parenting

In the world of Bay Area parenting, there is a specific type of high-stakes gambling: signing your child up for swim lessons. The slots usually sell out in under five minutes. For a long time, we were too lazy to participate in that race. We didn’t rush Remy. While other kids were doing structured laps at age three, we waited. 1. The Hawaii Prototype We finally leaned into swimming when Remy was 5. [Read More]

Despite of all the pandemic going around, this past year has been going very well for me at work. On the team front, I have: started my own team run a daily standup meeting and scrum process new hire onboarded very well and already became go-to person across teams built a reputation of an effective/efficient team team seems happy and productive influenced beyond my team and attracted talents to contribute to my team On the technical front, I have [Read More]

It’s been a difficult few months. Covid has hit the US hard, and things are getting worse and we keep hearing “it’s going to get worse before it gets better”, and that “better” part still hasn’t happened yet. Since the last time I posted, so much have changed in our lives, and it’s now in a weird state where we feel stable and content, but am also just living one day/week at a time. [Read More]

Disclaimer: I’m not a baby whisperer - I’m actually far from it. I’m more of a hacker, as is the title of this blog. So please don’t use this article as your sleep training bible! I initially started writing this post in January and never finished it. Thank you Alexis for nudging me for this one! Newborns cry… wanting something. Sometimes they know what they want, but most of the time they don’t know what they want, and neither do we know what they want. [Read More]