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Story: Flying to germany during a pandemic

When faced with a daunting task, rather than trying to do the whole thing in one go, just try to get a little closer with each chance.

A sticky lesson from "Never split the difference".

That time I over-engineered like crazy during an internship in university.

The embarrassing time I was a bad salesman

Ultimately you need to watch out for yourself

Even if people know the plot, they appreciate the way you tell the story

An internship where I left a lot on the table

A positive experience I had receiving feedback from a mentor

The time I got a soft job offer via Instagram

My "What they don't tell you about demand paging" blog post completely flopped when I posted it on twitter and hacker news. It only reached the success it did because I then cold emailed Dan Luu and Bruce Dawson. Dan shared it to hacker news under his account (I never mentioned I posted it there already), and it took off from there (I believe because his account has must higher ranki...

Podcasting is so easy for me because it's not a totally new project; it's a small branch for an existing project. I don't spend any creative energy on it because I only talk about things I've already written about, or ideas that come naturally to me.

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Traditional forms of capital include money, relationships, and health. There’s another I’ve discovered but never heard mentioned before: location capital. Location capital is how much experience you have with a physical place on Earth. For example, if you have a lot of New York City capital, you’re the one that knows all the cool restaurants and bars in NYC. Friends ask for recommendations for the...

Note to self. I write because: Improved clarity of thought Archive of thought Improves writing skills In addition, I write  in public  because: It reinforces a mindset of speaking my mind in public (i.e. courage) Receive valuable feedback and external perspectives Build & maintain relationships — people can learn about me and keep up with what I’m up to Furthermore, I’ve found that it’s addict...

There are a few main reasons why we get busier as we get older: As you age, you increasingly lose free time towards dealing with “adulting” type of tasks: taxes, paying bills, taking your car to the shop, researching insurance alternatives We as age, we accumulate relationships. And while they have numerous benefits and make life worth living, they don’t come for free. They require time and energy...

Note to self: Remember: You are already enough just as you are, right here, right now. You don’t need to achieve or do anything.  1 Remember: The only competition in life — if you must think of it that way — is to know yourself as fully as possible, and act with maximum authenticity towards that truth. Remember: All things considered, you have it good — many around the world would kill to switch p...

This is a mindset I use to help with procrastination. It first came to me in my senior year on university when I needed to do lab reports. At that point, I had been doing lab reports for 8 years — ever since the start of high school. And throughout that whole time, they were always excruciating. But I realized that they were excruciating partly because I always waited until the days before the dea...

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