For the past few months we've been laser focused on writing code to make our search engine faster, stronger, and more attractive. In that time, Twitter has blown up and taken the world by storm. At first I ignored it, then I laughed at it, then I made arguments for why it would fail. Now I've joined it... and I like it.
For the longest time I dismissed Twitter because I just couldn't see why I would want to spend less time coding and more time thinking about putting my thoughts into 140 characters. Now, I'm glad that I have a fun way to take mental break and take stock of how I'm spending my time. Am I having fun? Am I spending my time wisely? Do I have any interesting insights to share? These are all important questions that Twitter helps me to ask myself.
It's not all about yourself though. These days Sam, Harish and I are all working pretty independently so we don't see each other very often. Small, even trivial, twitter updates help us to feel more connected. Just in the past day, for example, I learned that Sam has taken up running (shocking because I've never seen him without his bicycle) and that Harish is learning how to make chai with ginger (exciting because he introduced me to ginger chai while we were in India).
So... twitter is cool. If you're not on twitter, you should be. And when you get on twitter you should follow us:
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