Today, I came across some of the handwritten notes from my last semester in college. The photos below are only a tiny fraction of the total amount. I must have written hundreds of pages of math notes throughout my 3-year undergraduate degree. There were some long nights when I was deep in exam revision, writing page after page of stochastic calculus and advanced statistics, wondering if all this effort would be for nothing, when all I wanted to do at the time was coding. ...
Recently, Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe where I’m currently working at, officially announced stepping down from his role after 18 years. During the Employee Meeting following that news, he mentioned the reason behind this decision: he felt like it was the right time for him to reinvent himself. Of course, there are many practical deliberations behind such a massive-scale decision, but I believe he spoke from his heart that the more personal reason behind it all is this notion of reinvention. This left a strong impression on me, and I couldn’t help but think about it in the context of my career. ...
Hi there, welcome to my little corner on the internet. For the longest time, I’ve always had a deep appreciation for people who are not only smart (the definition of “smart” is multifaceted here), but also generous enough to synthesize and share their learnings to the world. Blog posts, Youtube channels, GitHub repos, online courses, books, kind strangers on the internet, etc. - these are all the resources that have helped me go from someone who was stuck with having to complete a bachelor degree that did not interest them in the slightest bit, to someone who is finally in a place where they have the privilege of feeling overwhelmed by the amount of possibilities they have access to every single day. ...