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Sep 19, 2021

0 0 0 0 = 24

A fun puzzle that kept my friends and me up at night — Game 24 Game 24 is a classic math game for grade school students. According to Wikipedia: Game 24 is an arithmetical card game in which the objective is to find a way to manipulate four integers so that the end result is 24. For example, for the card with the numbers 4…

Mathematics

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0 0 0 0 = 24
0 0 0 0 = 24
Mathematics

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Sep 12, 2020

Career | How to Ask for Referrals Non-awkwardly?

I often joke that asking for referral is a lot like initiating a sex conversation with your new partner. You need a consent, but you don’t want to sound pushy. Are you two close enough? Maybe you should wait. But what if the other person is willing? Then it’s a…

Networking

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Career | How to Ask for Referrals Non-awkwardly?
Career | How to Ask for Referrals Non-awkwardly?
Networking

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Aug 12, 2020

Career | Can I be a Product Manager without a Technical Background?

The short answer is, absolutely yes! The more elaborate answer is, you have a lot of homework to do! I get this question all the time from aspiring PMs. Lots of them are intimidated by the computer science degree requirement in the job description. My guess is companies put the…

Product

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Career | Can I be a Product Manager without Technical Background?
Career | Can I be a Product Manager without Technical Background?
Product

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Aug 11, 2020

Career | Resources for Early in Career Product Managers

My company has an amazing learn-it-alls culture. We are expected to block time on calendar specifically for learning and reflection and we have access to a wide range of free learning resources. While I cannot share the resources per company policy, I want to share the list of them. Lots…

Product Management

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Career | Resources for Early in Career Product Managers
Career | Resources for Early in Career Product Managers
Product Management

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Jul 20, 2020

Life | Big Rocks in My Life

I have a healthy amount of existential crisis after reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. One of many impressive things about Elon Musk is his long-term thinking. Though Elon Musk only started Tesla after Zip2, PayPal, and SpaceX, he was thinking about electrical car…

Love

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Life | Big Rocks in My Life
Life | Big Rocks in My Life
Love

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Jul 19, 2020

Write Productively

This article is the result of a chat with Ashwag Alasmari. She asked me how I managed to publish articles frequently. So this is a sneak peek in my writing process. Note this article is not about writing high quality pieces, because I am yet to figure that out. …

Writing

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Write Productively
Write Productively
Writing

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Jul 5, 2020

Career | Resources for Aspiring Product Managers

As a product manager, I get questions about how to break into PM world a lot. So I compiled all resources I have used, added specific information about Microsoft, and listed all my PM-related articles. Hope you find them helpful! I will update this blog when I have new resources. Resume …

Product Management

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Product Management

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Jul 3, 2020

Career | Make Meetings Great Again

[Update] After publishing this article, I read a leaked memo on LinkedIn from Elon Musk at Tesla. He made some really good points, so I will include his advice first: [Update: 10/04/2021] My colleague Ryan S. shared this article with our team. It’s similar to Elon Musk’ ideas, but it came with…

Meetings

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Career | Make Meetings Great Again
Career | Make Meetings Great Again
Meetings

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Jun 20, 2020

Education | Precious Lessons our Education doesn’t Teach

I previously wrote an article about what I learned after going to 6 universities. It received a lot of good responses on Facebook. I am glad many people find it relatable: Graduation: what my education truly leaves me with My reflections on education after going to 6 universitiesmedium.com This article is about what isn’t taught at school. …

Education

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Education

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·May 22, 2020

Technical | Python dict.fromkeys() function

I recently started to take Harvard CS50’s latest AI course on edX and really enjoy it. I was working on one of its programming assignments, PageRank, based on Google’s search engine algorithm that ranks webpages according to their importance and relevancy: PageRank — CS50’s Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python This course explores the concepts and algorithms at the foundation of modern artificial intelligence, diving into the…cs50.harvard.edu

Python

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Technical | Python dict.fromkeys() function
Technical | Python dict.fromkeys() function
Python

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