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4 Ways International Students Can Stand Out

International students often sell themselves short when looking for jobs in the USA. They focus on the costs of having to get sponsored, the language barrier, and other reasons that ultimately have a negative impact on their job search.  However, in my experience, the positives that the right international students can bring to the table […]

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Growth

A few years ago, I read a (pretty mediocre) book that happened to have an amazing quote. It went something like this: “We don’t grow to survive; we survive to grow.” I agree with this quote. There is nothing quite like looking back and seeing how much progress you’ve made at something that you used […]

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How to get a Job as an International Student in the USA

Everything you need to know about getting a job in the USA on an F1 Visa.

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Speed > Accuracy

In a perfect world, you’d be able to execute with both speed and accuracy. But this is rare. Perfect information is very difficult (impossible?) to have, so ultimately you have to make decisions without knowing all factors. At school, when we have to study for exams, the most academically oriented students (i.e the nerds, those […]

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Have you made progress?

A quick heuristic that you can use to measure your progress in a certain area is to gauge what type of questions you’re asking, and to see whether they have changed over time. For example, if you set out to learn to code two years ago, an obvious question you may have asked yourself is […]

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High Agency

Ryan Holiday writes the following: “The mathematician and economist Eric Weinstein, has a category of individual he defines as a “high agency person.” As Eric would elaborate on Tim Ferriss’s podcast: “When you’re told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind, how […]

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On Rules

I think that people (myself included) impose too many artificial rules on themselves. But one of the most important things to realize in life is that, really, there are no rules.  Often, the reason we do X is because everyone else is doing X. And since everyone else is doing X, we take it that […]

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On Reading

Taking a little break from reading might not be the worst thing in the world.

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The Chamber of Secrets

A story about a bathroom, my two friends, and acetone.

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Amazon’s Alexa Smart Home Services: Thoughts & Analysis

I think that Voice Technology is going to revolutionize many industries in the near future. In this post, I share some insights in regards to where I think the Alexa Smart Home team might find some interesting, new opportunities and in what industries it ought to focus its efforts in terms of business development.

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