Monday musings

Sophia and I spent the weekend mostly running errands and starting to prepare the apartment for the newborn. We’ve decided to stay at our current one bedroom apartment for at least a few months past birth as we figure out our next move in San Francisco or New York. It’ll save us a bit of rent and we won’t have to figure out how to get out of our lease.

We’re lucky we have a closet that is large and works well for a nursery. It’s a bit of a weird concept thinking of putting our nursery in a closet, but this appears to be fairly common and it’s as big as some rooms I’ve seen in New York.

Both my football teams are leaving a lot to be desired this season. My Washington Huskies lost to Rutgers in a game that we should have easily won. We seem to be the best 3-2 team in the country but keep shooting ourselves in the foot at the most inopportune times.

The 49ers had a good win, but don’t seem close to the form that we were in last year. With injuries piling up, these next few weeks could be a make or break season. Go on nice win streak and get some players back, and we can be talking Super Bowl. But if we start rattling off some more early season losses, it could be a tough year.

The Giants today fired our President of Operations Farhan Zaidi. I’m not that well-versed in baseball, but Farhan seemed like that very typical Silicon Valley analytics type executive. There were a lot of promising moments and many years ago, it felt that Farhan was going to be that elite executive that was just ahead of the curve by using data and analytics. But things didn’t work out and baseball is still a team sport that data cannot completely account for.

On the work front, our quarter ends today and we have a lot of reasons to celebrate. It was a challenging quarter that started off very uncertain, but we pulled together as a team and have set ourselves up for a great year. I’ve told my team that we should wrap up strong this week and clean-up some things as we finish the quarter. Then we all need to take a bit of a breather.

Q4 is always the busiest time of the year for us and the holiday schedule doesn’t make it easier. It’s important that we take some time to relax and celebrate the big quarter. Fittingly, it’s a heat wave in San Francisco so I’ll be taking some time to work outside and do independent work away from calls.