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Ask For a Raise

With inflation skyrocketing, getting a raise could mean the difference between keeping a roof over your head and being homeless. So I start every 1-on-1 with this question: “When’s my next raise?” I wasn’t always like this. For the first 5 years of my career, I wasn’t

How To Give Your All

After quitting my job to start my own company, I became paralyzed with fear. I would lie in my bed worried about whether I’d ever be able to find another job. I was watching my savings dwindle. One day my co-founder, Sahil, asked if I wanted to go on

Colloquial-Written Tamil

People want to connect with each other. The easiest way is to speak the language, the way people do, colloquially. I want to minimize the time it takes to accomplish that in Tamil. When I first started learning Tamil, I concentrated on the formal flavor. I didn’t realize the

How I Learned Tamil As an Adult

I learned a hyper-specific regional dialect of Tamil from the Northern Province of Sri Lanka (SL) while never having left New York City. In fact, I’ve never even been to SL. I used to think this was impossible, until I did it myself. My Why When I was 23,

How to Migrate From Ghost to Substack (Pt 1)

Last week, I migrated the TTT newsletter from Ghost to Substack for 2 reasons 1. Better email deliverability 2. Network effects to grow the community Since switching, I've grown subscribers over 10%. It's not just me, see this thread from Louie Bacaj... In a prior role,

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