How to Name Your Child: A recommendation systems approach
Naming is a hard problem. I’m navigating this maze for the second time, so naturally I’ve decided to write…
Learning to Unlearn
What AlphaGo, Jiu-Jitsu, and My Own Stalled Efforts are Telling Me About Learning The Unexpected Master I recently came…
Betting on Tesla for next 10 years.
Wait, Seriously—Tesla? Tesla is trending these days — just not for the reasons investors like. Scroll through Twitter and…
The Long Game of Learning: Why Changing Jobs Feels Like Losing Half Your Brain
Losing 50% At the start of 2024, I switched teams within Meta — from Ads, where I’d spent over…
The Empathy Trap: Why Society Misjudges the Value of Work
We’re naturally drawn to acts of kindness we can see. Imagine a man at a busy intersection, helping elderly…
My 10 Books of 2023
Unincorporated Man: Fiction usually isn’t my go-to genre, but this book was a standout this year. Set 300 years…
Why Raise the Ceiling (vs Floor) of Human Potential?
Why should we pour billions into space exploration while millions starve on Earth? It’s a debate between ‘raising the…
Stargazing Through the Lens: A guide to shoot milky way
Capturing the Milky Way through your lens is undeniably one of life’s most amazing experiences. But even if you’re…
Metas journey to Threads
I joined Facebook as a software engineer in 2016, before Trump’s election, before Cambridge Analytica. It was, without a…
Socializing your thoughts
Its hard to believe how many politically charged conversations I’ve been part of in last 5 years where people…