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ADHD, Conscientiousness and Will Power
Online debates about ADHD often devolve into a standoff between those sharing their struggles and skeptics dismissing it all as excuse-making.
Dec 5
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Vaishnav Sunil
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In Defense of Finance Bros
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Dec 2
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Vaishnav Sunil
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November 2024
What Business School Actually Buys You: Notes on Optionality, Signals, and Networks
In 2018, my boss gave me 17 reasons why business school was a bad idea and convinced me to stay.
Nov 17
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Vaishnav Sunil
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What Business School Actually Buys You: Notes on Optionality, Signals, and Networks
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Startup Hiring: Solving the Problem of Incentives and Trust
The Early-Stage Hiring Trap
Nov 14
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Vaishnav Sunil
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Volatility Laundering: How to Tell if Your Non-Traditional Career is Actually Working
In my last post about career liquidity, I talked about how careers differ in how easily their value can be assessed and traded in the market - much like…
Nov 9
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Vaishnav Sunil
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Volatility Laundering: How to Tell if Your Non-Traditional Career is Actually Working
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October 2024
India & Meritocracy: How India's Past Shapes What It Celebrates
Every year, India's newspapers devote prime front-page real estate to celebrating IIT-JEE toppers—students who excel in the brutally competitive…
Oct 31
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Vaishnav Sunil
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India & Meritocracy: How India's Past Shapes What It Celebrates
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ADHD and Managing Your Reputation
Paul Graham's essay titled "Good and Bad Procrastination" argues that procrastination can be virtuous when it means putting off small tasks to work on…
Oct 24
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Vaishnav Sunil
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August 2024
Liquid vs. Illiquid Careers
Note: This is the first post in a series of posts about career liquidity.
Aug 3
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Vaishnav Sunil
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July 2024
Adverse Selection by Life Saving Charities
GiveWell, and the EA community at large, often emphasize the "cost of saving a life" as a key metric, $5,000 being the most commonly cited…
Jul 11
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Vaishnav Sunil
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Careers: Personal Fit, Passion, Impact Optimization and more
This is the first of my series of conversation on careers and talent with AI researcher and career coach Kathleen Finlinson and Andreas Pashos from the…
Jul 2
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Vaishnav Sunil
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From Runway to Career Capital: A Framework for Evaluating Startup Jobs
Since I wrote my last piece making the case for working at a startup, I saw a tweet (that I’m now unable to find) that urged potential employees to…
Jul 1
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Vaishnav Sunil
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From Runway to Career Capital: A Framework for Evaluating Startup Jobs
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June 2024
Against loose feedback loops for young professionals
Most of what we value around us has been created by people who figured out what other people want and found cost-effective ways of giving it to them.
Jun 24
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Vaishnav Sunil
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