now I get this view everyday: An astute reader is probably wondering whether this correlation is positive or negative. Wysz and I are much closer to one another, so it’s very easy to talk about work, but [...]

Sunday was gorgeous, wasn’t it? I took advantage of the weather (albeit, it was pretty hot in the direct sun) to go for a long bike ride with Lucy, Wilmot, and two of his high school friends. We left from Lucy’s place in Cupertino and made our way on Foothill Expressway to Sand Hill Road [...]