It was Halloween this past weekend, which is normally a holiday I’m mildly interested in. I don’t have kids to take trick-or-treating, and well, putting together a costume is a lot more work than I am capable of doing with my limited set of creative-skills.
Luckily, this year, Kolina took charge and created some awesome, home-made [...]
It’s halfway through September and I’ve realized that I haven’t written a blog entry for a few weeks – there’s a reason for that. The past few weeks have been insanely busy: working lots of hours (today I was in the office from 8:30AM to 11:15PM) and trying to make the most of weekends. If [...]
A colleague of mine shared an excellent article from Paul Graham on meetings. I highly recommend reading it if you find yourself in a lot of meetings throughout the day.
Reading the article could not have come at a better time for me – as I’ve found myself taking on more meetings, I’ve found almost 50% [...]
On Tuesday, as part of Googleserve, a group of coworkers headed out to Half Moon Bay to help clear the area of invasive mustard and ice plants. It was a lot more work than I initially anticipated, but the lot of us made a sizeable impact, pulling out a ton of these plants with hoe-matics [...]
Transitioning back to life in the Bay Area magnifies what things I grew accustomed to while abroad – walking to work, hearing Irish/Indian accents, paying with Euros or Rupees, and living out of a suitcase.
I don’t have much to say besides that. Trying to get settled back at work in Mountain View and doing all [...]