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 ...
Thoughts Stop reinventing the wheel Aug 19, 2021 | 1 min read Just migrated my blog to Ghost. I held off for a long time, because the asshole, DIY, egotistic developer in me would never let myself use something I didn't build ...
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 ...
New Years Dec 31, 2020 | 2 min read Goals define us.An NBA player wants to win basketball games. A chef aims to make good food. A cop tries to catch bad guys. A dirty cop might not. ...
Happiness Mountain Climbers and Fishermen Nov 4, 2020 | 3 min read For those who haven’t read Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, it’s about a father and a son who travel across the US on ...
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 ...
Picasso's Napkin, Pareto Principle, and Side Projects Oct 26, 2020 | 4 min read Picasso was having a drink in a restaurant – probably a traditional French pavement cafe. An admirer recognised him and exclaimed “Oh my goodness, are you the famous Pablo Picasso?” the ...
Love Yourz Oct 16, 2020 | 1 min read No such thing as a life that's better than yours No such thing as a life that's better than yours (Love yours) No such thing as a life that's better ...
The Wizard of Oz Technique Oct 5, 2020 | 5 min read In L.F. Baum’s Wizard of Oz, the Wizard fools everyone by creating a vision of himself to look powerful. He does this by using a set of controls ...
Building MVP at RiceApps Oct 1, 2020 | 3 min read This is adapted from a talk that I gave in an app development club at Rice University called RiceApps. We build software for various clients around the Houston area. And ...
Hammers and Nails Sep 27, 2020 | 1 min read When you have a hammer everything looks like a nail - Abraham MaslowSchool gives us homework, and they give us the same hammer and nail that they’ve been handing ...
Elon's approach to competition Sep 16, 2020 | 1 min read I think what strikes me the most about Elon Musk’s philosophy is not really his work ethic, his tenacity, or his perseverance. These qualities of his are of course ...
Mistakes building My Desk Tour Sep 16, 2020 | 4 min read As I wrote about in an earlier post, I built a website this summer about desk setups called mydesktour.com. That post was mainly about the idea, but I want ...
Why Blog? Sep 10, 2020 | 1 min read I’m a college student. Kids my age should be on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter or whatever the hell else. But I’m going to commit myself to writing ...
The idea behind My Desk Tour Sep 1, 2020 | 1 min read I’ve been working on a new project the past few months. It’s called “My Desk Tour”, and it’s live at mydesktour.com. It’s pretty much r/ ...
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) ...
Philosophy Feeling lost Aug 20, 2020 | 2 min read I’ve been having a series of what I would call “quarter-life crises” these past few months. It’s felt pretty shitty. And this is only after getting the job ...
Experimentation With Sentiment Analysis Techniques Jun 22, 2019 | 10 min read This was a little project a good friend and I had worked on during our college years. The goal was to see if our genius little sophomore CS undergrad minds ...
