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“Mediocre people don’t etch despair into their souls, they convince themselves that the correct course is to not give up” I’ve failed a lot in the past 6 months. I’ve had to switch careers. Give up on an essay I’ve been trying to write for months. Abandon my PR goals in the gym. Discard my…
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This blog was inspired by a video by Innuendo Studios Justice does not exist as a machine I’ve noticed that there is an unspoken idea across our society that justice is a system that must be followed. The belief in this idea is that, when the system of justice is followed, we can arrive at…
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I’m fascinated by choices that bifurcate your life. The choices that if you pursue them, are either incredibly rewarding or incredibly damaging. These are often choices that have an incredibly long tail of potential outcomes. We intuitively know quite a few of them: These choices are in stark contrast to other professions which have a…
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“Winners are defined by their capacity for change” Personal identity is a fraudulent concept; it is merely a short cut that our brain uses to make decisions quickly. You buy protein bars at gas stations because you’re healthy. You wear conference t-shirts because you don’t care about fashion. You order whiskey every time you go…
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“Self-deprecating humor is really only funny to the people comfortable deprecating you and uncomfortable to everyone else” – Red (Overly Sarcastic Productions) Very recently I was asking to give a pitch on my company. I gave a rundown of my background in biomedical engineering, to running Trulioo’s Fraud/ML product line and started an AI company.…
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“Bad companies are all alike; every Good company is Good in its own way” – Peter Thiel This essay is based on two ideas: I had this idea a long time ago for picking good PhD topics. As I can no longer call myself a researcher, I’ve shifted the focus to businesses. Regardless, I’m quite…
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“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge” – Winston Churchill The Oxford Dictionary defines complexity as the state or quality of being intricate or complicated. Much like cliche high school valedictorians, I’ve found that the best way to understand the nuance around this point is to start with the dictionary definition. There is an understanding in the…
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Focus on what makes your beer taste better. – Jeff Bezos Disclaimer: This blog post was written by someone whose company is hosted entirely on AWS Beer and Startups In 2008, Bezos told the YC batch a story of European Breweries in the 20th Century and electricity consumption. Breweries found that they were significantly more…
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“A drunk man will find his way home, but a drunk bird may get lost forever” – Shizuo Kakutani Random Walks A Random walk is a path which consists of a series of random steps on a mathematical space. This can be imagined on a gridded plane with vertex being possible destinations. An entity in…
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Siddarth Raghuvanshi 