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Reflections on 2023

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2023 was a very interesting year for me. The major highlight of the year was that i got laid off from my job at Google, a job which i was very proud of getting and doing. I got the news when i was sitting with Praveen at Coconut Groove at 11 pm one February night. This was not the first time i had gotten fired - i had been fired from my job at Flipkart as well. But this was different - this was for not fault of my own, despite being good at my job and within just 9 months of starting the job.  This lay off was in Feb'23, so just when the year had started. Most of the following 4 to 5 months has been me interviewing to find another job. My first instinct was to try to join back redBus, a job that i had enjoyed more than any other i had. But they were not hiring then. I must have appeared for 150+ interviews over the course of these 4 to 5 months, and i ended up with 2 job offers - from Freshwork and Betterplace. These would not have been companies i would not have keenly considered ...
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The Joy of Ordinary

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I have been stuck at home, like the rest of the world, since the lock down in March. When i mean home, i mean back in my hometown, with my family - the place where i was born, brought up, went to school, made first friends. We have been staying at our current home since 2005. But i have been out, studying and then working. It has taken a pandemic for me to be able to spend more than 3 consecutive months at my home.  Work has demanded more time than before, even if you account for the time saved in not travelling to office. And the raging pandemic has put hard constraints on the things one can do - the compound wall of the house has become the boundaries within which we have to keep ourselves entertained.   The little time i have managed to find for myself outside of work, i have spent in doing very ordinary things - walking in my aangan (yes, our house has one!) , appreciating the colours of the flowers that bloom in our small garden, sitting on my terrace gazing at the e...
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