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Notes On Founding A Startup To My Future Self
This post is addressed to my future self, who (hopefully) would found a startup of his own someday. This is my last week at Saleswhale and I would like to pack as much wisdom into this post from my experiences there and from the wonderful people that I have talked to. It is a very personal post for me and it speaks straight from my heart. To be honest, I teared up a few times while writing this. I hope you will feel the sincerity in my words, and I hope it will inspire you.
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Leveraging The Power Law
It was three years ago that I was introduced the concept of the "power law" in Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One. Thiel states that "We don't live in a normal world, we live under a power law. Exponential equations describe severely unequal distributions". This, in effect, is very similar to the 80/20 rule that I discussed in my previous post, and observations of such a distribution can be found ranging from income distributions to the fact that the best venture capital fund investments grow to a value that eclipses the rest of their portfolios combined.
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Lessons From Saleswhale About Startup Culture
08 July marks 8 months since I started working in Saleswhale (08 November 2017), and also the last month that I will be here before enrolling in college. It is an opportune time to look back and reflect on my growth as a software engineer and to collate the lessons that I have learned so that I may remember them in my future endeavors. Actually, given the stark contrast between academia and industry, I am quite certain that I will gradually lose sense of the things that I learned, especially those regarding working in teams and software engineering best practices.
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Ruthless Prioritization Is The Right Way To Manage Your Time
Last week I had the good fortune of having a one-on-one session with Gabriel, the CEO of Saleswhale. As I rarely have the chance to go on a one-on-one with Gabriel I decided to ask him questions more pertinent to his role as a CEO. This has been something that I have been very curious to learn more about after my previous one-on-one with Ethan, who shared with me his experiences, challenges, and many thoughts as the CTO. In this post, I will share what I feel is probably the most important takeaway for me during the session with Gabriel.
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Creating A Deploy Script For Jekyll With Rsync
Static site generators like Jekyll makes it easy to write and build static websites. However, this still comes with the problem of a suitable deployment method. I will share about my thought process and the best approach I found for tackling this problem.
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Welcome To My Blog
It has been a while since I had intended to start my own technical blog. The idea began seriously floating in my mind after my one-on-one with my senior colleague Javier in Saleswhale. Starting a technical blog was one of the valuable pieces of advice that he gave to me, and it was something that he regretted not doing earlier.