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Some Fun Heroscape Variants

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 obsessions. A new one is Heroscape, which I’ve been playing for the last few months and I love it. RatherContinue reading “Some Fun Heroscape Variants”

How I managed to complete a 6(+) month data science certification in 3 weeks

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. Happy learning!

7 Success Tips For College

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, calling out to THOOM, which ultimately prepared me for starting my career as a project manager. I’d say all theseContinue reading “7 Success Tips For College”

From Weak to Peak: Building the Habit of Going to The Gym

Over the past year and a half, I’ve experimented a lot with workout routines in an effort to cut weight and look jacked. It took me a while to get into the swing of things. Initially, the wind isn’t at your back. The combination of feeling ‘small’, being unathletic, the time commitment, and the fear ofContinue reading “From Weak to Peak: Building the Habit of Going to The Gym”

Newest Research Obsession

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 ten year goals, and interrogate why you can’t complete them in six months. I’m interested in being in the executiveContinue reading “Newest Research Obsession”

My Plan

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 this blog:

In Favor Of Prioritization

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 you care about are wasted. You should aim to get the most bang for your buck. You’d chastise yourself ifContinue reading “In Favor Of Prioritization”

Calibrating Confidence

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 basically gods personified. Second, that the founding fathers are the progenitors of original sin. I don’t typically see people beContinue reading “Calibrating Confidence”

Social Clubs & Norms

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 for people interested in economics, and challenges the prevailing view that order and rules come from an ex machina styleContinue reading “Social Clubs & Norms”

The Duality of Loss

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 is the embodiment of patheticness, of failure, yet it provides the toolkit, or the motivation to improve. It would seemContinue reading “The Duality of Loss”