My girlfriend asked me to write a piece titled Jabulani, so here we are. And I have to publish it in 30 minutes. Vamos.  World cup season is upon us and what a wonderful time of the year it is. The fact that it’s hosted in North America this year is also really cool because […]

5:58am.  It was dark outside, the house was quiet, and I had somehow managed to wake up two minutes before my alarm.  A 3pm start in India meant an early wake up time for me. I figured that a 6am alarm would allow me to catch the last hour of the game, a fair compromise […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]