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2020 update: moved to NYC. Currently doing product at a fashion retail company.

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Business (21)
RealTalk (20)
Startup (14)
Coding (11)
Tech (8)
Product (7)

✨ How to be a Great Person to Work With?

March 22, 2022 — 3 min read

improve your career and be an uncertainty killer

Failing Forward

February 23, 2022 — 2 min read

winning even as I fail, and generalist vs specialist

Biases and Fallacies

January 24, 2022 — 7 min read

are you good at reading people?

NFT overview

November 14, 2021 — 9 min read

hype?

All Roads Lead to Rome

November 02, 2021 — 4 min read

create your own playbook - don't get hung up on prevailing business wisdom

✨ Lessons Learned From BorrowMind MVP

June 08, 2021 — 6 min read

Post-Mortem

Distribution - the Winning Condition

May 29, 2021 — 3 min read

Two companies you might not have heard of

Work With Lucky People

February 06, 2021 — 1 min read

belief in luck is a self-fulfilling prophecy

6 Years in the Making - Story of Ben

January 24, 2021 — 1 min read

side hustle story series 1

Launching BorrowMind (prototype)

December 08, 2020 — 3 min read

how and why we are building a design review platform

2 Notes on User Feedback

October 16, 2020 — 2 min read

people don't know what they want, but they know their problems

✨ How to Build Wealth

October 07, 2020 — 6 min read

wisdom from Naval Ravikant

No problem space is forever solved

September 17, 2020 — 1 min read

new is always possible

Automation Project - when is my gym least crowded?

September 04, 2020 — 2 min read

web scraping with Puppeteer, NodeJS, AirTable

✨ My Best Cold Emails That Opened Doors

September 02, 2020 — 10 min read

people do read emails

Anything worth doing, is worth doing badly

August 12, 2020 — 1 min read

motivation and momentum

Overengineering

August 04, 2020 — 3 min read

if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail

GPT-3

July 27, 2020 — 2 min read

latest breakthrough in AI

Dumb Hacking vs Growth Hacking

July 21, 2020 — 3 min read

don't dumb hack

✨ Decision Making Learned from Poker

July 14, 2020 — 5 min read

how to make better decisions in life and business

Machine Learning 101

July 07, 2020 — 8 min read

your 10-minute guide

Elon Musk biography review

June 28, 2020 — 5 min read

the most important innovator of our time

New Javascript syntax learned

June 23, 2020 — 1 min read

user.favorite?.shoes?.brand

Writing is Thinking

June 17, 2020 — 1 min read

To write well is to think clearly

Always Day One

June 11, 2020 — 6 min read

reflections on Big Tech

deploying Node server to AWS

June 01, 2020 — 5 min read

more high than poker

Newsletters I follow

May 27, 2020 — 1 min read

what keep me informed and inspired

(e-)commerce

May 26, 2020 — 1 min read

new retail experience

✨ Applying for your dream job

May 21, 2020 — 7 min read

perspectives from an employer

Adding serverless Netlify/Lambda function

May 18, 2020 — 3 min read

all these just to get likes

Product-Zeitgeist-Fit (PZF)

May 10, 2020 — 5 min read

spirit of our times

the great Gatsby(JS)

May 06, 2020 — 3 min read

building this blog

JAMstack

May 05, 2020 — 3 min read

wtf is a JAMstack

No one gives a shit about you

May 02, 2020 — 1 min read

free yourself

ikigai

April 30, 2020 — 1 min read

is that a sushi?

ReactJS – a beginner’s discourse

April 15, 2020 — 4 min read

quick guide for newbies

Firebase - a starter's guide

April 10, 2020 — 3 min read

simple Firebase serverless implementation

Serverless

April 10, 2020 — 1 min read

what is a serverless architecture?

Favourite JS Syntax

March 28, 2020 — 1 min read

and some modern JS books

learning to code (finally)

March 20, 2020 — 4 min read

working on my first project

Success is not linear

December 21, 2019 — 1 min read

grind

Cost of Entry

December 13, 2019 — 1 min read

embarrassment is the cost of entry

Work

December 13, 2019 — 1 min read

some thoughts

Leisure

December 11, 2019 — 1 min read

freedom from the work needed to survive

It is not a race

December 10, 2019 — 1 min read

it doesn't matter

Shots

December 10, 2019 — 1 min read

it doesn’t matter how many shots you’ve missed.

Competitors and PR for Start-ups

September 16, 2014 — 4 min read

3 key lessons

Bullshitting vs Fake-It-Till-You-Make-It

August 29, 2014 — 4 min read

as a startup founder, you have only one job - sell

Luck

December 17, 2013 — 5 min read

luck in startup success

Shutting Down

December 04, 2013 — 2 min read

celebrate startup failure



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