In software development, we have Conway’s Law, which says, you ship your organization. That is, you ship software that reflects your company’s organizational structure. There’s a parallel, which I call Rishi’s Law: You ship a life that reflects your spending, friends and calendar. Ask yourself: Are my spending habits, friend…

I have five months off before I go full time. I chose this break so I could work on projects, because I had never gotten around to it during school. The original plan was to build an MVP a month like Pieter Levels. But I’ve been working on Quickapply for…

In working on Quickapply, I’ve stumbled across many reads on product market fit and idea validation. A few are gold, while the rest are just rocks. Here’s five nuggets of gold: I’m putting this here to get it out of the way-you’ve probably read this, it’s famous. But reread it…

Originally, I was collecting these reads for my brother, a junior in high school. He hasn’t thought much about what his major will be, or what his future career will look like. Basically, he has decisions to make. I got to thinking, what books and articles would I recommend my…

Parts 1 and 2 were about my first three internships, and part 3 is about my last two internships. I did my last two internships at smaller companies in comparison: Zenreach (~120 people) and Flexport (~1300 people). My first three internships, I was meandering. I didn’t feel like a hard…

In part 1, I shared my freshman and sophomore year internship experiences. Here, I share my junior year internship at Google Canada. I found myself in Waterloo, Canada because I wanted to explore a place outside the Bay Area. Now, all my friends are Canadian 😠. …

The month before my first internship, I read Alexey MK’s A Brief Guide to Tech Internships. In it, Alexey talks about his internships at Facebook and 2bkco, and what he learned from both. I used Alexey’s experiences as reference all the time as I interned. …

College student Franny Glass is in an existential funk. She says: I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I’m sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash. Like a certain Holden Caulfield, Franny sees the people around her…

Here are some keyboard shortcuts I use every day, on Mac. Chrome Cmd T — open new tab Cmd L — jump to search/url bar Cmd Shift T — open last closed tab MacOS Navigating/manipulating text Ctrl A — jump to beginning of line or text box Ctrl E —…