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Aaron Gladders
West coast tech entrepreneur, founder/owner of 2Paths
Archives for the month of: January, 2009

I’ve been downsized!

January 30, 09 //
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Well, if I were still working at a warehouse like I did when I was…18? 19? Uh oh, not a good sign that I can’t remember.

I used to work in a warehouse as a “picker”. I’d drive around on a little electric vehicle picking up boxes from shelving units in long isles, assembling them into neat little cubes (yay for spatial training!) and delivering them to waiting semi’s. We used to compete on who could be the fastest, or just have yogurt fights. I was likely in the best shape of my life; who wants yogurt all over them? And I made some money to put me through university….and worked with some great people, some great memories.

And now, it appears we wouldn’t have as much fun:

Autonomous Robots Invade Retail Warehouses

but wow, how awesome is that? Another notch in Skynet’s belt.

Being a parent

January 7, 09 //
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An old friend from university sent ‘You Won’t Remember This Either’ which has a great quote in it:

What continues to amaze me about parenting is how it simultaneously expands and condenses time. The days can seem long, but the months fly by.

That really captures it for me. I feel like a goldfish sometimes. So I take video and photos in the hope that they will keep triggering the memories for me one day.

I went to the first video he did, ‘You Won’t Remember This’ and my wife spelled it out for me – that phase of our life is over.

There is something about the omnivorous now in parenting, and the constantly shifting challenges and demands of the moment, that creates a kind of rolling amnesia for everything yesterday.

I sure hope I got enough video of it cause I’m not much of an animator.

  • Tweets

    • From the sounds of it, the Mexicans know how to throw on a #fireworks spectacle #yvr @CelebOfLight 2 days ago
    • RT @wfdobie: The cutest thing on the internet - It really is the cutest thing. I wish I was a kid dreaming. http://tumblr.com/xwme94m7o 5 days ago
    • You know it's a lovely day when you feel the need to wear sunglasses inside. #waitingforthekidtowakeupfromnap 6 days ago
    • A double rainbow campaign: RT @mwh: Reading: How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made http://bit.ly/b3L0ii 2 weeks ago
    • nicely done BBC! RT @aaranged RT @opencalais: The BBC's application of semantic technology in World Cup reporting - http://bit.ly/codPLr 2 weeks ago
    • Scientific "proof" HFT changes the market; also a quick history of the exchanges leading to HFT http://ow.ly/2aAQZ #trading (@zerohedge) 2 weeks ago
    • Money on Spain? Calamari says so: http://ow.ly/29rxj 3 weeks ago
    • Someone has their funny pants on: "Artist's Rendering Of Ben Bernanke's Desktop" http://ow.ly/29qqQ 3 weeks ago
    • A bizarre trip down memory lane, great to see so many names I remember from #iss in singapore. Thx to Ellen Prins on facebook for... 3 weeks ago
    • Having one of those bizarrely wonderful days 1 month ago
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