How to Start a Hardware Company With Just $60K
This was originally posted on the CoBattery blog and on the Startup Grind Medium feed in early 2017. I’m posting it here now to preserve it for the future.
Everything That’s Possible Can Happen
The play Operation Epsilon by Alan Brody covers a bizarro part of the end of World War II.
The Most Human Human — Book Review
Ostensibly, The Most Human Human by Brian Christian describes the author’s quest to beat the bots competing for the Loebner Prize, the world’s most famous Touring Test. In the contest, judges talk with humans and bots via…
Scooters and Second Order Consequences
New shared lightweight electric vehicles will change the way we get around cities, but they will also have a lot of second order effects. In this post, I predict how the rise of micro-mobility will affect nearly everything…
Review of Seneca “On the Shortness Of Life”
I really don’t understand why so many people hold this essay in high regard. Maybe I’m missing something. In my reading, Seneca is writing to Polonious, a friend or relative, who is responsible for maintaining the food…
Berlin By Bike (Bikeshare Review)
I was in Berlin for a week and there are a lot of options for getting around. The public transport system (U-bahn / S-bahn) is great, but to really see the city you should rent a bike!
Walking Towards Progress
I often find new ideas and see new perspectives when I am walking. In physics, there is a long tradition of walking as a key element of theory formulation. Einstein incorporated a walk into his daily routine. Bohr was known…
Algorithms to Live By — Book Notes
These are my super rough notes for Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. I wrote these notes for myself and cleaned them up a bit. So hopefully they make a little bit of sense!
The Everything Store — Book Notes
These are notes I wrote up after reading The Everything Store by Brad Stone. I enjoyed reading the book and learned a lot of new things about Amazon’s journey and felt like I got insight into Bezos’ mind.
Scooter Share Economics
I have been riding the new electric scooters and bikes around San Francisco.
Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark — Book Review
At the start of Life 3.0, Tegmark outlines the three different stages of life, in terms of physics…
North Korea’s Three Body Problem
The Three Body Problem is an incredibly gripping Chinese science fiction series. The trilogy starts during Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution, covers humanity discovering, losing to and overcoming an alien civilization, and…
Your Birthday Makes Me A Better Friend
I like meeting people and making new friends. But I have found myself struggling to stay in touch with old friends while also fostering new relationships. Being a computer nerd, I eventually ended up solving this problem…
Server side rendering with Flask, React, and Heroku
Right now, I am working on marketing for CoBattery. In that vein, CoBattery is an iPhone battery case with a swappable battery. It comes with two batteries, so you never have to plug in your phone.
Improving by Removing Facebook's News Feed
Facebook is distracting. My Facebook news feed gives me update after update of people I kind-of sort-of know. My ex-girlfriend went to a club with her friends last week. A kid I tangentially know from high school with just…
Why I'm taking time off MIT to work
As I write this I am supposed to be just finishing up my last first-day-of-school at MIT. I should be a senior majoring in computer science and physics. Instead, I am taking the fall off from school and right now am in San…