{"id":118763,"date":"2025-04-20T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T14:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=118763"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:51:13","slug":"sunday-night-ruchir-and-rashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2025\/04\/20\/sunday-night-ruchir-and-rashi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night &#8211; Ruchir and Rashi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Today DIane and I drove down to Peekskill NY. I&#8217;ve been invited to speak at an IBM even on Tuesday and took advantage of that trip to do soem much needed reconnectign with IBM Freinds <br \/><br \/>On the way down we listtened to &#8220;Ambundence&#8217; the new book by Ezra Kline (NYT) and Derrick Johnson (The Atlantic) Its about how the liberal mindset (and I absolutely have a liberal mindset)\u00a0 has inadvertently contributed tot he slowdown of &#8216;getting things done&#8217;&#8230; like building affordable housing, revitalizing manufacturing like semiconductors and mass transit. The authors say our deep conviction to consider everyones concerns, and look out for everyone&#8217;s causes\u00a0 has contributed to so much friction in the system.. that projects take longer and cost more than anyoen intended. It&#8217;s a very interestign read.. I dont agree with everything the authors say.. but there are soen deep truths in there.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After settlign into our Airbnb in Peekskill.. what a cute town .. we headed over to our good freinds Ruchir and Rashi;s . Ruchir has been a close friend and co-worker for more than 20 years..\u00a0 We have a mtual mentoring relations hip that I value very. very much.\u00a0 \u00a0We also feel close ot\u00a0 Ruchirs wife Rashi, their kids TIsha and Anika&#8230; and even\u00a0 Rashi&#8217;s parents.<br \/><br \/>We had a wonderful home cooked indian dinner that Rashi and her mom had cooked.. amazingly delicious. over dinner . talked about life,. kids, work, politics..\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/C1CBC4AF-9E4E-4FCC-9C7E-13982EEE3475_4_5005_c.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=360 360w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"480\" data-id=\"118187\" 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data-id=\"118194\" data-link=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/fef8cd6a-cd90-43f5-9a44-e73087e17a9b_4_5005_c\/\" data-url=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FEF8CD6A-CD90-43F5-9A44-E73087E17A9B_4_5005_c.jpeg\" data-width=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FEF8CD6A-CD90-43F5-9A44-E73087E17A9B_4_5005_c.jpeg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" aria-label=\"Open image 7 of 7 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>it felt so good to catch up !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nite all, nite sam<br \/>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today DIane and I drove down to Peekskill NY. I&#8217;ve been invited to speak at an IBM even on Tuesday and took advantage of that trip to do soem much needed reconnectign with IBM Freinds On the way down we listtened to &#8220;Ambundence&#8217; the new book by Ezra Kline (NYT) and Derrick Johnson (The Atlantic) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2025\/04\/20\/sunday-night-ruchir-and-rashi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday night &#8211; Ruchir and Rashi<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118764,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118763\/revisions\/118764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}