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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…