Losing 50% At the start of 2024, I switched teams within Meta — from Ads, where I’d spent over half a decade, to Instagram Stories.“Same company” I thought, “should be a breeze, right?” Turns out, at Meta’s scale, this kind…
We’re naturally drawn to acts of kindness we can see. Imagine a man at a busy intersection, helping elderly people cross the street. He’s not asking for anything in return, and people walking by can’t help but admire him. “What…
Unincorporated Man: Fiction usually isn’t my go-to genre, but this book was a standout this year. Set 300 years in the future, it explores a world where people are incorporated at birth and strive to earn back a majority share…
Why should we pour billions into space exploration while millions starve on Earth? It’s a debate between ‘raising the floor‘ — improving baseline living standards of masses — vs ‘raising the ceiling‘ — pushing the boundaries, often reserved for the…
Capturing the Milky Way through your lens is undeniably one of life’s most amazing experiences. But even if you’re not aiming to photograph it, simply sitting under a starlit sky offers its own profound rewards. I’m a big advocate for…
I joined Facebook as a software engineer in 2016, before Trump’s election, before Cambridge Analytica. It was, without a doubt, the best company to work for in the valley at that time. There was no negative press towards it; people…
Its hard to believe how many politically charged conversations I’ve been part of in last 5 years where people arguing have been 100% convinced that their favorite political party is right about EVERY social and economic issue. It’s common to…
Most Software Engineers stay in their job on an average 2 years. Most of the FAANG companies, at least the one’s I’ve worked for, issue new hardware every 2 years. It is almost guaranteed that you will be setting up…
I found the concept of acclemetization day quite fascinating. As you reach a higher elevation in the mountains, you have trouble breathing, you don’t feel like eating or drinking much. In order to acclimatize yourself, you climb about 1000ft on…
Sports have played an important role in my life. As a kid, it was the most important thing, my only religion. As I grew up, I notice it has started to matter less and less. Watching games has become a…