Weekly Updates - Mar 3 • #100DaysToOffload

I traveled back to the Bay Area in the beginning of the week to celebrate a chapter ending at work. I am excited for the future.

We received our approvals for a US green card to become permanent residents after 14 years. There is a sigh of relief as a big unknown resolved. I sincerely wish anyone in the long queue all the best. While there's no luck of the draw here, it was also essentially bonded labor for me for the past 12 years. I am excited for the freedom.

I better organized Obsidian, continue to be happy about shifting back to a Mac from the iPad.

I continue to be disappointed by Apple and Google. I still remember applying to Google in 2005 in my senior year at college, aiming to be part of the movement. I was successful in 2012. Recently, things are not so great.

While working at Google, there was only one other company I wanted to be part of: Apple. I respected their approach to products: coherent, thoughtful and ultimately - augmenting you as a human. Of late, their thoughtfulness and humanity seems to be lost.

One of the reasons I shifted back to the Mac is because I wanted that freedom of choice to create with my device again. Sure, there are an entire class of people who create with their iPhones and iPads. I just couldn't. Maybe that's more on me.

I finally watched Dune thanks to H. It was a slow burner and I thoroughly enjoyed the world building there. While I went in expecting a bit more sci-fi and less fantasy, the character building and the visuals raptured me.

I'm practicing exercising clarity - in what I want, how I feel and what I share to live a truer life than the past. It's not easy as I quickly run back to what's comfortable. Putting in the hard work and starting to see some beneficial results. There's a lightness to living true that I have gotten a taste of and I want more of.

Saudi Arabia GP was a disaster for my fantasy F1 team. I am at P20/23.. And I need to stop making emotional decisions for the driver. Need a few consistent weeks to be competitive this year.

Hope continues to be strong for the next week.

p.s. trying the week of updates because of Vishnu, Sathya and a couple more folks in the web community and test 1 feels effective and light.

🎧 listened to: Pulse Live; Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water; Break Stuff (continues to be an amazing mood cleanser)

▶️ watched: Wicked Game; Raycast's new AI chat (forming some thoughts on the rush to become the interface for AI); White House State of the Union (this was a good one)

📖 read: Slough House series (Book 1)