On January 3 US forces assassinated Gen. Qasem Soleimani in an unprecedented and illegal act of aggression initiated by Trump without Congressional approval and without notifying the UN Security Council outside wartime. On January 7 I entered Iran on 2week vacation to visit family, despite my partner’s pleas for me…

Between 2010 and 2019 I interviewed dozens of Software Engineer candidates at Google. Almost always I asked the same interview question. Moreover, this question happened to be on the banned list at Google, because it was publicly available on Glassdoor and other interview websites, but I continued to use it…

[For my 38th birthday today, I’m sharing two stories; the other one: “Flight PS752 Memorial Project”.] [Tweet] On June 21, 2020, prodded by a tweet and determined by the institutional harassment that followed (which led to me quitting my job), I realized that I cannot afford to throw away my…

[For my 38th birthday today, I’m sharing two stories; the other one: “The Story So Far and Road Ahead”.] [Tweet] TL;DR version For my birthday today I donated 100k CAD to the the Flight PS752 Memorial project (deck). I’m inviting you all to match my donation to the extent you…

June 19–21, 2020 I find the Alphabettes article deeply offensive on so many levels. Just a month ago I would have applauded the article. But the events of recent weeks accelerated a shift in my thinking that has been brewing for a long time that I did not even fully…