#roopac

I gave a shot at Accenture interview and was in the last round. The interviewer asked which was considered so typical back then- where do you see yourself 10 years down the lane? Me, with all flying mode, already having an offer in hand, remember shrugging off and replying him- I would see myself in the cover page of Time magazine. Looking back, it was fun. I eventually sucked at that interview and joined Cognizant –which raised me up for the most part of the next 10 years followed.

I’m here to jot down the yearly habit of writing notes. I missed the 2018 train and dont want to make missing a habit. But yes, let’s cut some slack for the new daddy and the full time entrepreneur (?!)

She and him.

So follow-up to where I ended my 2018 post. That december disaster indeed got real. In the middle of 2019, I was married to Gomathi and sometime in the year followed, we had a boy. It’s now, like the next two years with commitment rate of 300%. Someone please let this life breath well and take it slow? Hunting a name for the boy or planning a small getaway, it’s by far been a long quest in finding a common ground. I’m more thrilled about this year as we begin to build the family full time.

V

The best company you can ever get. The cognizance, the style, questioning just everything, taking care of little ones, V is nicely doing it all- and with passion and elan.

Work

We moved to a new dedicated place from the garage (immediate saving: no mosquitoes!). And this helped us scale team (now we are four), explore new markets, create a new name (roopac along with cardnival), and the ride by far is nothing but fascinating. As we pan out new and creative ways to reach market, we had some convincing numbers to validate our experiments and we are now all in, doubling the efforts. If there is a new thing I’ve personally learnt, it is snowballing small clients and seeing it become a large amount. Along the run, we even had to grievingly let go one of our latest sales hires.

Reads and Cinema

Ride of a lifetime by Disney boss, Shoe Dog by Nike boy, Deep work from Cal Newport, and Yuval’s 2018 release: 21 lessons resonated so well. A rare find on twitter, Naval Ravikant’s wisdom is so beautifully told to an extent that I tried exploring ways to name the kid of us with Naval but ended up with Agan Murugasamy.

OTTs and Podcasts were so much 2019, I’ve subscribed to what not and listened/seen almost everything that was brought to me by internet. Staying current with Shunya One and She says she’s fine. I also loved seeing the might Forrest Gump for the first time and watching Super Deluxe (Tamil) was an acing experience

Running

I have kept at running for most part of the year. A mile a day, 20 runs a month-at a pace of 10.5-11.25 minutes a mile. Fairly good isn’t it? I skipped running half marathons and I might pass this year too. Best find was Annamalai University ground- but would be sad to see it go this year. In all, the days with no morning run somewhow felt shaddy. Did I also tell, transit to Chidambaram- Tiruppur covered most of my foursquare checkins?