{"id":1450,"date":"2014-11-19T22:08:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T06:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2014-11-19T22:08:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T06:08:03","slug":"1-day-til-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/11\/19\/1-day-til-30\/","title":{"rendered":"1 day til 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good\u00c2\u00a0moments\/learnings\/thoughts\/regrets of the decade in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meeting Micky\u00c2\u00a0&amp;\u00c2\u00a0marrying Micky<\/li>\n<li>Moving to California<\/li>\n<li>Learning how to build a product<\/li>\n<li>Luka<\/li>\n<li>Amelia<\/li>\n<li>Getting OpenTok built, and convincing Ian it was a good idea<\/li>\n<li>Birthday break up<\/li>\n<li>Growing up, and building a team at TokBox<\/li>\n<li>Building a product that got acquired<\/li>\n<li>Buying a house<\/li>\n<li>Traveling to new places<\/li>\n<li>Supporting friends in their new marriages<\/li>\n<li>Cooking an awesome baklava<\/li>\n<li>Keeping friends who I&#8217;ve known for a long time<\/li>\n<li>Making new friends who I&#8217;ll have for a long time<\/li>\n<li>Losing my fear of the unknown<\/li>\n<li>That crazy trip to NYC for New Year&#8217;s Eve<\/li>\n<li>My bachelor party<\/li>\n<li>Most things to do with Las Vegas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s so much more, but I just can&#8217;t remember it all \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good\u00c2\u00a0moments\/learnings\/thoughts\/regrets of the decade in no particular order: Meeting Micky\u00c2\u00a0&amp;\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 acquired Buying a house Traveling [&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-no","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":565,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2012\/10\/02\/building-consumer-tools-instead-of-consumer-products-re-posted-from-rainbow-hat-guy\/","url_meta":{"origin":1450,"position":0},"title":"Building consumer tools instead of consumer products (re-posted from Rainbow Hat Guy)","date":"October 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I want to be able to simplify the interactions I have in a given day to a single purpose. 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