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I think board games and I have a cosmic connection. Since I was in high school, in phases, I’ve gravitated towards board games, drifting through so many awful haircuts, spinning alongside relationships, living arrangements, and… Read more

I recently completed the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate offered by Coursera. I’ve taken a couple Google certifications in the past, and aimed to complete this quickly. Here’s what I did to supercharge my results.… Read more

I’d like to say that I had a grand plan, machinations and consulting experience leveraged into my first job. I’d love to tell an inspirational tale about how I raked my body over hot coals,… Read more

As I’m transitioning off of my current job, I started thinking about how I could be useful in the future. I know that the gist of one of Peter Thiel’s aphorisms is to take your… Read more

I want to live a fascinating life, and encourage others to do so as well. To that end, my blog will be used to facilitate the following. The three things I’m going to do on… Read more

The idea behind effective altruism is that whatever resources you devote towards charity should be effectively spent. If 80% of your contribution is spent on overhead, then the resources you’ve used to finance the cause… Read more

I’ve been working on this project for the Liberty Fund, which involves researching the founding fathers. There’s been two divergent attitudes I’ve heard when talking to people about this. First, that the founding fathers are… Read more

I read this fascinating book by Ed Stringham a while ago called Private Governance, which talked in detail about the importance of emergent order in anarchic, or situations without political authority. It’s a great read… Read more

So many people describe their first heartbreak as both crushing, yet also providing the motivation for them to improve themselves, to rise from the ashes. Rock bottom, or hitting the point of not recognizing oneself… Read more