{"id":1435,"date":"2016-10-13T07:02:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2016-10-13T11:47:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T18:47:58","slug":"the-down-day-hack-reminiscing-your-last-day-e-mail-from-an-earlier-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-down-day-hack-reminiscing-your-last-day-e-mail-from-an-earlier-job\/","title":{"rendered":"The down day hack&#8211;Reminiscing your last day e-mail from an earlier job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The startup experience is a collection of up and down moments&#8211;whether you are a founder or not. The moment you commit yourself to a cause, it&#8217;s no longer a compartment of your brain which can be turned off. A few days ago, I had a down day which lasted 24-ish hours, but luckily I chanced upon something which brought me back from gloom.<\/p>\n<p>While looking for a random message, I found an e-mail which I sent while leaving Oracle, earlier this year in March. Reading that thread and re-collecting the love people gave after I sent that note warmed my heart. Thanks to the lovely messages, I was back to drinking virgin Pina Colada!<\/p>\n<p>I never thought I&#8217;d ever publish this e-mail outside, but here it is, slightly redacted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/oracle_last_day_email1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1451\" title=\"oracle_last_day_email\" src=\"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/oracle_last_day_email1.png\" alt=\"oracle_last_day_email\" width=\"561\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/oracle_last_day_email1.png 561w, https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/oracle_last_day_email1-234x300.png 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The startup experience is a collection of up and down moments&#8211;whether you are a founder or not. The moment you commit yourself to a cause, it&#8217;s no longer a compartment of your brain which can be turned off. A few days ago, I had a down day which lasted 24-ish hours, but luckily I chanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}