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Here are some of my blog posts I really like: How to ask advice? Sometimes you see tree for forest, and sometimes forest for trees One Search to Rule them all Org chart can be as important as the flow chart Everything you have heard about Japan is true How to write bad software and still make money Nassim Nicholas Taleb vs. Less Wrong

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May 13, 2021

What is our advantage against the big players?

This post was originally published at https://hargup.substack.com/p/what-is-our-advantage-against-the Our advantage is exactly that we are much smaller player. The only other people who are going after the market of consumer search are big players like Neeva and You.com. People running them are hotshots, they have decades of experience, millions and millions…

Startup

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What is our advantage against the big players?
What is our advantage against the big players?
Startup

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Apr 30, 2021

Brace yourself, scary times are here

What’s happening: The second wave of Covid is here, and it is really bad. Two people I knew are no more. Damn lot of friends have covid. Things have got super scary super quickly. Everyone please stay safe and take care. To help people find covid resources quickly, I launched…

Covid

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Brace yourself, scary times are here
Brace yourself, scary times are here
Covid

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Apr 18, 2021

Starting from the finish line

This post was originally published on substack https://hargup.substack.com/p/starting-from-the-finish-line This is an excerpt from my diary, where I am trying to come in terms with my own ambitions. When we were preparing for IIT JEE, there were these kids who you could feel were laughing at you for even thinking that…

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Starting from the finish line
Starting from the finish line

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Apr 10, 2021

Sometimes you see forest for trees, and sometimes trees for forest

Ben Horowitz said Hire on strengths, rather than lack of weakness. It is the job of the org to limit the downsides of people’s weakness, and amplify their strengths. I’ll talk about mine. I am extremely flexible, I can quickly reorient myself for a situation I have never seen or…

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Sometimes you see forest for trees, and sometimes trees for forest
Sometimes you see forest for trees, and sometimes trees for forest

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Apr 1, 2021

How to ask for advise?

This is guide to myself about asking advise. Aim: You want to get accurate picture of a particular situtation might play out. So ask for that. Good example advise email Dear Nole Ksum, I am … <Describe context> This is how I think things will play out …. Do you…

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How to ask for advise?
How to ask for advise?

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Jul 19, 2020

Org chart can be as important as the flow chart

At my first job, I worked at a huge investment bank. While I was there, the managing director (MD) of my team left the firm. I was curious and asked my manager how the firm decided on the new boss? The answer surprised me. When a new boss gets appointed…

Technology

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Org chart is as important as flow chart
Org chart is as important as flow chart
Technology

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Jul 13, 2020

Electricity at last

4th April, 2014 There were a bunch of people sitting on the mattress, playing cards. They were having a good old laugh. Even when they were not drinking from the glass. But that wasn’t a scene that would last. Someone cried “Electricity at last”, “I’ll watch a episode of Game of Thrones with a blast.” Everyone took a breath fast. Went into to their rooms to see the cast.

People

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Electricity at last
Electricity at last
People

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May 23, 2020

Interview: Everything you have heard about Japan is True!

Or Life, Food and Work for an Indian in Japan Japan is a curious place for most of us. We have heard so many stories about Japan, how it is ridiculously clean, how people are extremely polite, how there is almost no crime. I wanted to know what it is like to actually work and live there, especially as an…

Japan

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Everything you have heard about Japan is True
Everything you have heard about Japan is True
Japan

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Aug 8, 2018

Book Review: The Three-Body Problem

Aim of a book is review is get you excited enough about a book to make you read it, but often I only end up saying “this book was a really interesting” or make it “really really interesting” but that’s not very interesting so let me try something else [without…

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Book Review: The Three-Body Problem
Book Review: The Three-Body Problem

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