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Happy Monday subscribers! A lot of excellent news from an action-packed week that me through three states (including NY lol) and maybe too much airport.

First off, congrats to esteemed subscriber Noah Curran for successfully defending his PhD! It was inspiring to see the culmination of his academic journey and really great to hang out with him throughout the day. Please send him congrats!

Honestly it was a beautiful day for it to happen as well — all the beautiful Michigan fall colors were out on display and the nostalgic autumn chill brought back all the memories of walking through Purdue's campus. Except for the fact that we were in the inifinitely more impressive campus of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

It was also fitting that I then proceeded to spend most of the day leading up to Noah's defense handling an issue at work — which also happened to be where me and my hackathon team camped out back in 2017.

And second off the INAUGURAL AK5K TOOK PLACE THIS WEEKEND!!! In honor of esteemed subscriber Akshay Pawar and Spike Lee, we gathered 17 people to go on a fun run through LIC. Why? Well back in August esteemed subscriber Akshay Pawar mentioned to me that he wanted to run a 5K by the end of the year. But since he had not signed up for anything by mid-September I decided to set one up for him!!! After a long month of planning with esteemed subscribers Matt Jewison and Magdalene Lam ... we did it! And we had apple cider and apple cider donuts at the end for everyone!

So much more happened this week as well ... went to Miami and even had the first friendsgiving of the season! Maybe I need to write a short one about that later.

Final announcement — the Simba calendar for 2027 is coming out soon! I need to gauge interest to set the final price BUT it will be less than $20. The more people that are interested the cheaper it will be! Please fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/QBGn8R5uWeRuJhYw9.

See you guys next week! And here are some AK5K pics. Enjoy!

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I was in Miami for work recently and I saw this chicken!

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