How I saw Santa, a White Reindeer & the Northern Lights on Christmas Day

I didn’t plan this. It kinda just unfurled as I flowed through the small decisions I was making. But three things happened to me on Christmas Day 2014 that made it absolutely magical:

Why future Legislators will need to be Data Scientists, not Lawyers

A system of governence is a form of a model that helps predict the best decisions that will optimize the results for all its stakeholders. However, the data on which our current Democratic model is trained, the…

My setup for shooting the Milky Way

I recently captured the Milky Way on a climb up Mt Lassen in California. Here’s the picture I got, in the brief time window between the Sun going down and the Moon coming up.

Happy July 4th

I grew up in India. I moved to the United States 10 years ago. It is my home now and I’m very proud of it. Yes, a lot of bad sh** goes down here. But there’s a lot of good sh** here too. And it’s overwhelmingly a net positive.

Inauguration Day Thoughts

We can respect each other as humans and still call out behaviors and actions we disagree with. When we let egos get in the way we stop listening to each other.

We can acknowledge the good we see in each other. Positive reinforcement is the only sustainable…