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One on Ones for Engineers
The One on One is the most important meeting of your career. Treat it as such. Until recently, I managed multiple engineering teams, and I've managed and helped hire hundreds of Software Engineers throughout my career. Also, before moving into management, I came up the ladder as an Individual Contributor
From Big Tech to Big Debt
TLDR: This is my story of how I used my big tech salary to set up an income stream before quitting to start something of my own and take big risk. I recently quit my cushy, high-paying job in big tech to do a startup. Before I quit, I took
Lessons growing on Twitter with a dormant account.
Despite having a dormant account for a decade, I got my first thousand followers on Twitter last month. In the eyes of the Twitter algorithm, a dormant account is WORSE than a brand new account. But, I turned it around; and I wanted to capture that while it's still fresh.
How to go from Zero to One making things on the Internet.
A lot of the advice out there on going from 1 to 100. Friends, Strangers, VCs, everyone wants to help when it's working. But how do you get something to work? How do you get to 1? An underrated thing about 2021 is that we can learn how to do
An Announcement: From UpHome to Nines
I am excited to announce that we have recently merged UpHome, a property management platform for single-family homes that my brother and I were working on, with Nines. Our vision for UpHome was to create a better living experience for home renters; Nines has a similar vision of helping people
Don't Part-Time Your Dreams
It's too hard to work at a big company and build a startup on nights and weekends. I built a lot of projects part-time. My brother would help me. After our day jobs ended, we worked on the things that mattered most to us—trying desperately to get traction with
Put the world in zugzwang
In 2008 I worked in a restaurant as a waiter. I had been in the restaurant business since at least 14 years old. By the age of 23, in 2008, I worked at Enzos Restaurant, one of the best authentic Italian restaurants in The Bronx at the time. I was
The meaning of your life?
I wasn't paying much attention to the existential question, chances are, neither are you. But half a year of creating forced me to stop wasting my attention and instead focus it on what's truly important to me. It turns out watching lots of Netflix, playing video games, scrolling away meaninglessly
How to get the Results
If I could tell you one thing that I learned this year, it would be to start. But that wouldn't be enough because I'd also need to tell you to keep going after you start. But you can't worry about that second part if you haven't even started yet, so
How to Stop Pretending
I am not a very good public speaker, but I get better each time I am forced to do it. "Man, Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself." -Miles DavisThe stuttering, shaky voice, the constant "um's," that's not me. If you and
