Last Day at Yahoo!
Yesterday was my last day at Yahoo!, and at Yahoo! Answers. It was the usual last day at work with the cube cleaning, deleting personal files from the harddrive, a farewell lunch, bequeathing accumulated swag and memorabila to colleagues and a happy hour with silly balloon hats. This morning when I woke up and saw the little cardboard box that contained 2 years worth of crap that had accumulated on my desk, I was struck by how small that box was, and how the contents of that little box did not even begin to tell the stories of the last 2 years of my life - the smiles of co-workers, the bitter political in-fighting, the disappointments and drunken hilarity. And then I thought of a short story that I read in college about the man who remembered everything in real time, and so could not live his life (he kept on remembering his past….). Then I thought, hmmm, what about a video memory of your life in YouTube?
October 22nd, 2006 at 2:27 pm
So what’s next?
Some advice from a fellow Yahoo! veteran (I left in May this year):
- You so need to take your big gulp Yahoo! water bottle with you. It takes a while to fill up so is a great excuse for getting gossip whilst at the water cooler in a new company
- Grab a timbuk2 laptop bag from the Yahoo! shop in building D of the Sunnyvale campus, they are the one thing worth having in there
February 19th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Your “about” page still lists you working @ Yahoo. Maybe it’s time to cut the cord and update it?