I have been using the 1 second a day app from 2016. Today will be the 8th year of my journey, and it feels very nice to look back at the compiled videos. I don’t remember life in 214/15 because of much stress, but 16 onwards is a colorful memory.
John day! I visit this place almost every summer. Its remote with true dark sky and almost no cell range. You can find some truly gem of places to see around here.
My good memories from 2017 solar eclipse are still etched into my brain:)
Ugh , wait till you hear about green card process for Indians. Despite living here legally for past 15 years, I might have to wait for another 10 to just get permenant residency.
And if it is going to be this hard, why do I have to pay social security and medicare taxes? I call it a donation/yearly fees at this point, working with such a shady system.
My current experience in FAANG for last decade has been anecdotally similar. I have come to one conclusion about people and I put them in 3 categoties-
1. one who have tons of ideas and just enough motivation to implement them.
2. One who are good at maintaining the existing product and are so scared of breaking the boundaries that they often add roadblocks to first category people.
3. People who don’t know jack, and are effective at management, politics and rest and vest.
Often at FAANG, being the beast that they are, the leadership is filled 2nd and 3rd category people. Perhaps that is why you find them good at keeping the lights on, and they satisfy the 1st by buying out the competition.
I, not hyping myself consider to be of first category, but I found going down this path of carving out your ideas is extremely hard. The people at leadership, management are extremely good at politics and portraying themselves bigger than they are. As a result, you need either lot of eng and support team to build anything, or find your way out to develop things on your own and get bought back into FAANG.