Sachin’s Semi-Insightful Scribblings
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An interesting mental model I’ve frequently found myself referencing is the Meta-Contrarian Midwit. Commonly described as the hipster or stereotypical …
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Mar 3, 2020Share
Inspired by this iconic Kanye interview, I’ve been thinking about the career progression for creatives in a world where the internet has enabled free d…
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Jan 11, 2020Share
As we enter the new decade I’ve been thinking a lot about the public narratives that attempt to define our near future — climate apocalypse, impending …
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Jan 4, 2020Share
I’ve recently been thinking about the structure of companies such as Amazon and Shopify that compete with legacy players not directly but via their pla…
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Jan 27, 2020Share
With an increasingly polarized world comes the dangerous tendency to impulsively bucket people through the binary lens of the hero and villain archetyp…
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Aug 9, 2020Share
Reflecting on my recent travels and in anticipation of the new decade I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how we experience the passage of time dur…
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Dec 28, 2019Share
I’ve recently been thinking about how the narrative around social media has evolved over the years. What was once considered a fun toy to stalk old cla…
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Jan 20, 2020Share
Based on my past experience working with Airbnb hosts at my last startup and recent changing market conditions affecting the travel industry, I figured…
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Mar 26, 2020Share
Inspired by this tweet from @balajis who introduces the term labor power laws — basically illustrates the asymmetry in outcomes not only in venture por…
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Dec 20, 2019Share
I recently came across this @vgr tweet that got me thinking about the concept of people mazes. Every industry has its own network of who’s whos — the s…
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Feb 10, 2020Share
Last week, an important underreported release from the European Union Parliament detailed a plan to introduce a government controlled Internet similar …
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Jul 1, 2020Share
Contrary to the expected dynamic of a democratic society we are ruled by an invisible authority — one that governs our tastes, forms our opinions and l…
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Jun 12, 2020Share
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