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Or: Why can't you just merge my ten-line PR already? I maintain over 200 open source projects. Apparently (this is news to me) I am ranked in the top 200 GitHub users by followers, and there are 18,000 forks and 42,000 stars across my repos. On an average day, I see between 50-100 emails across my repositories for…
Start your freelance business on the right foot by avoiding common mistakes that you will hold you back from victory.
“I’m going to be 29 anyways, so I might as well be 29 with a Master’s.” — me 5 years ago debating whether I should take classes On June 5, 2017, I started taking classes at Tufts University while working full time. On January 4, 2022, I submitted the final draft of my Master’s thesis. Much like my past self had hoped…
My parents don't understand what I do as a quant, so I wrote this to help explain to them. This post goes into the basics of power pricing and the electricity market.
Being on the lookout for recruiting new students for my new research group , I wanted to distil some of my observations into textual form. This post deals with my impression that academia is doing a disservice to ‘T-shaped persons,’ i.e. persons combining deep expertise in one or more fields with an ability to…
Disclaimer: I did have to sign a NDA, so I can't go too in depth on certain things. But I'll do my best to capture the essence of it and my…
I'm used to getting asked how many employees work at my startup. For most people, it's a quick way to assess a startup's success. Supposedly, the bigger, the better. But does it really reflect success?
Even if every technology jockeying for a spot under the 'web3' banner evolves beyond proof-of-work blockchains, these systems will still not be part of the web because they designed not to be. 'web3' ain't the web, and VCs talking their own book don't get the last word, no matter how much dirty money they throw at it.
In which the author expostulates on his odd notions about sports, music, and life
Reflections on working at Amazon, the interview process, the organizational structure, and why it was not an ideal fit for me (but might be for you).
A few months ago, exhausted by a constant stream of people perennially disappointed about reward structures at companies, I made what…
Mentors should operate at three levels: goals, situations, and skills.
How we built an engineering culture based on trust that allows us to move incredibly fast without requiring code reviews.
Over the past few years, I’ve interviewed with a dozen or so companies and have completed ~50 or so individual algorithm problems. I’m frequently given feedback that I did a great job at the algorithms problem. In this post, I’m going to share how exactly I approach algorithm problems. Thought Process A guiding…
2021 was not too kind to me. I discovered that I not only have OCD but OCPD, a personality disorder. If you’ve ever had a conversation with me where I just couldn’t let something go because it was wrong or incorrect and it bothered me, now you know why. I have, for better or worse, extremely high standards for…
