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It’s Thursday evening, 11:30pm, and I am exhausted. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve done nothing extraordinary. I’ve commuted to work, done the work, gone to the gym, done the things that one does at the gym, showered, picked up groceries, cooked pasta, watched World Cup highlights, cleaned the dishes, put in my laundry, and finally […] The post I Hate Personal CRMs. I Might Need One. appeared first on…
My girlfriend asked me to write a piece titled Jabulani, so here we are. And I have to publish it in 30 minutes. Vamos. World cup season is upon us and what a wonderful time of the year it is. The fact that it’s hosted in North America this year is also really cool because […] The post Jabulani appeared first on Shikhar Sachdev .
5:58am. It was dark outside, the house was quiet, and I had somehow managed to wake up two minutes before my alarm. A 3pm start in India meant an early wake up time for me. I figured that a 6am alarm would allow me to catch the last hour of the game, a fair compromise […] The post The emotional slot machine of being a sports fan appeared first on Shikhar Sachdev .
International students often sell themselves short when looking for jobs in the USA. They focus on the costs of having to get sponsored, the language barrier, and other reasons that ultimately have a negative impact on their job search. However, in my experience, the positives that the right international students can bring to the table […] The post 4 Ways International Students Can Stand Out…
A few years ago, I read a (pretty mediocre) book that happened to have an amazing quote. It went something like this: “We don’t grow to survive; we survive to grow.” I agree with this quote. There is nothing quite like looking back and seeing how much progress you’ve made at something that you used […] The post Growth appeared first on Shikhar Sachdev .
Everything you need to know about getting a job in the USA on an F1 Visa. The post How to get a Job as an International Student in the USA appeared first on Shikhar Sachdev .
In a perfect world, you’d be able to execute with both speed and accuracy. But this is rare. Perfect information is very difficult (impossible?) to have, so ultimately you have to make decisions without knowing all factors. At school, when we have to study for exams, the most academically oriented students (i.e the nerds, those […] The post Speed > Accuracy appeared first on Shikhar Sachdev .
A quick heuristic that you can use to measure your progress in a certain area is to gauge what type of questions you’re asking, and to see whether they have changed over time. For example, if you set out to learn to code two years ago, an obvious question you may have asked yourself is […] The post Have you made progress? appeared first on Shikhar Sachdev .
Ryan Holiday writes the following: “The mathematician and economist Eric Weinstein, has a category of individual he defines as a “high agency person.” As Eric would elaborate on Tim Ferriss’s podcast: “When you’re told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind, how […] The post High Agency appeared first on Shikhar Sachdev…
I think that people (myself included) impose too many artificial rules on themselves. But one of the most important things to realize in life is that, really, there are no rules. Often, the reason we do X is because everyone else is doing X. And since everyone else is doing X, we take it that […] The post On Rules appeared first on Shikhar Sachdev .