Author’s Note

This article is based on personal experience and may be extremely subjective. The purpose of this article is to share my opinions, and its contents should not be generalized without giving thought.

There are so many rumors about working at a startup. You will hear things like “You don’t get paid on time”, “You pull all-nighters just about every day(or night)”, “You have to do all sorts of thing unrelated to your job description”, or “You don’t know when they will go bankrupt”. And to some extent, these statements are true.

However, most of these rumors don’t show…

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Like many others across the nation, my school transitioned into virtual learning in March of 2020. One of the biggest questions that teachers, students, and parents all had about this new form of learning was “How will assessments work?” and How will we prevent cheating?”

Different schools and teachers adopted different tactics. Some have opted to join the “arms race” between anti-cheating software and cheaters. Others went for timed tests or proctored online exams.

Well, now it has been about 1.5 semesters since we’ve been in this environment. Whatever method you chose, we’ve learned that preventing cheating completely was almost…

In early 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic moved many schools, including Ben Armstrong’s, online. Ben Armstrong, Ph.D. is a former Google employee and currently teaches Technology & Public Policy and ‘Reimagining Capitalism’ at Brown University.

One day, as he was teaching his class on Zoom, one of his students asked to try “silent meetings.” Armstrong, at first, ignored the idea assuming that it was just a student who was fed up with the nonstop lectures on Zoom.

But, then it struck him. “Silent meetings” were a real concept used in many tech companies, including Twitter, Square, and Amazon. And surprisingly, when he…

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At the 1956 Dartmouth College conference, computer scientists John McCarthy, Claude Shannon, and Marvin Minsky announced that a computer program could theoretically mimic our human intelligence. They called this theoretical program, Artificial Intelligence, or AI.

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From programming to software development to engineering, there are only a finite number of programming languages that are used on a day-to-day basis. One of the reasons that new programming languages have a hard time penetrating the market, is because of the existing codebases and backward compatibility. Incorporating a new language into your ecosystem means spending hours ensuring that any old code works with the new language, or in the worst-case rebuilding everything from scratch.

C & C++

I like C and C++. Yes, they are old, but they get the job done. And old isn’t old when you consider that the International…

June 1st, 2020. Amidst the BLM protests, Donald Trump utilized the power of law enforcement to forcefully “dispersed” the peaceful protestors in order to get a picture of him holding a bible in front of St. John’s. Law enforcement, wearing riot gear, hit these protestors with tear gas, batons, and rubber bullets at point-blank.

On January 6th, 2021 a real riot broke out. What had traditionally been a ceremonial congressional event turned into the tragic day in American history, since 9/11. …

What am I supposed to be doing?

“It’s never been easier to start a company. It’s never been harder to build one.” — Naval Ravikant

Starting a new company is easy. But growing and stabilizing one is not. Especially, before getting any funding/investments, you are more or less on your own. In this article, we will examine the four stages of a startup, which I define as idea, startup, traction, growth, and the important to-dos at each stage.

My Four Stages of Startups
1. The Idea Stage
2. The Startup Stage
3. Traction Stage
4. Growth Stage

1. The Idea Stage

In this stage, you do not have any prototypes or…

In 2017, a freshman at Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania, referred to as “B. L.” in court documents, failed to make it into her school’s varsity cheerleading team. Like many teenagers, “B.L.” took to social media to express her frustration. She posted a photo of herself and her friend with their middle fingers up, along with a series of f-bombs. She wrote “f*** school, f*** softball, f*** cheer, and f***everything.”

“f*** school, f*** softball, f*** cheer, and f***everything.”

Soon after, a teammate showed the post to her mother, a coach, which resulted in “B.L.” being suspended from the junior…