Lisa Mahapatra @lisamahapatra Twitter profile

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Lisa Mahapatra

6 years

There is no industry standard for a #datavisualization that allows investors to make a comparison between the assets and liabilities of a securitization. So I designed one: #fintech #structuredfinance #dataviz

Feynmanning My Way To a Useful Deal Structure Diagram

A few months after I was thrown head-first into the weird, wonky world of structured finance as a data viz/data experience designer for…

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

11 months

Absolute banger from a group chat I'm in

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

I like working for startups. I like skin-in-the-game. But I took a job at Uber because I knew I wanted a family at some point and thought I needed a nice, safe job at a Large Co. I'm about a week away from popping out a baby and I just got laid off from my nice, safe job, welp.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

20 days

What's the correct age to teach your children that most people are stupid? My parents didn't let on for a long time and I was too autistic to figure it out by myself and idk if that was optimal...

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@patio11

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In Lillian’s continuing battle with American math fanfiction, you should have seen the frustration with this problem. “I know I should not use that American word ‘duh’ because you should not say ‘duh’ to teachers but this is the ‘duh’ of all ‘duh.’ Math for 2 year old?!?”

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

11 months

@Molson_Hart I imagine you could say "you look like <Trans person they've expressed admiration for>" I mean idk man I barely go out

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@lisamahapatra

11 months

@squigglymips But you'd think a woman who thinks another woman is beautiful would enjoy being compared to her.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

Saw a lot of tweets not too long ago questioning the value of the technological advances we've made as a society this past decade or so — now that we're living with a pandemic, try to imagine your life without these "unimportant" tech advances.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

Bought my daughter a dancing cactus toy...that appears to be singing and dancing to a polish song about cocaine addiction???

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

Sent my dad a photo of my belly. "You look like a normal distribution" *giggles* "WITH FAT TAILS" *proceeds to lose it*

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

I know @paulg is brilliant and stuff, but at this point I just really want to chill with his kids. Feel like we'd vibe.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

7 months

Trees in my front yard forming natural pinhole cameras to see the eclipse through!

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

If you were attractive enough wouldn't *you* thirstpaost too? If you are attractive enough, and NOT thristpoasting, why?

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 months

We desperately want pretty and charming women to be good at STEM and are willing to grasp at straws to make it so

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@MelancholyYuga

4 months

So I finally indulged my curiosity about l'affaire Oxman and spent five minutes browsing her dissertation. The problems with it are, if anything, way worse than seem to have been reported.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

2 years

Ah, Aella too suffers from the absolute most classic of female dating problems of only wanting to date up.

Aella

@Aella_Girl

2 years

ok wheres that meetup full of emotionally mature, driven/successful, horny, high testosterone, 3< stdev IQ guys again? just curious

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

Accidentally picked the most perfect neighborhood to raise a child in

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

Just heard from HR regarding my severance — it's generous, appropriate and takes into account my situation. @Uber is doing the right thing. #uber #layoffs

Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

I like working for startups. I like skin-in-the-game. But I took a job at Uber because I knew I wanted a family at some point and thought I needed a nice, safe job at a Large Co. I'm about a week away from popping out a baby and I just got laid off from my nice, safe job, welp.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

20 days

@patio11 I hope you write about it. I think that my behavior as a child would have been very different and far more positive had a better understanding of this. For too long I believed that people were being deliberately obtuse and it frustrated me and I behaved poorly.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 months

In the Google reviews of this Guatemalan restaurant we're thinking of going to today

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

11 months

@BenjBenjBenjM @squigglymips No?

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

@sashachapin The other extreme exists. Joined a startup as cofounder 4 months into being a mother and I cannot tell you how much I LOVE everything I'm doing right now. Raising baby, raising startup, raising funding and upping the tradwife skillz.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

2 years

Oh you think *you're* trad? I'm soooooooo trad I caught consumption! Yes, in 2021, I somehow managed get 0 covids, but I did manage to contract tuberculosis. (It's not pulmonary and I'm not contagious)

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

So I agree this is not a bad idea but why the fuck would you ANNOUCE that you're not arresting people for various crimes

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4 years

Due to the coronavirus crisis, Philadelphia police will no longer be making arrests for all narcotics offenses, theft from persons, retail theft, theft from auto, burglary, vandalism, bench warrants, stolen autos, economic crimes such as passing bad checks, fraud, & prostitution.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

Women owned business that hires exclusively women, it's a brothel

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

11 months

Fat people who knew I used to be fat are extremely offended by my having lost weight because it suggests this is possible

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

20 days

I just quit my job in this shitty shit market, pray for me 🙏

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

1 month

OK chick fil a

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

Two weeks ago I tweeted that I was looking for a job. About an hour later @dboskovic DM'd and asked if I'd like to work at @flatfilers . I accepted their offer, and the whole team just happened to be in the same room at their offsite at the time. This was the welcome I received:

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@lisamahapatra

3 years

@bigmastertroll Therapists are enablers. They just tell you all the dumb and bad shit you're doing is actually ok and justified.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

20 days

@alicemazzy I was repeatedly gaslit by teachers smh

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

Asked husband if I was the funniest girl he ever dated and he paused to think about it

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

1 year

How would your perception of Aella's interestingness change if you didn't think she was hot? By how many standard deviations? How're you doing on the self-awareness front?

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

1 year

We have acquired some dinosaurs for Riva's birthday party and she immediately assigned seating for them

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

7 years

@TheFix How to properly signal your tribe affiliations. Because pandering > nuance, right?

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

Scallion, garlic and mozz rolled milk buns: extreme Chungus stage

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

@Mqsley Thank you so much — I'm going to focus on getting used to being a mom for a bit, but would love to chat in a few months! (I'm a product designer who works on either internal data tools or advanced analytics tools aimed at expert users. Especially interested in Fintech.)

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

If you have a wife and aren't a wife guy, why is that?

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

Just heard from HR regarding my severance — it's generous, appropriate and takes into account my situation. @Uber is doing the right thing. #uber #layoffs

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

I recently discovered that all tap water tastes the same to my husband and it's blowing my mind. There's a huge variation in tap water taste, and it is a significant factor in where I choose to live. Found out 3 years after being married to the dude.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

I do not think such a thing would be possible to do today in most "modern" societies.

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@splattne

3 years

In 1930 the Indiana Bell building was rotated 90°. Over a month, the structure was moved 15 inch/hr, all while 600 employees still worked there. There was no interruption to gas, heat, electricity, water, sewage, or the telephone service they provided. No one inside felt it move.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

We too are moving to Texas. We just signed a contract on this amazing Art Deco house in Austin that has a discotheque, an elevator and — instead of a fridge it simply has a hole in the floor. I LOVE IT. Shoutout to @jasoncrouch who found this gem.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

2 years

This thread is probably the best explanation for why you better fucking conform to the (relatively new) woke norms or else It's not about controlling <alleged marginalized group> its about controlling what you can say about them

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

2 years

Having a lot of really, implausibly, extremely smart friends sure is a lesson in how dumb you can be despite being 2 standard deviations from the norm in the right direction.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

Imagine your life without online shopping and the associated infrastructure that makes it easier for some to stay home, others to work with lower risk of contracting or spreading infection.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

If you know of a team looking for a data-table obsessed product designer who would prefer to leave the visual design bits to others who are more competent, hit me up. I just quit my startup.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

11 months

@mollymcghee @guitarxy Have you considered working at Trader Joe's, I think they pay a fair bit more than that.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

Super exciting uterus related news pertaining to @stucchio and I. Due June 2020!

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

1 year

I've told my daughter that her eyes turn blue every time she tells lies so now when she's lying she hides her eyes

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

6 months

Mom said it was my turn to be openai's CEO

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

Imagine your life without video conferencing — not only did it make the decision to WFH an easier one for many companies, it's also possible to dispense all sorts of medical & mental health care via video conf. I've shifted a bunch of my prenatal appointments to online visits.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

5 years

@calebwatney Take the time to understand the differences in your utility functions, find the arbitrage.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

Riva Stucchio made an appearance about two weeks ago. Thus far she has revealed a strong preference for boobs and being wrapped, and emotions ranging from extreme indifference to outrage towards nearly everything else.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

Brain update: Apparently I had a large tumor but it exploded and got reabsorbed into my body BUT it fucked my pituitary good and it is unlikely to ever recover. I do have a teeny tumor in addition that may or may not be a problem, as well as a Rathke cyst. So, more tests. 🥺

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@lisamahapatra

3 years

My attempt to self diagnose what's sort of fuckery is going on with my body, since I do not have the patience to wait on a doctor to tell me. (Gotta put those journalism and fashion degrees to good use amirite) Here's what I know:

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

5 years

Wait you can buy stock at Target? Weird. (Image via /r/Wallstreet bets)

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

1 year

Made Japanese milk bread again but this time I braided it

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

NO ONE PREPARED ME FOR THIS

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

11 months

What if bears but also also hear me out, smol and cute like kitties

why you should have an animal

@shouldhaveanima

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Red Pandas are so cute

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

2 years

At a restaurant waiting for our food. Every time someone that's not us gets food, she gets really mad and boos.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

2 years

Gonna invite @gwern to dinner one of these days and refer to it as the gwern meetup just to fuck with everyone who's wondering why they weren't invited

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

Most expectant mothers: sewing cute lil onsies and impossibly smol hats. Me: look ma I made a mask using that 100% cotton uniqlo tee I bought on sale for $3~ and then never wore!

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

2 years

It's been about 6 weeks since I started taking semaglutide, the improvement in dopamine function is astonishing. Significant reduction in OCD behavior, at a low dose I see this having a massive impact as a mental health treatment.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

2 years

Tempted to respond to every hysterionic essay about how upsetting it is that there are no vaccines for toddlers with this chart

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 months

I've said a lot of stupid stuff that I've pulled outta my ass on data viz that resulted in "and then they clapped" behavior and have been trotted out in front of clients etc to sound good and I'm just really fucking glad most of that drivel never made it to the internet.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

Imagine your life without the plethora of contactless food delivery services that continue to be available to many despite the circumstances.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

5 years

I would like for everyone to be extremely proud of me for making this chicken curry from scratch (even the ginger-garlic paste whoa who am I). It's in a bowl with Cauli rice and FRESH cilantro and I only had to call my mom 3x. #ketogenic

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

2 years

I so wanted to attend @bryan_caplan 's talk at UT today, alas I cannot, as I read a book of his that prompted me to make a person, who I now have to pick up from daycare at about the same time.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

All sorts of entertainment is more easily available and accessible than ever before — I'm guessing that by making quarantine less miserable this had a not-insignificaht effect on adherence.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

Should I create an alt with the handle @paella_girl and post strange pics of me eating rice that are confusingly sexy and ask my simps, er followers, uncomfortable existential questions

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

I will literally get a tumor removed from my brain instead of going to therapy.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

Husband accidentally shaved instead of trimming his face hair and I cannot wait for daughter to wake up and see.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

1 year

5 reps of squats at *more* than body weight!!!! !!!!

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

Even social media plays a net positive role IMHO — easier to stay in touch with loved ones who you might not be otherwise be able to see.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

6 years

Soon, there will be no nations. Just Amazon delivery regions.

Austen Allred

@Austen

6 years

Ordered something on Amazon, got an email 5 mins later, “We upgraded you to same day delivery, it will be there by 5 PM!” How will anyone ever compete with them?

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

11 months

@TheAnnaGat @antoniogm I think he's alluding to the lack of poop and insane people on the streets where old money lives

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 months

Because then I'd have to expend effort into exorcising said drivel of the internet. And I'm just...like kinda cute and aesthetically pleasing as someone saying smart sounding STEM stuff. Coming outta Oxman's mouth, like damn, potent stuff.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

9 months

I never wanted children until I met my husband and have zero desire to raise children that are not mine. I suspect I'd be an exceptionally poor mother to a child that did not share my inclinations.

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@webdevMason

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It's a really good thing to want to make babies with the person you love, actually People who are uneasy with the natural progression of romantic love will always have unhinged ethics

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2 years

"Do you want chocolate?" *Nods* "if you say Mama I'll give you chocolate." "No." Unbelievable levels of trolling from a sub-two year old.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

1 year

I used to hang out with a lot of gay dudes in Hyderabad back in the day and it's wild to see so many of them straight married with kids on Facebook

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@lisamahapatra

3 months

Please, all of you, for the love of God, just eat a whole ball of fresh mozz instead of that disgusting protein bar

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Mozzarella sticks are a delicious snack. I can eat 4-5 of them in lieu of a light meal. Is there any reason not to eat just, a whole ball of fresh mozzarella?

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@lisamahapatra

2 years

If you're stuck having to take a bunch of medication in front of a toddler who insists on cargo culting everything you do, highly recommend low dose children's chewable vitamin C

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

My dad mostly talks to my daughter in Odiya, much like my mother and I. Just heard him automatically switch to English when talking to my cat. He kept switching back to Odiya with Riva when attempting to navigate cat-baby diplomacy.

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@lisamahapatra

3 years

She will not look at me when I tell her to absolutely not she's busy

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

10 years

Where are #journalists being held prisoner? Mostly Turkey, Iran and China. More in #charts at: http://t.co/E0HB7VzvuO http://t.co/X9ma5XJsrs

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

Of course I want attention!! But only from people significantly more attractive than me or high status in some other way, sorry my standards are very high.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

4 years

A colleague on @uber 's BaseWeb team just told me that the rich-data-table component I spent a bunch of time working on last year is the the single most-used #dataviz design system component at Uber, especially the @UberFreight team. It's open source!

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Lisa Mahapatra

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1 year

My last two workouts were moving about ~500lb of wood from our backyard to the street and I'm really proud I was able to do it. I guess these vanity workouts where I get too tired to do anything after I finish squats and deadlifts are doing something.

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

Taped a square on the floor to see if my cat would sit on it and well...

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

3 years

What if San Francisco is just a very large, poorly-run prison with shit gates that allows regular people to live there too?

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3 years

We will make changes to ensure that people on parole receive the supervision and structure needed from parole to prevent this kind of tragedy from recurring.

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Lisa Mahapatra

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2 years

This is most bizzare incidence of Linkedin harassment I've seen in a bit. A friend (A) is hiring a founding designer for her startup. She interviewed a woman named B for the role. Shortly after she recieves this message from Ryan on LinkedIn.

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4 years

Had to take an uber to go to the doctor's today, and I gotta say I was very impressed with my uber driver's anti-corona setup.

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Lisa Mahapatra

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7 months

I'm suuuuuuppppervising

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

2 years

True love is when your husband asks you to buy "Mountain Sunrise" cereal and you know what the fuck he's talking about

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4 months

My smart dishwasher tells me exactly how many times my husband opened the dishwasher while it was running and as far as i can tell this is the *only* thing it can do

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

5 months

I have high cholesterol, very high LDL levels. Got bullied into taking statins, dosage increase after about 4 months. Slow creep of fatigue. At about 6 months in I'd be waking up exhausted, basically dysfunctional after lunch. Stopped taking them about 4 days ago.

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Lisa Mahapatra

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3 years

Set my dough outdoors, right outside my kitchen door, to proof AND SOMETHING STOLE IT WHAT THE FUCK TEXAS

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2 years

@micsolana If someone could send these engineers my way, I'd be grateful. Can guarantee a pretty based work environment. DMs open.

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I'm helping

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3 years

Well meaning baby attempts to befriend aloof cat who is having absolutely none of it

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1 year

I just keep looking at this and CACKLING

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

2 years

They really are just firing people based on race, how is this remotely legal Flabbergasted

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Lisa Mahapatra

@lisamahapatra

5 years

I love walks. I loved walking around NYC. I pretty much avoid walking anywhere in SF unless @stucchio , who is more physically imposing that I, is with me. Thread on why you shouldn't walk around SF, consistent with my own experiences:

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1/San Francisco is not the friendliest city. Here is a thread of some of the altercations I've seen over the past couple of years of living here...

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