In Pursuit of Wisdom

 

I had a great company offsite #twinfest2020 in Phoenix, Arizona last week where I met face-to-face our colleagues, coaches, leaders - many of whom for the first time after I joined Twin Health 7 months back. This was really a moment to connect and validate our shared purpose of #reversediabetes and chronic diseases. I drove from Sam francisco Bay Area last Monday and now on my way back home. Looking forward to next year’s twin fest! My favorites from this #twinfest was fireside chat with Kevin Johnson, karaoke, what's coming in future...

 

 

 

 It's been 3 months I joined #twinhealth and enjoying my work here. I was featured today in our Twin Health LinkedIn page. Ashik Uzzaman  we are so happy to have you as both a people and engineering leader. Among his many contributions; Ashik organized and leads a Leadership Guild where Twins are welcome to join and benefit from  collaborative professional development.  

Finally I received delivery of Tesla Model S yesterday. I have been anticipating this for the last five months. When I closed my house purchase during Christmas last year, I pre-ordered this car immediately after that on 28th December. Due to the high demand of electric vehicles and particularly of Tesla, it's uncertain how long it may take for you to get your car. I got a chance all on a sudden in February 2022 to take the delivery. However, that was just a few days before I went to visit Bangladesh and so asked for a late time to take the delivery. Since then I came back from Bangladesh in March, I have been counting days for this. The wait is over now. It started with the fact that I noticed visiting our new house (that time we didn't know we could buy this house or not) we had a Tesla wall charger hanging near the garage which was from the seller. So instead of the house, I started researching on Tesla EVs. While initially I was looking for Model 3, I changed my mind durin...

We had a nice social event for US Engineering event yesterday in our Mountain View head quarter of Twin Health followed by a hiking in Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve which is within 10 miles of our office. I was part of team dragon; we were 3rd out of 5 teams while fullstackers won. First we started with a hybrid team game organized by Weve , virtual team event. We got divided into 5 different groups - fullstackers, teamslow, one team, samuel and dragon. Talia, the event organizer, skillfully made us hunt treasures, count objects, identify differences from similar images, make rainbows etc. It was fun! This was followed by a light refreshment that our CTO Terry Poon arranged for us. While having refreshment, I had a game of chess with my colleague John Ngoi that had a good audience. I was white and I won the game against John that started with King's Gambit opening. Then 14 of us drive to Rancho San Antonio and did a group hiking that took a little mor...

I and Shusmita attended the talk of Dr Jordan B Peterson in San Francisco April 20th. He is one of the most renowned speakers in contemporary times. I have read his books 12 rules for life and beyond order with much interest. There is hardly anyone as eloquent as him in speech. I attended another time few years back and that was more interesting as he talked about some of his thoughts related to his book 12 Rules for Life. This time it was mostly a Q&A session where questions were coming from audience via sli.do.

Today I attended monthly internal engineering meetup of WeWork as a guest speaker. I was invited by long time industry peer NHM Tanveer Hossain Khan. I spoke about   Engineering Teams & Individuals  in relation to organizational health and team structure to an audience of 90+ software engineers. It was a good experience to be there virtually. Thanks to Perry Tiu, the engineering manager, who coordinated the session skillfully.

I watched the movie RRR with my friend Abul Nuruzzaman in Cinemark of Milpitas, the first Indian movie to cross 1000 crore rupees revenue in box office world wide. We watched the hindi version of this although the Telegu original production is running in Telegu, Tamil and Hindi versions simultaneously in the theatres. The 2 heroes of the movie Raama and Bheema are loosely inspired from Ramayana's Rama and Mahabharata's 2nd brother of the Pancha Pandavas, Bheema.  If you have watched the movie RRR, my question to you is - who is more favorite to you? Sitarama Raju or Komaram Bheem? You can easily imagine it's the later for me. I am particularly fascinated by Bheema's roar against the Royal Bengal Tiger! The raw emotion of fearlessness is mind blowing. I can compare 2 other scenes from the past that can resonate with this. One is the roar back of Kong in 2021 film Godzilla vs Kong. The other is the 2012 film The Avenger's where Dr Bruce Banner turned into Incredible H...

  3 years back   I joined Marqeta   from Roku as an Engineering Manager lacking any Fintech / Payments experience. At that time Marqeta was as a Series D startup with less than 250 employees valued at 450 million dollar. Today is my last day at Marqeta as I am joining Twin Health, a Health Tech startup, next week. I am grateful for the excellent journey together I have been through. We went for a few more fundraising events and   went public in June 2021 . This made it possible for me to   buy a house   in Fremont last Christmas. CEO Jason Gardner has built an excellent company through his leadership, compassion and leveraging his professional network. I was hired by Manish Pandit who was the Senior Director of Engineering, and Director of Recruiting Ali Algarmi who also hired me from Salesforce to TubeMogul in 2015. After few months, Manish left for Facebook and I started reporting to the new VP of Engineering Abhay Kumar. When Abhay left end of the year, ...

Last week I finished an excellent compilation of bit size wisdoms The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson. This book is based on Naval's famous tweetstorms on various topics of wealth, money, life, philosophy, technology, startups, angel investments, silicon valley and so on. This is book has contents from many episodes of the Apple Podcast Naval which I started listening to as soon as I finished the book.   I first heard about Naval Ravikant from my a Roku colleague a few years back and since then started following him in seminars, twitter and so on. He is the founder of angellist, epinion and investors of 200+ companies including some of the best that came out IPO. In this book the editor / author compiles his conversations around wealth and what it means to our lives. I highly recommend everyone reading it irrespective of your occupation. Here are some of the quotes from the book - The more desire I have for something to work out a...