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Problems of abundance: socks, TikToks, and pet rocks

Feb 21, 2022 | 2 min read

Humans are awesome. We're these less-furry apes that have made this floating rock our bitch. We've turned the blue water, green plants, and brown rocks into skyscrapers, airplanes, WiFi, and ...

Assume you're going to lose

Feb 4, 2022 | 1 min read

I've changed my mind. Or more accurately, refined it. "Assuming you're going to win" is a decent heuristic for determining what games you want to play, because you ask yourself: ...

Assume you're going to win

Aug 23, 2021 | 1 min read

Read an awesome blog post from swyx about meta-creators, which really got me thinking. With the proliferation of tech twitter, comes a whole host of distractions that engineer/builder/founder ...

Career

Unintuitive Tips for Engineering Internships

Apr 6, 2021 | 4 min read

There’s so much pressure for undergrad computer science students to land an internship. So there’s a lot of advice on how to get them. Optimize your resume. Get ...

We should be working on this, now

Nov 4, 2020 | 2 min read

Last year I took a course at Rice called Ethics and Accountability in Computer Science. As you might guess, it was a discussion-based class covering the intersection between sociology/philosophy ...

Career

4 Years of Job Search in Numbers

Oct 28, 2020 | 5 min read

I was inspired by this Reddit post about visualizing the internship search. So as I graduate next semester, I thought it would be cool to look back on the data ...

How to not give a fuck

Aug 26, 2020 | 4 min read

I’m 21 as of 3 weeks ago. I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’ve spent a huge chunk of my life (especially during my late teens) ...

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