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My mom hired a young writer to sit with my 94-year-old grandmother in India and document stories from her life. They met weekly for two years. The process brought my grandmother joy. The result will bring my family joy for years to come. I think everyone should do this: We had planned to give her the book on her 95th birthday, but sadly, life had other plans. After she passed in October 2023, we took our time finding photos to fill the pages. This week, we got to see the final product. My mom found the writer through an elderly care service in India. Her request was for someone who would record and transcribe stories from my grandmother. The writer was a recent university graduate named Raika Sengupta. The process began shortly after the pandemic lockdowns ended in India. Raika would visit with my grandmother every week. Depending on my grandmother’s energy, they would meet for an hour or less. Each time, they would pick up where they left off on her life journey. Raika would record the conversation and then transcribe the recordings. Mostly in my grandmother’s own words, with some stylistic improvements where necessary. My grandmother was an amazing storyteller, so the writing naturally flowed. The weekly meeting became a beautiful ritual. During a time when there wasn’t much to look forward to because of COVID lockdowns and a diminished social life, my grandmother looked forward to these sessions. They made her feel important again. Such a powerful thing at her age. Once the writing was complete, my mother, a beautiful writer herself, took the pen on editing and converting the stories into a book. She worked with my grandmother on the flow and filling in the gaps. They added chapters on special people in her life. We wanted to add photos to the book, so the whole family got involved. When I traveled to India in 2023, I got to sit with my mom, dad, and grandmother and go through old photos to include. We uncovered some real gems. It was beautiful. I didn't know it would be the last time I would see my grandmother in this world... But her legacy lives on in the stories and pages of this book. We had enough copies made so that all of her family could have a copy to remember her by. I really believe everyone should do this. One of the saddest things is seeing our grandparents feel they are no longer “important” to anyone. That they no longer matter. The process reminded my grandmother how much she was loved and how much she still had to offer the world. There are a variety of services (including some AI-enabled options) to make it seamless and cost-effective to capture, document, and memorialize the stories from your loved ones. I would encourage everyone to consider doing the same for your parents or grandparents. It's a beautiful thing.

WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later). There is a Middle Path to Happiness. In the 3rd century BCE, a ruler named King Pyrrhus had a memorable exchange with a trusted advisor: “Having conquered Italy, what will we do next?” his advisor asked. After Italy, then we will conquer Sicily," Pyrrhus replied. “And then what?” asked the advisor. “Then Libya and Carthage are within reach," said the king. “And then what?” Smiling, King Pyrrhus replied, “Then we will live a life of ease. Drink all day and have pleasant conversation with our friends." The advisor paused and spoke: “But what's stopping us from doing that today?” This is one of the oldest documented cases of a common psychological phenomenon: The Arrival Fallacy. It's the false assumption that reaching some achievement or goal will create durable feelings of satisfaction and contentment in our lives. We incorrectly assume that we will finally experience the sensation of having arrived when we reach whatever we have propped up as our destination. King Pyrrhus presents a chain of conquering campaigns as the means to his eventual arrival. They would conquer Italy. Then Sicily. Then Libya and Carthage. Then, and only then, could they reach the idyllic end. To live at ease, drink all day, and engage in pleasant conversation. But his advisor shatters this illusion. There was nothing stopping them from living that way today. How often do we fall victim to this same illusion in our own lives? From the earliest days of adulthood, we're indoctrinated into a belief that the blissful life we seek is on the other side of some thing. Some achievement. Some conquest. Some title. Some figure. The specific items are individual, but the logic never varies: When I get [X], then I'll be happy. Then I'll be fulfilled. Then I'll enjoy myself. Then I'll be content. When I get that promotion... When I find the perfect partner... When I make my first million... When I sell my company... We slowly accept the premise that our happiness and fulfillment are conditional on these things. That there's some magical recipe to achieve that end state and we're just missing the final ingredients to get there. That if we simply add those missing components, we'll have what we want. And let's be honest, we've all done it. Myself included. I think and write about these things for a living and still find myself falling into the trap. It's very real and very human. The goal isn't to never fall into it, but to notice it when you do. Instead of blindly accepting the logic, when you notice it at work, play the role of the advisor in your own internal dialogue: What's stopping you from doing that today? What if the ingredients of your own happiness and fulfillment are already present, waiting to be noticed and seized upon? What if they were never really missing? It's a beautiful notion. One that resonates deeply. But here's what I struggle with: Life is rarely so black and white. It's true that most of what you need is right in front of you. Sometimes the only thing stopping you from living the fulfilled life you envision is the illusion you've created that you don't deserve it yet. The advisor wasn't wrong about this. But at the same time, the answer can't just be to stop everything. To halt your ambitions. To shut off your pursuits. To be perfectly content where you are, with what you have in front of you. Sometimes conquering Carthage is...good. Your Carthage could be that financial milestone that unlocks lower levels of stress or new experiences with people you love. Your Carthage could be the growth and mastery that brings joy as you get better at the games you're choosing to play. Your Carthage could be the focused sprint that teaches your kids a critical lesson that working hard on things you care about is a key principle for life. My point here, I suppose, is that the common interpretation of the story about King Pyrrhus and his advisor, or any similar story, is flawed. The common interpretation says Pyrrhus wrong, advisor right. But I think it's more nuanced than that... Maybe they're both right, and wrong, in their own way. Ambition isn't the mortal enemy. And presence isn't the perfect hero. The two can coexist in the beautiful, imperfect dance that is your life. Sometimes skewing one way, sometimes the other, but both always there. Always close. So, this is how I've come to wrestle with it in my own life: I choose the middle path. I reject the black and white. I reject the or and embrace the and. Presence and ambition. Ambition and presence. The chase, the pursuit, the growth. And the pause, the space, the joy. Maybe the two aren't in tension. At least not really. Maybe they're just two parts of your life harmony. Different individually, seemingly at extreme odds, but coming together to create something beautiful. You can conquer your Carthage if you want to. Just don't make the wine wait for it. It's perfectly ok to go after the things you care about. To chase your grand vision for the future. To create and build. To stretch beyond your current competencies. To live your life at full power. But never let the quest for more distract you from the beauty of now. The good life isn't waiting at the finish line. At the arrival. Because it was never there anyway. It's here. Right in front of you. In this moment. So, chase your Carthage. And along the way, make sure to enjoy the wine. That's the Middle Path I'll be taking. How about you?

Underrated life advice: Keep proof that good things happen to you. Old photos. Kind messages. Positive feedback. Notes from great days. Whatever. Store them in a single place. Call it a Rainy Day Folder. Pop it open on a bad day and watch your mood turn. It's a free reset button.

There’s nothing more frustrating than realizing where you’d be today if you’d just stopped overthinking and taken action. Don’t let your future self feel that frustration. That thing you want to do? Go do it.

Simple thing that improved my life: I often choose the slower option on purpose. Walk instead of driving. Stairs instead of escalator. Cook instead of ordering. Whatever. In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is slowing down. There’s a power in that.

After 9 years. 16K+ family homes. 500M sqft inside real homes covered, we know home robots are being built in wrong order. So we built Matic the way nature grows a child. Finally, sharing our vision: 1.⁠ ⁠Why robots get stuck at the demo 2.⁠ ⁠Why labs can't ship robots 3.⁠ ⁠Why we started with eyes, not hands 4.⁠ ⁠The 99.999% rule in robotics 5.⁠ ⁠Where Matic is going next 1. Why most robots get stuck at demos Robot demos look brilliant in a room arranged around its limitations: familiar lighting, predictable furniture, nothing troublesome on the floor. A family’s home makes no such accommodations. There are cables, toys, shifting rugs and, occasionally, dog poop. Yes, humanoids will need to avoid that too. Repeating a task under familiar conditions of uncluttered floors is not the same as handling an unfamiliar home with all its chaos. 2. Why labs can't ship robots SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is how a robot maps its surroundings and locates itself within them. Ask most academics and they'll tell you it's a solved problem. But real homes are the most chaotic spaces that exist. There are glass doors that look like open doorways, mirrors, stairs, rugs, charging cables, and Legos placed all around. So ask yourself: if indoor mapping and navigation is "solved," where are the robots? Why aren't airports, hotels and grocery stores full of them? Calling it “solved” misses the question families actually care about: can I leave this thing alone and trust it? 3. Why we started with eyes, not hands Nature doesn't give birth to a fully working human. We took our cue from how nature develops humans: capabilities built on one another. Children learn to see before they learn to grab, and to grab before they learn to plan and handle the unexpected. Perception comes first. Manipulation follows. More complex responsibilities come after that. At every stage, the robot must earn the next job by doing its current one well enough. Before asking a robot to pick up a sock, we wanted it to understand where it was, where the sock was, and how to reach it. Most of the industry started at the top, with humanoids. We started at the bottom, with a robot whose job is to see and move through a home precisely with 1cm accuracy in any lighting condition. Floor cleaning gave that foundation an immediately useful job. It forced us to confront navigation, clutter, privacy and everyday reliability before reaching for more complex chores. The floor cleaner isn’t a detour from our larger ambition. It is how we’re building toward it. 4. The 99.999% rule in robotics At 90%, one in ten decisions is wrong, and a robot makes thousands in a single clean. That's the robot that bumps, gets lost, and falls down the stairs. Every extra nine is a new mountain. The failures get rarer, harder to find, and exponentially harder to fix. They barely even happen until they happen in your home. Matic's visual SLAM runs at 99.999% in 16K+ homes. We’re the ONLY unsupervised home robot at scale with pure vision-only full autonomy. If you ask us, the gap between 80% and 99.999% is where our 9 years of engineering went. We close that gap inside real homes. When Matic handles something imperfectly, it saves a short clip and keeps it on the device. It only leaves if the family chooses to share it. If they do, it gets labeled, fed back into the model, and every Matic gets smarter, including theirs. Families control what leaves their homes. We do the work of making the product better. Better robots earn trust > trust brings more homes > and more homes teach the robot more. 5. Where Matic is going next Phase one was perception and it's nearly done. Matic has covered 500 million square feet, 400K miles in thousands of real lived-in homes. Now phase two is going to be about manipulation. And our idea is to build a robot that doesn't just move through your home, but acts in it to eliminate even more chores. Each step must be useful today, not justified by something we promise tomorrow. The evolution of Matic is the revolution. The goal isn’t to put the most impressive humanoid in your living room. It’s giving your family time and energy back through robots that earn your trust, protect your privacy, and help without becoming another responsibility. More time for each other. Less work getting in the way. That’s Matic. Get yours today at maticrobots.com

The older I get, the more I realize you can get pretty damn far in life by just doing what most people avoid. Wake up early. Focus deeply. Move your body. Eat real foods. Obsess over one thing. Have difficult conversations. Slow down. Be present. It’s the recipe for a good life.

I’m convinced that your energy creates your reality. Give your energy to stress, complaints, and negative people, they will grow. Give your energy to ambitions, gratitude, and positive people, they will grow. Your energy becomes your destiny. Choose wisely.

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My entire life changed when I realized that the people I admired were just the ones who had the courage to start. The ones who didn't overthink it. Who put their ego aside. Who walked toward uncertainty. Who kept showing up. The answer is found in the action.

I’m convinced that the ability to remain unshaken by the minor inconveniences of life puts you ahead of 95% of people. Emotional control is the ultimate power. Few have it. Not every collision or slight deserves your energy. You can just let them float by.

The best way to make friends as an adult: Sign up for a new side quest. It could be a race or competition. Maybe a hiking adventure. Or some new creative hobby. Really whatever. It opens your life to an entirely new community of people. People you’d probably never have met or interacted with otherwise. Suddenly you have a shared mission. Group chats form. Daily texts start flying. Regular get togethers happen. Tons of new energy breathed into your life. I think we all need some Side Quest Friends. Sign up for that thing that scares you a little bit. Watch your whole life improve.

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Underrated life advice: Become difficult to rush. The world will pressure you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed relationships. Rushed conversations. Rushed timelines. There's power in rejecting that trend. Pause. Slow down. Create space to think clearly.

There are very few things in life as enjoyable as seeing your friends win. Especially when you’ve had a front row seat to the work that went on to get there. Real ones are with you for the dirt of the journey and the champagne at the finish.

I think the most interesting shift sparked by AI is who it rewards. For the longest time, it seemed like the world rewarded those who followed a clear, logical path. People who: 1. Anticipated valuable skills 2. Acquired those valuable skills 3. Leveraged those valuable skills I don’t think that works anymore. Because you can’t really anticipate valuable skills like you could in the past. This “new world” will reward those who are just willing to be beginners over and over again. Value now seems to accrue to those who can pair insatiable curiosity with bias for action. The valuable skills of the future aren’t really fixed skills. They’re much more akin to mindsets.

The older I get, the more I realize that showing up is the key to life. It sounds so simple, but it's surprisingly rare. Because it's easy to do when you're getting patted on the back for it. It's easy when the rewards feel certain. It's easy when the progress is clear. But most people stop when it's none of those things. Few have the courage to keep showing up through the valley. So, if you want to win, just show up. Show up when it’s hard. Show up when no one’s watching. Show up when you don't feel like it. Show up when the rewards are uncertain. Show up. Never bet against the person who just keeps showing up.

The older I get, the more I realize that life has seasons. And not every season needs to be your best one. Some seasons are for building. Some are for healing. Some are for just surviving. You don’t have to win every single chapter for the whole story to turn out well.

Powerful rule for life: Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary feeling. Bad days pass. Anger fades. Fear settles. Just learn to pause. Take a walk. Sleep on it. Give it a minute. You can always act tomorrow. You can't always undo a rushed decision made today.