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location:: Home - Eugene, NYC victory-hour:: no😵 pomodoro-blocks:: 8 wake-up:: 8 AM day:: Friday icon:: 📅 - **09:15 AM, day. Morning Pages ** collapsed:: true - Mantra: Your person needs to be ‘knocked out’ cold. - Block Reference - I imagine my day to be a break from routine - I think I need a break. Break from routine stuff to just gloat, ruminate and kind of sun bathe without a goal. - Yesterday was a lot of missed plans. Again hit by social outing that get me derailed - takes time, my awareness and in fact wears me down from the next day as well. Alcohol is truly poison in that sense. - I realize since I was traveling last weekend, Saie Convocation, I hadn't had time to self reflect. I get the #amorphousblob feels. Maybe I shall commit x hours on this every week. Well, isn't that the weekly review then? Hm. I have come around to the essence and need for Weekly Review. I must put 2 hours every Sunday. Maybe 6-8 PM. Then you wind down with boo, maybe a tv show, and sleep in time for Monday. - 🛏 🖥 9 - 1PM : #slowday. Just Being. 🍅🍅 - 💪 1 PM: Workout 1: Pulse HIIT 10 mins | Core Burnout - ⚡️ 🖥 1:30 - 3 PM: Algorithms Day 17 🍅🍅🍅 collapsed:: true - Algo/Monotonic Array ✅ 18 mins. - rules to check - i+1 <= i for non increasing - i+1 >= i for non decreasing - soln. 1. assume true unless proven to be false 2. at each step disqualify left over rules 3. if all rules are disqualified return false else true - #Realization As in algorithms as as it is in life, it is the creative art of breaking down the problem or defining the problem in away that it can be solved. Framing the Problem - Boom. Solved in 18 mins. It was my framing of the problem. - Algo/Spiral Traverse collapsed:: true - this problem is so cool - ouch I solved it.. but misunderstood the problem. Solved for snake instead of spiral lol. - That was 15 mins - 20 mins more thinking on spiral algo. This one if hard and fun. - I got the solution but stuck in debugging. TBC. - 📺 3 - 6: - Move to Boston - house wrap. - 4-6 PM: #afternoonnap😴 - ☕️time - #projectidea blockwise collapsed:: true - email random blocks - 🚶7 - 9 PM: #Haircut #practice/2WW💪 NYC Wrap Up collapsed:: true - #radio/wohlamhe - @Places/Prime Barber, NYC - Running 🏃 - #runamile 14m49s - @Places/Whitmans, NYC - Lucy Juicy Burger. Vanished in mouth. But yeah. Whatever - 🏠9-11 PM: Move to Boston 🍅🍅🍅 - 11 PM: Boo arrives :) - ⚡️ Every Day Kaizen ✅ collapsed:: true - Accent watch another video of Accent's Way English by with Hadar - jujutsu try another A/Tai Chi practice today collapsed:: true - Module 2. Feels transformational. Circular movement. The new ones got me flowing. - ⚡️ Daily 5 ✅ collapsed:: true - Time for algo ✅ - Haircut ✅ - last run on hudson yards ✅ - intry house ✅ - wash clothes ✅ - **1 AM Lights Off** - wow time flew after saie arrived - sleeping v late; hoping to get up in 3 hours - saie is getting adjusted at dana farber. i’m hopeful. - #inbox collapsed:: true - **10:16** quick capture: {{video https://youtube.com/watch?v=rvoZKQn2Go8&feature=share}} - Compass Layoffs collapsed:: true - The buzz seems to be out in public now about impeding layoffs. A tragic one it seems with 500 engineer and 300 product - about 80 or so % - will be under fire. I can only imagine the state of people working there right now. Well a good time to cruise and interview. - Malvika reached out. Will speak with her on Aug 22nd, 2022. - I wonder what will happen with @Bastien F and @eugene S. both have visa in progress - Post from #blindapp - I'm writing this to let some of my thoughts out, vent, and process the emotions I'm having right now. Buckle your seat belts because this is a long post. - My dear colleagues, in October Compass will be very different. We went from Tech Company, trying to reinvent real estate, to just a brick-and-mortar brokerage very fast. But, it was not all too fast; in hindsight, it almost unfolded in slow motion. We went from inventing things that would make our business more profitable, grow more quickly, etc., to losing faith that Technology can contribute anything to make money and deciding to close shop. - I joined at a time when the future was bright, when we talked about opening our software, creating "web services," and even selling our creations to other brokerage or anyone who would buy. Data would be our primary asset, and our services would allow people to do things that were impossible before. Do you remember "externalization"? Or selling "CRM"? - But slowly, we started shifting inwards to create a more efficient "brokerage," from making agents more efficient to making ourselves more efficient. Suddenly, our reality was saving money, not making money. GH started chiming in more and suggesting that we were like Amazon and needed to be efficient. We hired many people from an operations background (yes, you guessed right, from Amazon), and we started talking about profitability more than ever. This was before the market started cooling (in between and with all the new product people trying to reinvent the org we had flow, then more new Amazonians man-splaining why things were not wrong and telling us "when I was at Amazon"). - Then, the market cooled, we had the hiring freeze, the first round of "cost efficiencies" (I'm not counting the 2020 layoffs), and now the second round (and final). It is clear now that nobody believes anymore that Compass is a Tech Company or that Technology has any effect on how we make money or how it may influence our outlook on making money. We are, as GH said, a cost-center (not a profit center or an innovation center), and we are a "technology-enabled" brokerage. RR unequivocally stated that Technology would be the first to go this time, which is what we will have. That is why we have quality sprints and six weeks between the announcement and actual layoffs. We need to transfer the Technology to a lower cost center (remember, we are an expensive cost center). Going forward-- October onwards - If you stay at Compass (chances are that you won't), you will become a second-class citizen. You will be at the service of regional operations, brokerage teams, efficiencies, and brokerage processes. Software like MC, CRM, DADS, etc. will be KTLOed. The development will effectively stop, and only bug fixes and operations will continue. Everything eventually will go to India. I think there is no doubt that the CTO will leave, but it won't matter. We do not need a CTO anymore! We may not even look for a new one; we will have whoever stays reporting to a VP of product or the COO (similar to Amazon, but without the Amazon scale, Technology, or tech talent). - Please don't take me wrong. I'm not saying this is not what Compass should do; it is what Compass needs to survive (yes, I said survive, not succeed). It is just sad! I feel very sad. My colleagues, we no longer provide value here and have become a cost center. - Did we have a fighting chance of delivering value? Maybe, but I witnessed many occasions when RR shut down avenues to make money through software. On other occasions, it was the Game of Thrones between product leaders, engineering leaders, and middle managers. - Thanks for reading my words. I'm just a saddened colleague who is not so sad about being layoff but because it feels like a wasted opportunity. - Citing Pink Floyd... "The dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb". - P/Lost Passport - got response from NYPD on police complaint. - update: I had earlier misread it as that they will send it to me via physical mail, instead they have sent it via email. PDF saved.