Derek Sivers

Santhosh Sundararaman

Met 2023-02-14 15:00 at Taj Connemara, Binny Road, Anna Salai, Chennai, Chennai, India.

Moved to the US in 2004: Kansas then California. Moved to Pune India in 2017.

Pune has good monsoons: less waterlogging.

Difficult moving back because everything had changed, so they didn’t know how to do anything like set up utilities.

Spending time out from career being a full-time dad to toddler and baby.

Reading Sapiens changed his mind about religion.

Maharashtra have strong pride in their culture: statues of Shivaji like a demigod.

Tamil Nadu in the 90s: signs were in Tamil, Hindi, English. People were blacking-out the Hindi, protesting Hindi in Tamil Nadu.

He told me about the Vande Bharat Express train from Chennai to Bangalore, then booked it for me. It was great.

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