So, 75 days after the trek, I quit my job and joined a start up. Such steps involve deep introspection, meeting some new interesting people, and one or two life changing events. As an insider, I can confidently reveal that a start up can hire you even if you don't have any of those three points on your CV. You should also know that if you let a greater number of life changing events happen to you then you risk overshooting the why-I-quit blog post and heading directly to the one where you describe your ride from one end of the Sahara to the other with just 5000 Indian Rupees, a goat, and a camera worth a few months of salary. By the way, this is not the why-I-quit blog post. This was just a rebuke.
I joined a company which is into hardware. We’re making smart electric scooters. For those who don't remember, hardware are things. They have a physical presence and therefore their existence goes beyond the hard drives of servers, computers or phones. For a guy like me, who types for a living interspersed with the occasional click or two, the new environment was refreshingly different. Over time, however, I got the feeling that somewhere deep down, software and hardware have a lot in common.
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