There's an obscure market involving tutoring rich kids from UAE and Saudi. You can work 10 hours a week and make as much money as an entry level SWE in FAANG.
the cold DM is an art form
you need to understand what info your profile already conveys, and what is most important to get across in a paragraph or two that will be skimmed in 10 seconds
some of you are very good at this
many of you are very much not
I think I'm qualified to answer this:
1. Thanks to my efforts in my 20s, I am on a decent career path, and that means access to money. One less thing to worry about.
2. I was skinny in my 20s but thanks to regular work out and eating better, my body has filled out, and I think I
0 - Born
4 - Wanted to be a street beggar because I thought they were chilling
4 - Got an ass whooping for wanting to be a beggar
15 - Wanted to become a lawyer
15 - Got an ass whooping for wanting to be a lawyer
17 - Failed to get a JEE rank
20 - Became a lecturer in a
18 - Dropped out of school
23 - Started my first company
24 - Married my high school sweetheart ♥️
26 - Founded my first factory in China 🏭
30 - Had our first child 👧🏽
35 - Thriving trading and manufacturing businesses
38 - One day away from bankruptcy 💸
43 - Started
One of my friends is making close to 200 USD an hour by consulting for US companies wanting to use AI for their business. The mad part is that some people make 300 USD an hour. The AI hype is real and if you play your cards well you can make more than a Google research scientist.
Story time: After I moved out of my home in 2014 to live in Japan, initially I used to call my parents daily. But as I became more "internationalized" I started calling my parents less and less. I used to tell my mom "I have nothing to talk about so we don't need to call daily".
I lost my father this morning.
I got over 20 phone calls from my mom, but I was working late and didn’t hear calls. When I finally picked up (at around 8am), I booked the fastest flight I could, but I’ll only reach by 7 PM.
I’m sitting at the airport now, waiting for my second
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
I studied at IIT Bombay.
I chose to do my PhD.
I was 24 years old and unhappy.
I did my PhD at Kyoto University.
Always dreamed of working at big tech.
Couldn't get in.
I was 28 and unhappy.
Settled for my current work place with mediocre salary.
No one expected anything from
1. "Love of your life" is a fantasy.
2. The initial excitement of meeting someone new and interesting often leads to poor judgement and delulu. One of my friends nearly ruined their marriage because of temporary delulu. Took 2 years and a lot of therapy to fix it.
3. Real
My wildest brag is that during my internship in Google in 2016, I showed some improvements in Google Translate for some low resource languages and Noam actually replied to my results thread calling my work "awesome".
I think that was my peak.
Fwiw, at that point of time, I had
> be me
> Noam Shazeer
> drops "Attention Is All You Need" on arXiv 2017
> execs nod politely, then go back to selling ads for socks
> transformers left to gather dust in a drawer
> i have no idea what i started will change the world
> 2020
> build a chatbot (Meena) so good it
I graduated UG at 21. Felt like my life was over so I joined masters.
I graduated masters at 25. Felt like my life was over so I joined PhD.
I graduated PhD at 28. Felt like my life was over so I kept grinding.
At 35, I feel like my life has just begun despite not having any
