Engineer / Designer / Founder. YC alum. Living in San Francisco.
I've been rabbit-holing into Supply Chain Security over the last couple of months. After speaking to tens of security leaders and trying almost all existing products on the market, I'm convinced that the tools haven't evolved much since the early movers in the space — most of the fast-followers are largely trying to play catch-up.
I recently came across Walter Isaacson on Lex Fridman's podcast talking about Elon Musk's work ethic. Isaacson says that Musk is able to focus sequentially on many different things in a day, and he gives his 100% attention to each task at hand regardless of the number of other things he has to do that day.
Three principles that help me write cold emails that convert.
It's common knowledge among startup founders that everyone is putting out fires all the time. Even if a startup seems to be doing extremely well from the outside, it's highly probable that the founder is battling several problems all at once.
When you're doing some creative, you'd be better off shipping the first draft as quickly as possible.
How to seek excellence when working in a team.
A guide to delightful product design with magic tricks.
What making a ton of bad hiring mistakes has taught me about building teams.
A story of how GitHub embraced the free tier and feature gating, and how everyone else might need to do the same.
Looking for the truth, and finding it.
Falling in love hardly ever saves a company.
How breaking away from extremities opens up immense possibilities.
I have a life update.
I’ve come to visit my parents in Purnea after quite a while, and at a time when there are absolutely no festivities around — in my family or otherwise. This has been very relaxing for me since there had been something or the other going on every time I’ve been here in the past three years.
A high-order metric for measuring startup success.
I had been a very ambitious kid, often attracted by shiny things that looked tempting from the distance. My mother recounts numerous stories from my childhood that make me realise that I have always wanted to do everything. Even as a kid.
It doesn’t have to be someone else though.
I pick up one of the books from the mini-library I’ve put together on my desk. Hemingway it is for tonight. No, let me finish that Murakami first.
It’s time we get rid of the floppy disk of hiring.
Where do you go when there’s nowhere else to go?
How an early 20th-century French philosopher’s ideas can help us build better businesses.
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. — Jean Racine
And how it helps me with what I do.
Yesterday, I was reading an article and I came across this quote: