Naming is a hard problem. I’m navigating this maze for the second time, so naturally I’ve decided to write down my process — as one does. At its core, naming is essentially a recommendation system problem: picking the most relevant…
What AlphaGo, Jiu-Jitsu, and My Own Stalled Efforts are Telling Me About Learning The Unexpected Master I recently came across an interesting interview with David Silver, who lead the AlphaGo team at Google DeepMind. Team that built groundbreaking AI which…
Wait, Seriously—Tesla? Tesla is trending these days — just not for the reasons investors like. Scroll through Twitter and you’ll see more flaming Teslas than cat memes. European sales are down 60%, showrooms are protest zones, and with a $700B…
Losing 50% At the start of 2024, I switched teams within Meta — from Ads, where I’d spent over half a decade, to Instagram Stories.“Same company” I thought, “should be a breeze, right?” Turns out, at Meta’s scale, this kind…
We’re naturally drawn to acts of kindness we can see. Imagine a man at a busy intersection, helping elderly people cross the street. He’s not asking for anything in return, and people walking by can’t help but admire him. “What…
Unincorporated Man: Fiction usually isn’t my go-to genre, but this book was a standout this year. Set 300 years in the future, it explores a world where people are incorporated at birth and strive to earn back a majority share…
Why should we pour billions into space exploration while millions starve on Earth? It’s a debate between ‘raising the floor‘ — improving baseline living standards of masses — vs ‘raising the ceiling‘ — pushing the boundaries, often reserved for the…
I joined Facebook as a software engineer in 2016, before Trump’s election, before Cambridge Analytica. It was, without a doubt, the best company to work for in the valley at that time. There was no negative press towards it; people…
Its hard to believe how many politically charged conversations I’ve been part of in last 5 years where people arguing have been 100% convinced that their favorite political party is right about EVERY social and economic issue. It’s common to…
I found the concept of acclemetization day quite fascinating. As you reach a higher elevation in the mountains, you have trouble breathing, you don’t feel like eating or drinking much. In order to acclimatize yourself, you climb about 1000ft on…