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Jan 20, 2017

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…

Sameer Halai

Dec 26, 2016

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:

Sameer Halai

Aug 1, 2016

Moving on from SunFunder

I want to share with everyone that I recently decided to move on from SunFunder. I will miss the people I worked with but I am also very excited about what lies ahead for me and for SunFunder and I look forward to seeing its super talented team continue to kick ass.

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.

Sameer Halai

Jun 25, 2016

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…

Sameer Halai

Jun 4, 2016

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.