A Case for Capitalism
Now that we have a socialist mayor running the financial capital of the world, it seems like a good time to remind ourselves why free markets actually work. You wouldn’t have to explain this to my parents’ generation that grew…
Category Musings
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 down my process – as one does. At its core, naming is essentially a recommendation system problem: picking the most relevant…
Learning to Unlearn
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 beat human world champion at the game of Go. The initial versions of…
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 you’ll see more flaming Teslas than cat memes. European sales are down 60%, showrooms are protest zones, and with a $700B…
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 half a decade, to Instagram Stories.“Same company” I thought, “should be a breeze, right?” Turns out, at Meta’s scale, this kind…
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 people cross the street. He’s not asking for anything in return, and people walking by can’t help but admire him. “What…
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 in the future, it explores a world where people are incorporated at birth and strive to earn back a majority share…
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 floor‘ — improving baseline living standards of masses — vs ‘raising the ceiling‘ — pushing the boundaries, often reserved for the…
Metas journey to Threads
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…
Socializing your thoughts
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…