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Spent this week in #AnnArbor catching up with my team and learning about new attacks in cybersecurity and what we can do better as a team to build tools to track them. Everyone on my team is remote - different part of the US, Italy, Australia, Thailand so it's nice to have some time to catch up in person and try to fix aka drink our problems even if it's only for a few days. 🤪 I'm super pumped after these sessions - my co-workers are crazy smart and our skillsets vary a lot so it's always inspiring to spend some time in their midst ‍ Stole some time to catch up with some people and explore a little bit of Detroit on the side. This photo is from Lincoln Street park, an abandoned industrial site turned arts park and centre for recycling. All the art installations are from salvaged and recycled parts - embelmatic of Detroit's resilience and growing conscience for the environment. Not all superheros wear capes, some adorn a saree and others a veshti. Happy mother's day to my wonderful, strong, resourceful, and hilarious mum. You make my world go around. 🧡 Spent a rainy afternoon exploring the artsy town of #Woodstock in the Catskills mountains. Apparently, there was a super famous music festival named after this town in the 60s and for over a century many art and music movements started here. Word had it that those days, you only had to throw a stone and you’d hit a musician square in the face in Woodstock. I didn't have the faintest idea about any of this but we saw traces of the kitschy, tie-dye, free-love hippie culture from that era. The colorful small town exudes a very bohemian vibe today and there are lots of eclectic music and art boutiques/ shops and cute cafés dotting its streets. We even spotted a shop called Pondicherry. {Pondicherry is a former French colonial town about 2 hours from where I am from in India} All in all, a very interesting pitstop before wrapping our #NewYork road trip. ☮️🤘
I have been flying to Detroit for about six years now. I have always seen it as a skulking shadow of it’s former Motor-town glory days. When I first came here, I imagined it to be this great city assembling a lot of the world’s automobiles but instead I saw and heard from locals about high crime rates, breaking-bad style crack dens in abandoned buildings, post-recession bankruptcy hangover so my brief visits were always a little too brief. Over the last few trips, I have been seeing something new. Detroit seems to be reinventing itself, brick by brick and idea by idea. It is still kind of gritty in parts but I can tell it’s changing. I hear businesses and investments have been moving and opening shop in Detroit, including Nike, Quicken Loans, Shinola, Google amidst others. The automobile companies have a new purpose leaning into the electric car and auto-driving trends. There are a lot of cool new restaurants, craft cocktail bars, coffee shops, co-working spaces. @heynowsarah and @jchouinard83 took us a few cool spots this week and I have a new perspective. Sounds like all of this will create more jobs, more revenue, and lift the residents from the doldrums but will it also trickle down to the people who need to be lifted the most? I hope so. I see your spunk and spirit, Detroit—and I’m shooting for your comeback. File under favorite things: Masala chai, long spring walks with family, and cherry blossom laden park benches Gushing
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