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Naming things is hard.

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Working through the backlog.

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After Barcelona, we visited San Sebastian.

To celebrate their birthdays last March, Hannah and Amol concocted a trip to Spain with our friends.

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This review list has been too long in the making. 2023 was an eventful year, but I'm finally catching up.

> "And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually" > > -Jimi Hendrix I started a startup, and I'm no longer part of it.

On our way back from Thailand, we made a pit stop in Taiwan.

Our friends Nikhil and Rachel got married in Thailand at the end of December, and we were lucky to be able to travel and celebrate with them.

My friends Yoav and Daniela got married in June, and we got to travel to Israel to celebrate with them.

Starting a company had been a pretty clear goal in my mind for years.

I'll try to start posting links on a semi-regular basis, and make a habit of it again.

It's been a while since my last post.

Two years ago, excited to begin a new journey, I called into an onboarding Zoom from the makeshift desk I set up in my kitchen at the start of the pandemic.

A few weeks ago, Stephen Wolfram wrote a piece on the failure modes of generalized language models, focusing on ChatGPT, and contrasting them to Wolfram\|Alpha's narrow and curated computational engine.

Since moving to California, I've been to Yosemite almost once per year.

We traveled to Oaxaca for our friend Andres' wedding.

In December, my friends Debbie and Iacov were getting married in Cartagena, so Hannah and I decided to make a trip out of it and work remotely from Bogotá a few days ahead of the wedding.

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Just days after a short trip to Mexico earlier this year my friend Nathan got engaged, and gave me a good reason to go back to the city for his wedding.

A short post from two work trips to the Midwest this fall.

Posting this in November 2022 still counts, right?

An interesting thing about living in the Mission neighborhood in San Francisco, which has a large Latin American immigrant population, is that people make a big effort to show how proud they are of their roots.

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On a whim, we decided to drive down to Southern California for the long weekend.

After a quick visit to Paris we flew to Berlin.

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A few months ago Hannah decided she wanted to go to Paris.

Earlier this year I got to travel to New York to speak at KGC'22 and present some of the knowledge graph work we've been doing at Vouch to understand the startup ecosystem.

After too long of a hiatus, I'm back posting links.

One of the curious things about shooting film is that it's warped the way I think about time and place.

Taking advantage of the flexibility of WFH, we decided to go to México for a bit.

Hannah had a "recharge day" off from work, so taking advantage of COVID's work anywhere option, we went to Santa Cruz for the weekend.

Although I've lived in California for almost 7 (!)

After a weekend in Philly, our Thanksgiving trip continued with my family in New York City.

After briefly seeing our friends Annie and Michael in Louisville for their wedding party, we planned to meet them for a bit longer in Philadelphia.

After far too long since our last camping trip, Hannah and I decided to spontaneously book one for the upcoming weekend.

As part of the post-COVID wedding marathon, we flew to Louisville and DC back to back.

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In retrospect, I should have taken a lot more film photos during our trip to Italy.

After a few days in Rome, we drove South.

As the history nerd that I am, I could explore Rome and its historical sites for years, and not get enough of it.

When planning our trip, I was somewhat disappointed that we'd only spend a day in Florence.

Many months ago, in the depths of COVID-times, our friend Maizie asked if we'd be willing to travel to Italy to celebrate her birthday if she planned everything for our friend group, assuming we could all get vaccinated by then.

I went to Chicago for work, and took a lot of abstract building shots.

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