Bhardwaj Rish

I left Google. I left Google!! :O Uff, that's taking a while to sink in. I walked around campus one last time, and the place is just full of memories. I spent exactly 6 years there. In one team. I took a project from proof of concept to production. And yet, I am as happy to leave as I was when I first joined! (read about how I felt when I got into Google  here .) What a full circle of emotion :D I have great things to say about Google, it really is a company that takes care of its employees. You get 3 meals a day, a gym and shower in every major city you travel to, colleagues from all around the world that become great friends, and social recognition from everyone you know. And yet, I chose to leave. Why, you ask? Well, we all want different things in different phases of our lives. In this phase of life, here's what I am looking for: At Google, I was in a 99 -> 99.99 project. Now, I want a 1 -> 99. I want a scale up where the company has roughly defined the domain they...

The future is smart glasses The future is smart glasses. It's obvious to me. This is going to happen. We wear prescription glasses for vision correction. We wear shades when its sunny. We know what glasses feel like.  Unlike the time the phone was first introduced, glasses already exist.  Humanity is just making these glasses  smarter . And the tech underneath is so, so cool. But I don't want that future. I think of the late 19th century when pocket watches became an everyday object. "These kids, they're not free; time controls their life", the older people must have said. And yet, the ability to meet people at a specified time is useful. It was a net positive in progressing civilization. Then came the mobile phones and smart watches. We live with them. We live by them. I can find information, make notes, set alarms, talk to anyone I want. Sure there are bad things with mobiles. We're constantly distracted, we've lost the ability to navigate, we no longe...