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My cofounder [Bharath Kumar] manages the mechanical elements for the robot for the most part. We have in-house experts for electronics design, software, mechanical design, besides operations, sales and marketing. It is team work. Robotics is the perfect combination of all disciplines.Back in my college days, I hung out with a lot of mechanical engineering and electronics engineering professors and published papers in their core conferences. I was fascinated by robotics and image recognition and back then those were mechanical/electronics disciplines.During my Masters I spent even more time in robotics for my research thesis. Took a course with one of the top professors on the topic. We had to build walking robots for the course and every class we had to design it to fight in a league. Presented a poster at the AAAI conference in CMU when the first of self driving car concepts came out [2005]. Also, published a paper at the AAMAS conference in Utrecht on the topic of coordination between a large group of robots of different skills.Overall, I don’t see much value in compartmentalizing knowledge into arbitrary disciplines. These disciplines are quite interconnected.

I have both ADHD and a degree in Neuroscience/Psychology, so I speak from some experience (though I don't consider myself completely successful yet).ADHD isn't a disease per se. It's a term that describes the way your brain operates. Managing ADHD depends on you understanding the way your brain operates and organizing your life in a way to take advantage of your strengths and avoid triggering your weaknesses.In no particular order:1. Establish a support systemHave friends or family members there to support you. Consider seeing a therapist or expert who can help you develop common skills to compensate for your condition (which will likely be a lot of the things I'll say here, but note that my advice is no substitute for professional guidance). Don't be afraid to ask for help, but also don't rely on them for everything. Your goal is presumably to be able to function well on your own, in which case it's best to ask for help when you're trying to change your own behavior.2. Get rid of distractionsEven people without ADHD have to do this from time to time. Turn off your phone. Log off of Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Quora. Give your passwords to someone you trust (see #1) and have them change them temporarily so you can't access them. Uninstall your video games and/or unplug your game systems. Clear your computer desktop. Clean your workspace. Turn off the TV. Do whatever it takes to be able to focus when you need to.Your brain will always be tempted to latch onto the most interesting thing in your immediate vicinity, so you need to get rid of everything that could catch its attention.3. Be organizedPut your documents and supplies, tool, etc. where it's easiest to get them. You don't want to get up to look for your textbook and get distracted by a toy on your shelf, your Xbox in the corner, a book on the table, etc. Clean off your desk (which helps with #2). Know exactly where all your stuff is so you don't get intimidated by the thought of even looking for them much less working on them.4. Cut up big goals into small tasksDo you have a paper due in a week? Don't wait until the last minute and try to do it all at once. Chop it up into smaller, more manageable tasks: 1. diagram outline, 2. write intro, 3. write first paragraph, etc. The ADHD brain responds well to reward and accomplishment, and you'll get a sense of accomplishment by achieving these small tasks one by one. Give yourself little rewards (i.e. a piece of candy), but don't tempt yourself with a reward that might suck you in and distract you from the task at hand (i.e. getting to play video games).5. Consider medicationAs anyone who has taken ADHD meds can attest to, medications can not cure mental illnesses or disorders. They can, however, compensate for certain deficits (in the case of ADHD, attentional deficits) that will allow you to function semi-normally. Of course, that comes at a cost, aka side-effects.For example, in my experience, Adderall can be helpful in that it allows you to fixate on tasks long enough to see them to completion. However, to me, fixation is different from attention. If you were a car, your attentional capacity would be like your steering and handling capabilities, and improving attention would help you direct yourself onto a path and stay there.Increasing fixation, however, is like adding a turbo button that allows you to barrel forward at full speed in whatever direction you're facing. It can help you focus completely on writing a paper if you know how to control it, but if you're not used to it, you can just as easily find yourself spending 5 hours reorganizing your music collection, alphabetizing your bookshelves, cleaning your entire house, etc.Also, I never liked being on Adderall. It made me feel weird, and everyone I know who has ADHD and has taken it feels the same. It can be exhilarating, but also draining.I drew this comic once to describe how taking Adderall feels when you've been sleep-deprived for a while:In case you can't read it, the first panel is sleep-deprived me; the second panel is me after taking Adderall and thinking, "I CAN DO ALL THE THINGS"; and the third panel is my internal organs sobbing, cradling each other, and saying, "NO YOU CAN'T!!! OH GOD, NO, YOU CAN'T!!!"Which brings me to my last piece of advice:6. Get on a regular sleep cycle and get enough sleepI've been to multiple neuroscience conferences and I've found that for all the research on how to artificially improve cognitive function, everyone seems to ignore the most-studied supplement to all brain (and body) function: sleep.Getting enough sleep is extremely important for maintaining attention spans, as well as improving cognitive function and memory. Part of that means maintaining a normal sleep cycle (as in you go to bed and wake up at the same time every day) in which you get a least 7 to 8 hours of sleep. If you do that, you'll find your attention span will be at least somewhat (but oftentimes greatly) improved, so will your motivation and general energy. Too many people spend the majority of their lives in perpetual sleep deprivation, which impairs their attention spans and cognitive function.Update: I almost forgot the most important part!7. Figure out your definition of "success"This is the most important component of success for anyone, with or without ADHD. You need to figure out how you define success and what your goals are in order to determine how to achieve them. Otherwise you'll end up expending your energy in all directions towards all sorts of tasks and endeavors without ever really feeling like you've been successful.These successes can be short term and long term. You can have many different successes in life-- after all, "successful" means "full of success". You can define success as graduating from high school, then graduating from college, then getting a job, and even less career-driven goals, like maintaining healthy social relationships and positively affecting the lives of those around you.At the same time, don't be afraid or discouraged by failure. Everyone fails; those who succeed are the ones who were able to pick themselves back up again. Understand your limitations but learn from them and never stop trying to push them.Anyway, hopefully my advice helps somewhat.Good luck.

This was Trump’s rally. He had been promoting it for weeks. I think some people have the impression that this was an impromptu group of MAGAs (technically, I think a large collection of MAGAs is called a “suicide.”) But it had been planned? Of course it was planned.About a week before the event, Trump started calling it a “march” rather than a rally. He had been coordinating with the “March For Trump” bus tour, which was set up by a PAC for several events between late November and mid December, apparently to gin up fights about the electoral college. The last one was in Washington DC, mostly attended by militant white nationalist groups, and fairly small. No Trump, no Love? But was Trump taking to Amy Kermer, the lady behind the March for Trump (weirdly, the trumpmarch . com web site was created at the end of August… I guess someone knew there would be marching). Kermer also ran the “Tea Party Express” organization about a decade ago, and she ran “TrumPAC” in 2016. Was there a connection? Of course there was.Mother Jones had investigated Amy Kremer’s current organization, “Women for America First,” back in 2019. This group is a 501(c)(4) “dark money” organization that by law can only have limited involvement in political activities. As with other Kremer PACs, most of the money that comes in goes to the people in charge of the PAC and, at least this year, to funding various Trump campaign activities. Women for America First is essentially part of Trump’s political operation. Much of the funding for the January 6th rally came from this group.There were other sponsors, mostly run by people who are in regular contact with Trump. This was coordinated.Trump’s old advisor and puppetmaster, Steven Bannon, has sponsored the “March for Trump” bus tour from the beginning. Bannon was in regular contact with Trump after the election, and used his podcast over a dozen times to promote the rally and push for Trump’s coup d’etat, featuring some of the other rally organizers. This included a podcast on January 4th featuring sponsor Kylie Jane Kremer. Bannon said “… the game is going to start on Capitol Hill. I think one of the most historic days in American history will be Wednesday.”Mike Lindell, the “My Pillow” guy, who has been a very large spreader of conspiracy theories about the election, including vastly wrong information about voting machines, lies that right wing media are currently being sued over by the voting machine companies (they can’t actually do what the pillow guy claims they did). He has also paid for much of the work of Trump’s “Fox News TV Lawyers,” Lin Wood and Sidney Powell.Charlie Kirk and his PAC, Turning Point Action. The main work of Turning Point Action has been a campaign to work around the new limits on propaganda and conspiracy theories put in place on social media, running a Russian-style pro-Trump propaganda campaign. Two days before the January 6 rally, Kirk tweeted that Turning Point Action was “Sending 80+ buses full of patriots to DC to fight for this president.” He deleted the tweet shortly after the violence broke out.A web site called “Wild Protest” — referencing Trump’s claim that “it will get wild” — appeared in the weeks prior to the rally, and vanished immediately afterwards. It told viewers “We the People must take to the US Capitol lawn and steps and tell Congress #DoNotCertify on #JAN6! Congress cannot certify this fraudulent Electoral College. Our presence in Washington D.C. will let Members of Congress know that we stand with Rep. Mo Brooks and his colleagues in the House of Representatives who will bravely object to the certification of the Electoral College.” The rally permit did not allow people to go to Capitol lawn or steps.Tea Party Patriots was another sponsor. This is yet another group that’s funded by donations and spends most of the money collected on various activities done by the founders. On January 6, Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, posted a photo of herself at the pre-attack rally and noted, “I am here at the Save America March to fight for President Trump. We will not allow them to steal this election!” Sometime after the mob had ransacked the Capitol, the Tea Party Patriots were removed from the list of sponsors on the March for Trump’s website.Another Kremer organization, “Women for Trump” had obtained the permit for the rally, under the name “Kylie Jane Kremer,” Amy Kremer’s daughter. Kremer was one of the warm-up speakers prior to the Trump rally, and encouraged the crowd “We are not going to back down, are we? Keep up the fight!”Maybe it’s just me, but if every organization backing a rally is suggesting it’s a “fight,” and then there’s actually a fight, that’s not a surprise. That’s expected behavior. That’s what they were recruiting in their month-long online promotions of the event.From these various supporters, it’s obvious their plan was always to march down to the Capitol, despite this not being included in the mainstream ads for the event. And this was clearly coordinated with Trump, as he made that same recommendation, though nothing in the “Save America Rally” ad copy said anything about going to the Capitol. They actually couldn’t put that in print, given that they had no legal clearance to be at the Capitol. But clearly, Trump and many of the rallygoers understood what was going to happen. And the rest were urged on.So, it’s not clear just what was intended, but put together “march to the Capitol stairs” and “fight” and it doesn’t take Kreskin to figure out what’s going to be on many of those folks minds. For … just what, exactly? What did they hope to gain? I think they shut down the EC vote tally by about four hours, sure. But they also put a little fear into the Republicans and just who they were supporting. Some of the fact-challenged in Congress had planned to contest up to ten states. But the Senators backed off a bit, and only Arizona and Pennsylvania were taken to conference. And McConnell didn’t even allow discussion.But at least some of the would-be Insurrectionists had far darker plans. There’s no proof yet that Trump was aware, but as we’ll see, there had been organization on-line not simply storm the Capitol, but to take prisoners and perhaps even run mock “trials.” That’s the kind of thing being investigated by the FBI at this very moment. More to follow, I’m sure.Anyway, once they decided it was a march, Trump was tweeting videos promoting it a couple of times a day for at least a week. I guess we may never know just when Trump knew that he’d be calling for a march to the Capitol, but well before the event began. At He certainly knew he’d be calling for a march by the time he started getting the graphics done. He had been tweeting for at least a month and talking to the MAGAs and anyone else who would listen, telling them to come to Washington on the 6th, telling all who would listen “Be there. Will be Wild”.It’s also curious that, while they were saying “march” all this time, the permit granted by the Parks Department was for a rally at the Ellipse, only. They did not have permission for a march, and they did not have permission to be anywhere near the Capitol building or grounds. Nor could they have been granted that permission, since, of course, the Capitol building was a closed, secure environment that day. Not open to the public.He had a speaking platform set up for the rally on the Ellipse, a 52-acre park between the White House and the Washington Monument, roughly 2 miles from the Capitol building. This was a fairly elaborate setup, not something they tossed together. Yeah, that’s the White House in the background… you’re looking at it across the South Lawn.Obviously it had been planned as a march for enough time to get all the artwork printed up. But make no mistake, this was Trump’s event. He was there in person, behind his UL 752 Level 8 glass shield (well, hey, would you trust these guys?), and gave his typical rally speech. He aired his grievances, the utter unfairness of it all (woe is me!) He railed on about Mike Pence not doing his bidding (and, of course, breaking his oath to the Constitution, but nothing but Trump matters to Trump). He threatened Congresspeople who also might not do his bidding. He repeated his usual lies: the timely ones, requests from the audience, his Greatest Hits, and of course, more unfairness.In usual Trump rally style, Uday was there, along with most of the regulars from Trump’s Wack-Pack. Uday proceeded to complain about transgender athletes — not exactly the message of the day — and to threaten to “primary” Republican Congressfolk who didn’t participate in Trump’s coup d’etat attempt.Junior’s girlfriend, “Screaming” Kimberly Guilfoyle was there — she’s a standard member of the Trump Wack-Pack.Qusay was there too. He said pretty much the same things as his brother, extorting Congress with threats of primary challenges or something like that. It took me ages to find a photo of this guy — he rarely gets much press coverage, almost as if he’s redundant. But oddly enough, the Trumps could stick around and cause damage. Donald Trump has brought in nearly $500 million in money to “defend the election” and, while very little was actually spent on legal challenges, and about 1/4 went to the RNC, the vast bulk of the money went to Trump’s Leadership PAC. Trump can spend that almost any way he likes, including in support of other campaigns. So it’s a credible threat… not that extortion isn’t wrong even if the threat is empty.Qusay’s wife (unlike his brother, he hasn’t dumped his wife yet) was there… I’m not sure she’s a regular member of Trump’s Wack-Pack, but, as I’m trying to illustrate here, this was as big as any standard Trump rally. They apparently want her to run for the Senate in South Carolina…. is carpetbagging still a thing?As usual these days, Crazy Rudy Giuliani got to speak for awhile, and went even further, saying about Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, "If we’re wrong, we will be made fools of. But if we’re right, a lot of them will go to jail. So let’s have trial by combat.” I guess some of the MAGAs took that to heart.None of the printed materials or graphics I found said anything about where the march was going, though you could kind of figure they weren’t just going to the Smithsonian for a little education. Trump was the figurehead, and he made it a march on the Capitol. Trump spoke, calling the legitimate outcome of the election “this egregious assault on our democracy.” He continued: “After this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you. We're going to walk down to the Capitol. We are going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we are probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them — because you will never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.” And “If you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore.”So we have a standard Trump rally, the complete cast of Trump Wack-Pack speakers, funding by a bunch of Trump allies… so this is a Trump event, correct? I mean, unless there was a child in a cage or high ranking political official being bribed on-stage, you couldn’t get much Trumpier. Of course, after a complete clusterfuck like the way this rally/march turned out, you naturally find all of the cockroaches involved scrambling as fast as they can once the lights are on.The Trump Campaign’s official statement: they “did not organize, operate or finance the event.” No campaign staff members were involved in the organization or operation of the rally, according to the statement. It said that if any former employees or independent contractors for the campaign took part, “they did not do so at the direction of the Trump campaign.” Hmmm… any time Trump people say a thing mostly didn’t happen, you’re being told that it did happen…. so who might those people be?Megan Powers, the Director of Operations for the Trump Campaign as of January 2021 was also listed as one of the Operations Managers on the permit for the January 6 rally. The paperwork was, of course, for a rally at the Ellipse, not for a march to the Capitol, despite the wording on all of the printed literature.Carolyn Wren, who was paid $20,000/month as National Finance Consultant for Trump Victory (a joint fundraising platform between the Trump Campaign and the RNC) was listed as a VIP Advisor on the rally permit. After the insurrection, Wren locked her Twitter account, blocked reporters, and otherwise scrambled to clean her online profile of tweets and post promoting the rally.Maggie Mulvaney, niece of former Trump aide and then special envoy to Northern Ireland Mick Mulvaney, was paid $2,500 per week by the Trump Campaign as Director of Finance Operations, was listed on the rally permit as the VIP Lead. Mick Mulvaney quit his post a day after the insurrection.Trump allies Roger Stone, Stephen Bannon, and disgraced former Lt. General Michael Flynn participated in multiple events promoting the January 6th rally as a “Stop the Steal” event. Flynn and Stone had both been recently pardoned by Trump. Trump was also known to have met several times with Flynn over the same time period, with Flynn suggesting the use of Martial Law and the Military to overthrow the will of the people in the 2020 election.Flynn, specifically, had told Trump followers at rallies since mid-December that they would “need to be fearless as Americans,” that they had reached a “crucible moment .. there has to be sacrifice,” and “We’re in a battle … for the heart and soul of the country. We will win.”Mike Lindell, the “My Pillow Guy” and, as mentioned, a sponsor of the rally, was known to regularly meet in-person with Trump. He met again with Trump after the insurrection, on January 11, apparently there, according to photos of the notes he was carrying, to persuade Trump to use Martial Law and the Military to stage a coup d’etat and keep himself in power. I think I’ll stick with my non-lumpy, non-fascist memory foam pillow!Tim Unes, president of the company Event Strategies, was the rally’s Stage Manager. He’s the same guy the Trump Campaign has used for rallies, earning $1.2 million in 2020 for similar services at “officially Trump” Trump rallies. Another Event Strategies employee, Justin Caporale, was listed as Project Manager for the ralloy. He had also been a top aide for Melania Trump, paid $3,750/week through most of 2020.Kimberly Fletcher is president of Moms for America, another sponsor of the rally. She hadn’t been informed of the depth of Trump’s involvement until January 1, and still wasn’t prepared. She was quoted: "When I got there and I saw the size of the stage and everything, I'm like, 'Wow, we couldn't possibly have afforded that.’ It was a big stage. It was a very professional stage. I don't know who was in the background or who put it together or anything."Hanna Salem, three-year senior White House press aide responsible for “executing the media strategy for President Trump’s most high-profile events” was the rally’s Operations Manager for Logistics and Communications.In short, there’s no discernable difference between this rally and any normal Trump campaign rally of the past: same sponsors, same people. You sort of have to wonder, if this was just a rally that got out of control, why this was run pretty exactly the same as any other Trump Campaign rally other than it being directly run on paper by the Trump Campaign. Did the Trump Campaign just take possession of an already-planned rally? Well, that’s possible, but following the information trail, Trump himself had been involved in this rally since at least early December. And it had always been on the “TrumpMarch” schedule. Or was it just a handy way of throwing in a little on-paper distance based on what they had in mind for the day?Trump, of course, lied about actually going with them in person. But he did continue with tweets to the crowd. He continued to egg them on, to praise them.. in fact, that’s a big part of why Trump’s Twitter account was blocks — he was an active participant in the Insurrection, even if he didn’t actually go into the Capitol himself.Also, this obviously didn’t happen in a vacuum. Trump had been building resentment in these people for two months, claiming every day that there was election fraud, etc. Trump spread wild Qanon-sourced conspiracy theories about voting machines… in fact, throughout 2020, Donald J. Trump was the primary spreader of conspiracy theories in the United States (and you though he just spread COVID-19!) Many of them came expecting action because they had been told to fight back, told to never give up, told their country was being stolen, told it would “get wild,” by Trump, for 64 straight days! Trump reads the backwaters of the Internet where the conspiracy theorists hang out. He hears them on Twitter, etc. I believe he knew exactly what would happen, and that’s just what he wanted.Trump loaded the gun, pointed the gun, and pulled the trigger. No, he wasn’t the bullet. But he did foment the first Insurrection in the USA in modern times. A straight-up act of domestic terrorism. At least five people dead: one insurrectionist shot, one trampled by the crowd, two died of medical problems, and one Capitol Policeman, hit by the terrorists with a fire extinguisher, died from his injuries on Thursday Night.Multiple reports tell us that Trump enjoyed the invasion of the Capitol. Well before being told by his lawyers to ask the insurrectionists to leave, Trump had told Lindsey Graham “they’re allies.”Here’s noted wack-a-doodle Jacob Chansley (aka Jake Angeli) and a bunch of others in the Capitol building. The self-described “Qanon Shaman” turned himself into the FBI in the week following the siege, telling the agent that he and other “patriots” had come from Arizona at the request of the President that all “patriots” come to D.C. on January 6th. He had left a threatening note to Mike Pence, and admitted to authorities that he had planned “to capture and assassinate elected officials.” Chansley had been kicked out of the Navy fifteen years ago for refusing to get an anthrax vaccine, and apparently believes he’s an alien. Yes, authorities suspect mental illness and drug use, but as comical as the guy looks, he’s dangerous. So far, a grand jury has charged this numbnut with civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, demonstrating in a Capitol building, entering and remaining in a restricted building, and violent entry and disorderly conduct in a restricted building. There could be more on the way.And this is the type of guy who responded to Trump’s call to Washington. Trump knew this. He knew who he was calling to DC. People well inside the bubble of conspiracy theories, consuming a steady mental diet of Trump’s lies and other craziness for years now. They’re not contemplating their future, but perhaps they ought to be. Last summer, Trump signed an executive order that makes this sort of thing punishable by up to ten years in Federal Prison. These guys apparently want to be identified and arrested. Either that or the insurrectionists are living in a pre-COVID, pre-cameras-everywhere world of their own imaginations. Because these no mask guys are rapidly being identified, their social media profiles analyzed, and charges are being drawn up, at the DC level, but probably also the Federal level.This being the 21st Century and most Americans just not all that okay with an armed insurrection in the Capitol, the magical powers of crowdsourcing have been working to dox as many of these terrorists as possible. There’s an on-going project on Instagram, homegrownterrorists, which is helping with this doxing effort. And you can bet the FBI and other law enforcement agencies are all over this as well. It’s been reported that they were granted broad social media access for investigating these crimes.Trump later put out a video message telling the insurrectionists that “we love you, you’re very special”… it was fairly quickly pulled from Twitter, along with other messages in support of the terrorists, then Facebook, and Trump’s social media accounts were locked down. Sadly, well after all the damage had been done.I do have some lingering questions. You should too. For one, where was the National Guard in all of this? Okay, they did show up, but of course, they have to be invited, they can’t just look out, see an insurrection, and decide to drop and by for a closer look. Trump was too busy supporting the MAGAs online to get involved with protecting Congress. In fact, the tweet cloud around this, which was already made available to the authorities, along with Facebook, Instagram, and other social media, might be pretty damning, not just for Trump but all involved.It’s also clear that many of these MAGAs came quite prepared: guns, zip-ties, other items they could and did use as weapons. They also seemed to have a good understanding of the layout of the Capitol. They found prominent officials’ offices, even those not well market. Heck, they even assembled a gallows outside of the Capitol, apparently where at least some of them had hoped to hang Mike Pence. Capitol assault a more sinister attack than first appeared.It was Pence who called in the Guard, and it apparently took a little while, as they weren’t standing ready waiting for the call. Why not? Again, it’s awfully hard to fight back terrorists when your leader is actually on their side.And what happened to the DC Capitol Police? They were posted on-site, they were the go-to first responders anyway. And yet, there are videos of them opening gates for the crowds, taking selfies with them, etc. It’s a well known fact that the overwhelming instances of terrorism in the USA is by far right groups. It’s well known that Trump’s very popular with far right groups, and people often show up to his rallies carrying weapons. There were dozens of articles in news journals warning of the likelihood of violence among this crowd. 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