{"id":1448,"date":"2014-11-18T23:31:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T07:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2014-11-18T23:31:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T07:31:50","slug":"2-days-til-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/11\/18\/2-days-til-30\/","title":{"rendered":"2 days til 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bad\u00c2\u00a0moments\/learnings\/thoughts\/regrets of the decade in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amelia&#8217;s surgery<\/li>\n<li>Birthday break up<\/li>\n<li>Shep leaving San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>My family falling apart<\/li>\n<li>How hard it is to call people on the East Coast<\/li>\n<li>My dependence on always being connected<\/li>\n<li>Losing touch with playing soccer more often<\/li>\n<li>Losing any semblance of athletic conditioning<\/li>\n<li>Being above my target weight at the end of the decade \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<li>Not exploring other work opportunities to better understand what I want to do<\/li>\n<li>Not starting my own company<\/li>\n<li>Not being a better engineer<\/li>\n<li>Not spending enough time on charity\/giving<\/li>\n<li>When Ron got kicked out of TokBox<\/li>\n<li>Friends getting divorced<\/li>\n<li>Not learning to trust more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad\u00c2\u00a0moments\/learnings\/thoughts\/regrets of the decade in no particular order: Amelia&#8217;s surgery Birthday break up Shep leaving San Francisco My family falling apart How hard it is to call people on the East Coast My dependence on always being connected Losing touch with playing soccer more often Losing any semblance of athletic conditioning Being above my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-nm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1450,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/11\/19\/1-day-til-30\/","url_meta":{"origin":1448,"position":0},"title":"1 day til 30","date":"November 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The good\u00c2\u00a0moments\/learnings\/thoughts\/regrets of the decade in no particular order: Meeting Micky\u00c2\u00a0&\u00c2\u00a0marrying Micky Moving to California Learning how to build a product Luka Amelia Getting OpenTok built, and convincing Ian it was a good idea Birthday break up Growing up, and building a team at TokBox Building a product that got\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;just thinking out loud&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1271,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/10\/22\/29-days-til-30\/","url_meta":{"origin":1448,"position":1},"title":"29 days til 30","date":"October 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Since Micky and I are both hitting a decade this year, we (well, me really, but let's say we for arguments sake) started to talk about decade goals. 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