Meeting Title: Zoom-Meeting Date: 2024-08-19 Meeting participants: Patrick Trainer, Ryan Luke Daque, Abigail Zhao, Nicolas Sucari, Atharv Gudi, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:00:08.820 ⇒ 00:00:09.850 Ryan Luke Daque: Hello! Hello!
2 00:00:10.070 ⇒ 00:00:11.000 Ryan Luke Daque: And
3 00:00:11.380 ⇒ 00:00:12.380 Ryan Luke Daque: Hey, guys!
4 00:00:12.980 ⇒ 00:00:13.890 Ryan Luke Daque: Hello, Dom!
5 00:00:14.320 ⇒ 00:00:15.040 Uttam Kumaran: Hey!
6 00:00:16.810 ⇒ 00:00:21.100 Ryan Luke Daque: I finally bought a new camera because the other one was
7 00:00:21.110 ⇒ 00:00:23.239 Ryan Luke Daque: dead. I don’t know what happened to it.
8 00:00:25.610 ⇒ 00:00:26.580 Nicolas Sucari: Hi guys.
9 00:00:27.540 ⇒ 00:00:28.150 Uttam Kumaran: Scheme of you.
10 00:00:28.150 ⇒ 00:00:29.990 Patrick Trainer: And turn it on your your thing.
11 00:00:30.440 ⇒ 00:00:32.360 Ryan Luke Daque: No, it it died, I don’t know.
12 00:00:32.659 ⇒ 00:00:37.600 Ryan Luke Daque: Wasn’t working like the the computer can’t recognize it for some reason
13 00:00:37.830 ⇒ 00:00:38.800 Ryan Luke Daque: one more.
14 00:00:43.390 ⇒ 00:00:44.679 Ryan Luke Daque: How’s everyone.
15 00:00:45.540 ⇒ 00:00:46.480 Patrick Trainer: Doing all right.
16 00:00:46.580 ⇒ 00:00:47.519 Patrick Trainer: You feeling better.
17 00:00:47.520 ⇒ 00:00:48.400 Nicolas Sucari: Oh, good.
18 00:00:48.820 ⇒ 00:00:49.540 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah. A lot.
19 00:00:49.540 ⇒ 00:00:53.060 Ryan Luke Daque: Better, but still can’t hear through my right ear like.
20 00:00:53.060 ⇒ 00:00:53.629 Patrick Trainer: Oh, man!
21 00:00:54.820 ⇒ 00:01:02.160 Ryan Luke Daque: And I got like some virus, I guess colds or something. I hope it’s not Covid, but I didn’t get any
22 00:01:02.430 ⇒ 00:01:04.500 Ryan Luke Daque: fever, so I guess it’s not.
23 00:01:04.989 ⇒ 00:01:05.569 Patrick Trainer: Yeah.
24 00:01:05.929 ⇒ 00:01:09.249 Patrick Trainer: I’m still not able to smell or taste.
25 00:01:09.250 ⇒ 00:01:10.600 Ryan Luke Daque: That sucks.
26 00:01:12.190 ⇒ 00:01:18.196 Patrick Trainer: Yeah, it’s like, so well, so it’s it’s kind of funny, like, well, it’s not so funny. But
27 00:01:19.140 ⇒ 00:01:22.549 Patrick Trainer: like a year or no. Yeah, 2 years ago. Now.
28 00:01:22.720 ⇒ 00:01:32.000 Patrick Trainer: I like, had nasal surgery like I had a like a hundred percent like block like deviated septum. And all this from like
29 00:01:32.220 ⇒ 00:01:36.929 Patrick Trainer: I had apparently broken my nose like 5 or 6 times growing up and
30 00:01:37.490 ⇒ 00:01:41.240 Patrick Trainer: and but so I couldn’t like smell or
31 00:01:41.570 ⇒ 00:01:44.210 Patrick Trainer: like breathe out of my nose, basically.
32 00:01:44.560 ⇒ 00:01:46.469 Patrick Trainer: And I had that all fixed.
33 00:01:46.610 ⇒ 00:01:48.610 Patrick Trainer: And so like I
34 00:01:48.730 ⇒ 00:01:51.670 Patrick Trainer: was able to like am now able to breathe
35 00:01:51.680 ⇒ 00:01:52.840 Patrick Trainer: and
36 00:01:52.930 ⇒ 00:02:00.630 Patrick Trainer: do that. But then what I also realized was how much I like, couldn’t smell or taste beforehand.
37 00:02:00.730 ⇒ 00:02:04.610 Patrick Trainer: And so like, after I had that surgery, I was like
38 00:02:04.760 ⇒ 00:02:11.618 Patrick Trainer: tasting food for the 1st time, which was like really awesome like it. It’s I always used to.
39 00:02:12.593 ⇒ 00:02:26.802 Patrick Trainer: like I go to like a thai place. I’d order like the spiciest of spicy food, or like Indian like my Indian friends, were always really impressed with how spicy of food that I could eat. And
40 00:02:27.570 ⇒ 00:02:29.439 Patrick Trainer: But then, after the surgery.
41 00:02:29.900 ⇒ 00:02:37.570 Patrick Trainer: I couldn’t handle spicy food like at all, and so, like I’d go back to the same restaurants and like I I’d order like
42 00:02:38.060 ⇒ 00:02:40.959 Patrick Trainer: like like just like mild, and
43 00:02:41.100 ⇒ 00:02:42.790 Patrick Trainer: the like.
44 00:02:42.970 ⇒ 00:02:50.230 Patrick Trainer: The the Vietnamese place that I go to. They’re like they speak in Vietnamese, and I know that they’re like making fun of me.
45 00:02:51.910 ⇒ 00:02:59.270 Patrick Trainer: and it. It’s so. But I got Covid, and then I’m back into not being able to
46 00:02:59.600 ⇒ 00:03:01.749 Patrick Trainer: smell or taste anything.
47 00:03:02.230 ⇒ 00:03:03.960 Ryan Luke Daque: Yeah, that sucks.
48 00:03:04.070 ⇒ 00:03:04.760 Ryan Luke Daque: So.
49 00:03:07.430 ⇒ 00:03:13.739 Ryan Luke Daque: But yeah, I didn’t realize, like, smell has a correlation to like how spicy you can
50 00:03:14.200 ⇒ 00:03:16.902 Ryan Luke Daque: like, how much spice you can tolerate basically.
51 00:03:17.240 ⇒ 00:03:19.049 Patrick Trainer: All like olfactory stuff.
52 00:03:19.900 ⇒ 00:03:20.690 Ryan Luke Daque: Nice.
53 00:03:21.420 ⇒ 00:03:22.080 Patrick Trainer: Yeah.
54 00:03:24.355 ⇒ 00:03:33.829 Uttam Kumaran: I wanted to. I wanted to introduce. I just Abigail. You just met Patrick and a thar, but wanted to introduce you to Ryan and Nico. Maybe you could give
55 00:03:34.000 ⇒ 00:03:35.470 Uttam Kumaran: a little
56 00:03:35.700 ⇒ 00:03:37.769 Uttam Kumaran: feel about yourself.
57 00:03:38.229 ⇒ 00:03:43.160 Uttam Kumaran: But also, but also make it more about your life than work like what you like to do, and
58 00:03:43.590 ⇒ 00:03:44.859 Uttam Kumaran: how fun you are.
59 00:03:45.680 ⇒ 00:03:46.560 Abigail Zhao: Okay,
60 00:03:48.320 ⇒ 00:03:53.379 Uttam Kumaran: Otherwise. It’s like boring. People are like, I love data. I’ve been doing data for, you know, I don’t know.
61 00:03:53.590 ⇒ 00:03:54.180 Uttam Kumaran: It’s like.
62 00:03:56.035 ⇒ 00:04:04.124 Abigail Zhao: Yeah, I mean, I’m Abigail. I’m a junior at Usc studying applied math minoring in computer programming.
63 00:04:04.660 ⇒ 00:04:13.130 Abigail Zhao: I am originally from New York, but recently moved here to California. So right now, I’m calling from Chino Hills. If you guys know where that is.
64 00:04:13.741 ⇒ 00:04:18.928 Abigail Zhao: Yeah, I mean, I don’t know like hobbies. Wise, I guess.
65 00:04:19.630 ⇒ 00:04:21.079 Abigail Zhao: I
66 00:04:21.500 ⇒ 00:04:43.070 Abigail Zhao: like, I’m a huge like movie TV show person. I love playing tennis. I crochet. I used to do a lot of like grandmother hobbies. But now I don’t have like as much time for that. Yeah, I mean, I don’t. I won’t go into like my whole life story. But yeah, I mean, if you wanna
67 00:04:43.360 ⇒ 00:04:45.830 Abigail Zhao: talk or anything like I’m always done to chat, I promise.
68 00:04:45.830 ⇒ 00:04:46.650 Uttam Kumaran: Like.
69 00:04:47.244 ⇒ 00:04:50.639 Uttam Kumaran: what shows or movies have you liked recently.
70 00:04:51.130 ⇒ 00:04:52.858 Abigail Zhao: Oh, my God! Oh.
71 00:04:53.640 ⇒ 00:04:57.121 Abigail Zhao: I feel like I could go like so in depth into it right now.
72 00:04:57.510 ⇒ 00:05:02.609 Abigail Zhao: There’s a show on Netflix, called the Umbrella Academy, that just like finished
73 00:05:02.980 ⇒ 00:05:15.319 Abigail Zhao: that last season. I did not like it. I don’t know if any of you guys watch it, but I did not like that last season, and it just ended. But before that I was really into it. Movies, wise.
74 00:05:15.590 ⇒ 00:05:36.900 Abigail Zhao: The movie, I always tell everyone is my favorite is the Isle of Dogs, which is a Wes Anderson movie. But it’s also like I am just a big like animal person. When I was younger, like my dream. Job was to be a veterinarian, but then I found out I was really bad at Bio, and like science, so that those dreams were kind of crushed for me. But yeah.
75 00:05:36.900 ⇒ 00:05:39.650 Uttam Kumaran: Volunteer at like a dog shelter, or something.
76 00:05:40.620 ⇒ 00:05:41.460 Abigail Zhao: Sorry.
77 00:05:41.620 ⇒ 00:05:43.600 Uttam Kumaran: He’s a volunteer at like a dog shelter.
78 00:05:43.600 ⇒ 00:05:45.927 Abigail Zhao: Yeah, yeah, I could definitely do that.
79 00:05:46.600 ⇒ 00:05:47.770 Abigail Zhao: I mean.
80 00:05:47.770 ⇒ 00:05:53.190 Patrick Trainer: I like. How in Isle of Dogs? They’re really like how they sneeze
81 00:05:53.320 ⇒ 00:05:55.649 Patrick Trainer: like every every often
82 00:05:55.840 ⇒ 00:06:06.319 Patrick Trainer: it’s I thought. It’s like such a small detail, but just that, like the dogs, would sneeze like every 15 min, or something like that, was like such a like good touch.
83 00:06:07.870 ⇒ 00:06:19.530 Abigail Zhao: I think a lot of people also like find the stop motion of it like really like scary to watch. But I don’t know. I feel like that movie has always just held like such a special place in my heart.
84 00:06:19.670 ⇒ 00:06:20.690 Abigail Zhao: Yeah.
85 00:06:20.690 ⇒ 00:06:21.450 Patrick Trainer: It’s a good one.
86 00:06:24.520 ⇒ 00:06:30.000 Uttam Kumaran: I watched I watched presumed innocent on Apple TV recently. That was really good.
87 00:06:30.330 ⇒ 00:06:33.060 Uttam Kumaran: Anyone hasn’t seen that. It’s kind of serious, but
88 00:06:33.330 ⇒ 00:06:39.079 Uttam Kumaran: it’s with Jake Gyllenhaal. And then I watched dark matter also on Apple TV that was really, really good.
89 00:06:40.070 ⇒ 00:06:40.930 Uttam Kumaran: It’s like.
90 00:06:40.930 ⇒ 00:06:42.060 Nicolas Sucari: Just finished.
91 00:06:42.320 ⇒ 00:06:42.880 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
92 00:06:42.880 ⇒ 00:06:45.770 Nicolas Sucari: I just finished the the bear. I don’t know if you’ve seen it.
93 00:06:45.770 ⇒ 00:06:48.739 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, that’s nice, too. Yeah, the bear’s so good.
94 00:06:49.530 ⇒ 00:06:51.430 Uttam Kumaran: What did you think of may season.
95 00:06:53.753 ⇒ 00:07:03.159 Nicolas Sucari: I don’t know and let’s i i think it will be great. But yeah, for now I mean here there are 3 3 seasons, only I don’t know if.
96 00:07:03.160 ⇒ 00:07:06.050 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know. What did you? What did you think about? Did you watch the 3rd season?
97 00:07:06.620 ⇒ 00:07:09.738 Nicolas Sucari: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don’t like the ending. Oh,
98 00:07:11.030 ⇒ 00:07:14.040 Nicolas Sucari: kind of it’s kind of open. But yeah.
99 00:07:14.040 ⇒ 00:07:16.849 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, they didn’t do anything like, I feel like the last.
100 00:07:16.850 ⇒ 00:07:17.260 Nicolas Sucari: Legally.
101 00:07:17.260 ⇒ 00:07:18.870 Uttam Kumaran: Didn’t do anything. Yeah.
102 00:07:19.020 ⇒ 00:07:29.820 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, but artistically, like the the every chapter is, I think it’s great. Yeah, like, how it’s filmed, how the details on the food and what’s going on. And the relationship with people. Yeah, I think it’s
103 00:07:29.830 ⇒ 00:07:34.519 Nicolas Sucari: it’s really good. Yeah. But story wise. I don’t like the last season.
104 00:07:36.660 ⇒ 00:07:38.320 Nicolas Sucari: But yeah, it’s really interesting.
105 00:07:39.280 ⇒ 00:07:41.120 Nicolas Sucari: I’m nice to meet you, Abigail.
106 00:07:41.620 ⇒ 00:07:43.602 Abigail Zhao: Yeah, it’s nice to meet you guys, too.
107 00:07:45.140 ⇒ 00:07:48.679 Atharv Gudi: Like Abigail should have been there for my 5 slides.
108 00:07:48.680 ⇒ 00:07:52.169 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I know. But we should have a 5 slide. But
109 00:07:52.280 ⇒ 00:07:54.640 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, you guys have a lot in common.
110 00:07:55.880 ⇒ 00:07:56.580 Abigail Zhao: Oh.
111 00:07:56.750 ⇒ 00:07:57.355 Abigail Zhao: cool!
112 00:07:58.170 ⇒ 00:08:01.410 Abigail Zhao: I don’t know what these 5 slides entail, but.
113 00:08:01.850 ⇒ 00:08:04.390 Atharv Gudi: Yeah, no. My 5 slides were like.
114 00:08:04.490 ⇒ 00:08:08.870 Atharv Gudi: I grew up here in India. I lived in Germany for a while.
115 00:08:09.270 ⇒ 00:08:11.349 Atharv Gudi: I had a weed company.
116 00:08:11.990 ⇒ 00:08:16.199 Atharv Gudi: Yeah, I don’t. I don’t remember the rest of my 5 slides anymore.
117 00:08:16.200 ⇒ 00:08:20.359 Patrick Trainer: But you you were tea in Tea Club.
118 00:08:20.590 ⇒ 00:08:26.910 Atharv Gudi: Yes, and we’re on for a big launch this weekend. We have a big
119 00:08:27.120 ⇒ 00:08:35.040 Atharv Gudi: clubs ceremony thing, and this year we’ve got a couple of $100 more than last year. So we are going big.
120 00:08:35.220 ⇒ 00:08:37.720 Uttam Kumaran: What does that mean? What’s what is going big, mean?
121 00:08:38.690 ⇒ 00:08:48.059 Atharv Gudi: Well, lastly, we just had like 2 posters at a table, and this time we’re having a trifold. We’re giving out free tea. We’re trying to get.
122 00:08:48.060 ⇒ 00:08:51.489 Uttam Kumaran: I’m having. I’m having jasmine tea today instead of coffee.
123 00:08:51.540 ⇒ 00:08:53.050 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, that’s so. Yeah.
124 00:08:53.050 ⇒ 00:08:56.890 Atharv Gudi: Oh, yeah, Jasmine, you know what I love Jasmine. I had.
125 00:08:56.890 ⇒ 00:08:57.770 Uttam Kumaran: That’s okay.
126 00:08:57.770 ⇒ 00:09:01.029 Atharv Gudi: I. It’s such. I love Jasmine.
127 00:09:02.130 ⇒ 00:09:06.980 Atharv Gudi: I feel like it needs to be properly made, though it’s really hard to make
128 00:09:07.070 ⇒ 00:09:09.969 Atharv Gudi: great jasmine in general Jasmine is a good.
129 00:09:09.970 ⇒ 00:09:12.459 Uttam Kumaran: I feel like people probably burn it, you know. They put 2.
130 00:09:12.460 ⇒ 00:09:13.310 Atharv Gudi: Yeah.
131 00:09:13.590 ⇒ 00:09:15.309 Atharv Gudi: Burnett, and then
132 00:09:16.030 ⇒ 00:09:16.950 Atharv Gudi: the
133 00:09:17.110 ⇒ 00:09:19.799 Atharv Gudi: the container in which you drink. It matters.
134 00:09:19.970 ⇒ 00:09:26.639 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, really, I just have the bag, but it’s really good, but I’m sure it could be. It could be better. It’s just so delicate.
135 00:09:26.710 ⇒ 00:09:35.679 Uttam Kumaran: and I’m like the Co. If I drink coffee, I’m so productive for like 2 h, but then I get I’d start to like freak out like it’s not great.
136 00:09:35.750 ⇒ 00:09:39.553 Uttam Kumaran: So like today, I probably won’t. Maybe later this week. Once, like
137 00:09:39.990 ⇒ 00:09:46.324 Uttam Kumaran: once, like shit hits the fan as usual. I’ll like, take drink some coffee, but I’m trying to do more tea or or
138 00:09:46.740 ⇒ 00:09:51.940 Uttam Kumaran: Nico brought brought me some mate. So this week’s gonna be mate.
139 00:09:51.950 ⇒ 00:09:55.349 Uttam Kumaran: But I have an espresso machine. So it’s like emergency. I just like
140 00:09:55.360 ⇒ 00:10:11.410 Uttam Kumaran: double espresso, and I get everything we need to done. But then I but then you’ll see me. I’ll start talking in 10 slack channels like 10 slack 10 emails. I’ll be like Nico for Friday. Remember this next week. Remember this like, I gotta go crazy.
141 00:10:11.570 ⇒ 00:10:14.303 Uttam Kumaran: And it’s not sustainable. So.
142 00:10:16.010 ⇒ 00:10:17.969 Nicolas Sucari: So need, I will just press a shot. Yeah.
143 00:10:18.250 ⇒ 00:10:18.710 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
144 00:10:18.710 ⇒ 00:10:22.380 Atharv Gudi: Has its time, though coffee has a time and a place.
145 00:10:23.350 ⇒ 00:10:31.379 Uttam Kumaran: I just. I’m drinking very strong. I mean, the coffee is very good. I buy from a lot of local Austin coffee folks, and they make, and they source great coffee
146 00:10:31.420 ⇒ 00:10:35.660 Uttam Kumaran: and I grind it. I have it so good. But then
147 00:10:35.850 ⇒ 00:10:41.650 Uttam Kumaran: I just it just really like, I just go into spot, and I don’t eat. I just work for like 8 h straight.
148 00:10:41.830 ⇒ 00:10:46.019 Uttam Kumaran: like my life gets kind of ruined. So I need to go in and out of it like.
149 00:10:46.230 ⇒ 00:10:50.909 Patrick Trainer: I can drink coffee like right before I go to bed. I’m still good.
150 00:10:50.910 ⇒ 00:10:51.570 Uttam Kumaran: It’s like.
151 00:10:51.570 ⇒ 00:10:54.610 Patrick Trainer: Apparently like I’m at that point.
152 00:10:56.100 ⇒ 00:10:59.570 Atharv Gudi: Me, too. I feel like it’s not that I feel like
153 00:11:00.690 ⇒ 00:11:04.670 Atharv Gudi: I don’t know. I guess, when you you’re used to it, you’re used to it, but also
154 00:11:05.320 ⇒ 00:11:06.370 Atharv Gudi: in like, yeah.
155 00:11:06.370 ⇒ 00:11:08.140 Patrick Trainer: College like I would
156 00:11:08.280 ⇒ 00:11:22.119 Patrick Trainer: like get a cup of coffee like I didn’t drink much coffee in college, and then I would. I started like my senior year, and like I would start like sweating and like be real jittery. And then, like, I got my 1st job out of college like
157 00:11:22.140 ⇒ 00:11:29.310 Patrick Trainer: at a startup, and of course, there it’s like we had, like a barista person in the office, and it was like
158 00:11:29.530 ⇒ 00:11:35.529 Patrick Trainer: getting up to like 3, 4 cups a day. And like, now, I’m just yeah
159 00:11:37.670 ⇒ 00:11:38.920 Patrick Trainer: cheers.
160 00:11:38.920 ⇒ 00:11:52.929 Nicolas Sucari: I I don’t drink too many. Yeah, I I don’t like coffee. I like drinking tea, too, every day, and just coffee at some point during the week. But yeah, I I can’t sleep if I drink coffee. I’m not used to that one. Yeah.
161 00:11:53.750 ⇒ 00:12:04.489 Nicolas Sucari: I have an espresso machine, too, at home. And yeah, I mean, it’s really the coffee is really great. I have coffee from. I’m I live in Argentina, in Buenos Aires, Abigail, for you to know.
162 00:12:04.500 ⇒ 00:12:12.529 Nicolas Sucari: So I I we get here coffee from Brazil, from Colombia, and it’s great. I mean coffee beans really, really good.
163 00:12:16.190 ⇒ 00:12:19.900 Patrick Trainer: Batar, if we still need to get you some Southern sweet tea.
164 00:12:19.900 ⇒ 00:12:26.969 Atharv Gudi: I do need some of the Southern sweet. Yeah, we were thinking. So we were thinking of filling up a cooler and serving that out. But then.
165 00:12:26.970 ⇒ 00:12:27.610 Uttam Kumaran: Good.
166 00:12:27.920 ⇒ 00:12:31.810 Atharv Gudi: There were health issues. So the university is not going to allow that.
167 00:12:31.810 ⇒ 00:12:37.650 Patrick Trainer: If, yeah, for a cooler, the amount of sugar that you would need to to.
168 00:12:38.240 ⇒ 00:12:39.979 Uttam Kumaran: Cooler. It’s half the cooler.
169 00:12:39.980 ⇒ 00:12:41.099 Patrick Trainer: Yeah, yeah.
170 00:12:41.290 ⇒ 00:12:45.990 Atharv Gudi: I mean, we have the money this year. So we’re gonna go all out anyway.
171 00:12:49.270 ⇒ 00:12:50.139 Patrick Trainer: Respect, that.
172 00:12:53.557 ⇒ 00:12:57.760 Uttam Kumaran: Cool, I guess, Ryan, if you want to give, if you want to give like 2 cents.
173 00:12:58.420 ⇒ 00:13:05.409 Ryan Luke Daque: Yeah, well, I also drink coffee a lot like it also doesn’t affect me anymore. Especially like.
174 00:13:06.000 ⇒ 00:13:10.319 Ryan Luke Daque: yeah, I, I live in the Philippines. Just so, you know, Abigail. So I’m like a
175 00:13:10.650 ⇒ 00:13:21.870 Ryan Luke Daque: 1212 h difference, or like 12 to 15 h difference from from you guys. So it’s like, what is it now? It’s like 1230 am here, and I’m still wide awake. So
176 00:13:21.900 ⇒ 00:13:23.700 Ryan Luke Daque: like, I’m asleep.
177 00:13:24.760 ⇒ 00:13:27.849 Ryan Luke Daque: Yeah. But I’m so used to coffee, and it doesn’t like
178 00:13:27.950 ⇒ 00:13:32.579 Ryan Luke Daque: work on me anymore, but also at the same time, if I don’t drink coffee, it
179 00:13:33.190 ⇒ 00:13:33.850 Ryan Luke Daque: like
180 00:13:34.150 ⇒ 00:13:38.331 Ryan Luke Daque: I like. My my day doesn’t feel complete like I I feel
181 00:13:38.920 ⇒ 00:13:44.439 Ryan Luke Daque: like I have a lack of energy or something. I don’t know why. Yeah, it’s probably that.
182 00:13:44.470 ⇒ 00:13:47.809 Ryan Luke Daque: So yeah, I’ve tried tea as well, but there’s not a lot of
183 00:13:47.930 ⇒ 00:13:52.960 Ryan Luke Daque: good tea here in the Philippines. It’s not common or something. It’s not.
184 00:13:53.170 ⇒ 00:14:01.954 Ryan Luke Daque: So. Coffee is more common here, like there’s a lot of like coffee shops everywhere, like even local coffee beans, Philippine coffee. It’s also kind of cool.
185 00:14:02.400 ⇒ 00:14:03.420 Ryan Luke Daque: But yeah,
186 00:14:04.240 ⇒ 00:14:04.910 Ryan Luke Daque: yeah.
187 00:14:06.060 ⇒ 00:14:11.230 Ryan Luke Daque: that’s basically it. I also just watched the umbrella Academy like
188 00:14:11.960 ⇒ 00:14:18.260 Ryan Luke Daque: this weekend, but I just started the last season. So 2 episodes in. So
189 00:14:18.340 ⇒ 00:14:22.839 Ryan Luke Daque: I might continue that next. This weekend binge watch the whole season.
190 00:14:23.080 ⇒ 00:14:24.590 Ryan Luke Daque: But yeah.
191 00:14:25.780 ⇒ 00:14:26.250 Uttam Kumaran: Nice.
192 00:14:26.250 ⇒ 00:14:28.979 Abigail Zhao: Yeah, big, like, Binge watcher type of person.
193 00:14:29.660 ⇒ 00:14:31.870 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, I started the industry this weekend.
194 00:14:32.250 ⇒ 00:14:37.743 Uttam Kumaran: It’s about it’s about banking. It’s like a banking drama show. I really like
195 00:14:38.250 ⇒ 00:14:39.810 Uttam Kumaran: business drama.
196 00:14:39.830 ⇒ 00:14:43.259 Uttam Kumaran: not in my personal life, but as a part of show.
197 00:14:44.100 ⇒ 00:14:47.250 Uttam Kumaran: And then I also like organized crime.
198 00:14:47.460 ⇒ 00:14:50.351 Uttam Kumaran: like the wire sopranos, narcos.
199 00:14:51.600 ⇒ 00:14:52.870 Uttam Kumaran: and breaking down like this.
200 00:14:52.870 ⇒ 00:14:55.359 Patrick Trainer: This is Drummond, the personal life, organized crime.
201 00:14:55.640 ⇒ 00:14:58.200 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t like organized crime in my personal life.
202 00:14:58.690 ⇒ 00:15:07.986 Uttam Kumaran: although I think I think like, if I was born again, it could have been interesting to go into like data for cartels. I’ve actually been listening. I listened to 2 podcasts about how
203 00:15:08.540 ⇒ 00:15:20.850 Uttam Kumaran: cartels and stuff, they actually have their own phones like, there’s a company that develops phones for Black Market, where it’s like totally off the grid all these fake apps and stuff. And
204 00:15:20.870 ⇒ 00:15:24.540 Uttam Kumaran: it’s like primarily use like Black market. And it’s really interesting, like.
205 00:15:24.990 ⇒ 00:15:25.569 Uttam Kumaran: it sounds.
206 00:15:25.570 ⇒ 00:15:28.640 Patrick Trainer: Like a new niche we need to target is.
207 00:15:29.000 ⇒ 00:15:29.480 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
208 00:15:29.480 ⇒ 00:15:30.599 Patrick Trainer: Cartel, cartel.
209 00:15:30.600 ⇒ 00:15:32.152 Ryan Luke Daque: Totally industry needs.
210 00:15:32.800 ⇒ 00:15:34.240 Nicolas Sucari: Cartels that are here.
211 00:15:34.240 ⇒ 00:15:40.730 Uttam Kumaran: We can bare. We’re barely doing the normal one. Yeah.
212 00:15:40.920 ⇒ 00:15:46.109 Atharv Gudi: The Italian mafia I feel like would be a great customer base for us.
213 00:15:47.150 ⇒ 00:15:48.300 Atharv Gudi: I feel like I figured.
214 00:15:48.300 ⇒ 00:15:55.479 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe rough stakeholders like it’d be. But like I saw a tweet, someone’s like, I wonder if they’re using Jira or like, are they keeping?
215 00:15:57.160 ⇒ 00:15:58.970 Uttam Kumaran: How do they do? Product management.
216 00:16:02.150 ⇒ 00:16:03.920 Patrick Trainer: Yeah. I wonder if they do stand up.
217 00:16:04.560 ⇒ 00:16:05.200 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
218 00:16:10.520 ⇒ 00:16:19.380 Atharv Gudi: Yeah, on a completely different note. I, Abigail, I don’t know how much how you get so good time to watch anything as a math, Major, cause I just
219 00:16:20.420 ⇒ 00:16:26.279 Atharv Gudi: I lose my mind every single time I have a math, heavy semester.
220 00:16:27.290 ⇒ 00:16:45.930 Abigail Zhao: To be honest, I am like a big multitasker. I feel like sometimes I’ll just put something on in the background like while I do work, and like a lot of my friends like, Think it’s crazy that I can like still focus with like stuff playing in the background. But like it. I don’t know. I feel like it makes me feel more engaged in what I’m doing.
221 00:16:46.170 ⇒ 00:16:47.450 Abigail Zhao: If that makes sense.
222 00:16:48.300 ⇒ 00:16:53.190 Uttam Kumaran: I’m the same way like when I but I grew up like that. I grew up watching Youtube and working.
223 00:16:54.040 ⇒ 00:16:59.259 Uttam Kumaran: My whole, like education. So now I’m like cursed like I have to have.
224 00:16:59.510 ⇒ 00:17:11.740 Uttam Kumaran: Well, I usually listen to podcasts and work that’s, like base level. And then if it’s work that’s very boring, like like business here, email, like stuff like, then I can watch like Youtube.
225 00:17:11.829 ⇒ 00:17:18.510 Uttam Kumaran: And then but then if it’s some serious stuff I usually do music, and then it’s like ultra serious stuff. I don’t have anything.
226 00:17:18.690 ⇒ 00:17:20.660 Uttam Kumaran: but I would say it’s like
227 00:17:20.980 ⇒ 00:17:29.759 Uttam Kumaran: most of the time. It’s like something at least music, at most, like Youtube. I stop watching shows, though, I’m working because that’s like
228 00:17:29.960 ⇒ 00:17:42.129 Uttam Kumaran: that’s like, when I was studying for class. I’m like, I don’t care about this class. I I care about this class. So I like, I don’t wanna like watch movies anymore. It’s like, really, Od, but yeah.
229 00:17:42.530 ⇒ 00:17:43.300 Uttam Kumaran: yeah.
230 00:17:43.300 ⇒ 00:17:54.189 Abigail Zhao: It’s typically like things I’ve already watched, too, like not like new things that I need to absorb, but like things I’ve already maybe have seen. So it’s like, I don’t need to pay as much attention to it.
231 00:17:54.590 ⇒ 00:17:55.930 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, makes sense.
232 00:17:55.930 ⇒ 00:17:56.410 Abigail Zhao: Forgot.
233 00:17:56.410 ⇒ 00:18:07.710 Atharv Gudi: I think I wanna try that, because every single time, because what for some of my math homework, if I don’t like it, it is not gonna get done, no matter what is happening. Real analysis was
234 00:18:07.740 ⇒ 00:18:12.179 Atharv Gudi: insane. I just did not do it like it just did not happen.
235 00:18:12.890 ⇒ 00:18:14.340 Atharv Gudi: I passed Lord
236 00:18:17.120 ⇒ 00:18:17.640 Atharv Gudi: Nope.
237 00:18:17.640 ⇒ 00:18:22.220 Uttam Kumaran: Your own group. And now I’ll go to coffee shop like today. I have to do a bunch of like
238 00:18:22.510 ⇒ 00:18:23.660 Uttam Kumaran: writing
239 00:18:24.070 ⇒ 00:18:26.599 Uttam Kumaran: and like documentation. So
240 00:18:26.860 ⇒ 00:18:31.569 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll just eat lunch and go to a coffee shop, and like just chill there for a bit. So
241 00:18:35.754 ⇒ 00:18:44.130 Uttam Kumaran: I guess for this week mainly I just reached me atar Pat and Abigail kind of like did a little session on
242 00:18:44.936 ⇒ 00:18:46.190 Uttam Kumaran: sales stuff.
243 00:18:46.580 ⇒ 00:18:59.900 Uttam Kumaran: And we have, we’re gonna do another one tomorrow. So really, our focus is going to be on like sales. Automation. I know, Ryan, you’re working on some stuff for pool parts. Nico. Is handling some stuff for both clients right now.
244 00:19:00.641 ⇒ 00:19:02.510 Uttam Kumaran: So it should be a pretty
245 00:19:02.530 ⇒ 00:19:05.969 Uttam Kumaran: good week, I think. You know, once we get through a lot of the
246 00:19:06.555 ⇒ 00:19:07.800 Uttam Kumaran: like kind of
247 00:19:09.700 ⇒ 00:19:13.060 Uttam Kumaran: like dissection of all the stuff on sales. I think
248 00:19:13.070 ⇒ 00:19:17.069 Uttam Kumaran: more of the the week will be just like on engineering on that side.
249 00:19:18.990 ⇒ 00:19:23.370 Uttam Kumaran: but yeah, like no other bigger news. I we we had a
250 00:19:23.400 ⇒ 00:19:37.320 Uttam Kumaran: period of time where we’re doing weeklies, and then I kind of got so busy. Now I’m like back into groups. So we’ll probably do this on Monday, Fridays, but they’ll be like this, like I think on Fridays we’ll do more of like a retro, just like talking about how the week went for everybody.
251 00:19:37.764 ⇒ 00:19:39.479 Uttam Kumaran: And things we want to improve like
252 00:19:40.080 ⇒ 00:19:47.649 Uttam Kumaran: we can do more formal retro but we’re a small team, and I think everybody can just be honest if things are going well or not.
253 00:19:48.620 ⇒ 00:19:50.339 Uttam Kumaran: And then.
254 00:19:50.710 ⇒ 00:19:57.790 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I think we’re me and Nico are also meeting once a week to kind of do notion cleanup.
255 00:19:57.830 ⇒ 00:19:58.915 Uttam Kumaran: Basically.
256 00:20:00.250 ⇒ 00:20:08.120 Uttam Kumaran: we’re starting to use notion just for everything. So trying to put all documents in there. But one thing we realize is we kind of need some upkeep.
257 00:20:08.150 ⇒ 00:20:18.389 Uttam Kumaran: Basically, it’s kind of like a code base for docs. So me and it will be meeting once a week just to like clean stuff up and do things in notion. But everybody has access to notion. Don’t be afraid to like.
258 00:20:18.510 ⇒ 00:20:23.909 Uttam Kumaran: create new workflows or create new areas. Just let me know, so that we can keep things organized.
259 00:20:24.374 ⇒ 00:20:28.019 Uttam Kumaran: But consider notion, like the hub for the company, basically.
260 00:20:29.910 ⇒ 00:20:31.340 Uttam Kumaran: and
261 00:20:31.700 ⇒ 00:20:35.299 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I don’t think I have anything else other than that really
262 00:20:39.680 ⇒ 00:20:40.480 Uttam Kumaran: cool
263 00:20:41.005 ⇒ 00:20:47.350 Uttam Kumaran: if nothing else. Then I guess we’ll just talk on slack later today, and then I’ll probably speak with some of you all
264 00:20:47.560 ⇒ 00:20:48.290 Uttam Kumaran: tomorrow.
265 00:20:49.240 ⇒ 00:20:52.770 Atharv Gudi: Yeah. Just one thing. I don’t.
266 00:20:52.770 ⇒ 00:20:54.390 Uttam Kumaran: Moving. Gone you’re moving right.
267 00:20:54.570 ⇒ 00:21:00.249 Atharv Gudi: Yes, this whole week is actually kind of tumultuous for me. So there’s I have gre tomorrow.
268 00:21:01.110 ⇒ 00:21:03.970 Atharv Gudi: That’s effective afternoon I still have.
269 00:21:04.060 ⇒ 00:21:13.779 Atharv Gudi: I don’t know how it’s gonna go. It’s gonna go. However it goes. And then Friday, I know I’m not gonna be able to attend the retro because I’m dying out right about, then.
270 00:21:14.060 ⇒ 00:21:14.730 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
271 00:21:14.990 ⇒ 00:21:16.470 Atharv Gudi: And then
272 00:21:17.110 ⇒ 00:21:19.919 Atharv Gudi: the next time I’ll be able to talk is Saturday.
273 00:21:20.570 ⇒ 00:21:24.680 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, so all all of our meetings on sales stuff this week will just be recorded.
274 00:21:24.690 ⇒ 00:21:30.583 Uttam Kumaran: So you have access to that. You can just watch it on 2 x, and like it should be pretty easy. And then,
275 00:21:31.040 ⇒ 00:21:32.370 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, let’s just
276 00:21:32.520 ⇒ 00:21:39.090 Uttam Kumaran: good luck on that. Like, yeah, just log off all this stuff and like, focus on that and then we’ll catch up again next week.
277 00:21:39.260 ⇒ 00:21:40.170 Atharv Gudi: Yes.
278 00:21:41.220 ⇒ 00:21:41.820 Uttam Kumaran: Call
279 00:21:43.380 ⇒ 00:21:46.640 Uttam Kumaran: okay. Awesome. Well, thanks, guys, I’ll talk to everyone soon.
280 00:21:46.640 ⇒ 00:21:48.570 Ryan Luke Daque: Thanks. Everyone. Nice meeting you, Abigail.
281 00:21:48.570 ⇒ 00:21:50.670 Nicolas Sucari: Thanks, guys. Bye, bye.