PinnedCOVID-19 and the vaccine renaissanceThis pandemic is a historic use case for nucleic acid vaccines — Quarantine has become so normal in most of our day-to-day lives now that my friends nostalgically remember early 2020 like it was decades ago. …Covid-1911 min readCovid-1911 min read
Aug 26, 2022Less Western Blots, more ggplotsFor biologists transitioning from the wet lab to bioinformatics. — I’ve spent the last two years in labs: building, learning and breaking stuff. I entered as a wet lab trainee and aspiring cell culture guru but emerged as a sapling bioinformatician. …Bioinformatics10 min readBioinformatics10 min read
Aug 4, 2020The Builder Era of BiologyLife science degrees are like CS degrees in the '70s — One of the most common existential crises of incoming life sciences students can be summed up in one big question: Is this degree useless if I don’t get into medical school? Now if you have a genuine passion for working with patients and practicing medicine- go for it! COVID-19 has…Biology7 min readBiology7 min read
May 20, 2020Advice for ambitious 1st-year undergraduatesI entered university like someone who just held hands with their crush for the first time- naively thrilled and extremely nervous. …University7 min readUniversity7 min read
Published inThe Startup·Nov 11, 2019Member-onlyMake yourself antifragileBeing fragile as a person is a bad thing, and pure resiliency is overrated — I’ve been thinking about this question that I keep getting asked during interviews for jobs and opportunities: What do you believe in that almost everyone else disagrees with? Up until last year, I didn’t have a confidently contrarian belief to answer this question, yet I should have. My answer was…Self Improvement7 min readSelf Improvement7 min read
Published inThe Startup·Oct 26, 2019Member-onlyLive as your future-self wouldLet your future self act as the scaffold for your self-improvement — There are about 10⁸² atoms in the deep blackness of our universe. But even that pales in comparison to the number of times I along with every other kid in school has been asked: “When you grow up what do you want to do?” Even though I’ve been asked this…Philosophy6 min readPhilosophy6 min read
Oct 13, 2019There’s a price to everything you wantBuddhism on how suffering stems from our own desires — Let’s imagine for a full 24 hours that you had to keep track of every single thing you wanted for a whole day. From the moment you clumsily smack your phone’s morning alarm to when you’re brushing your teeth before bed. Throughout the day you’ll probably find yourself wanting little…Buddhism7 min readBuddhism7 min read
Oct 4, 2019You don’t need much to be happy.Lessons from Epicurus on our pleasures, friends, and wants — Nobody wakes up thinking “Wow today sucks and I want it to suck more! I can’t wait to have a huge fight with my girlfriend, get laid off from my job, and lose all my money in a housing crash today.” Almost all of us live our lives with the…Happiness6 min readHappiness6 min read
Sep 28, 2019Member-onlyBecoming a more Thoughtful ApeLessons from Plato on thought processes and reasoning — Name me a smart person who did something revolutionary in the last 10–20 years. To this question a few people may come to your head: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, the list goes on. …Philosophy6 min readPhilosophy6 min read
Sep 21, 2019Member-onlyStart by asking “Why?”Lessons from Socratic Questioning, and how to apply it to your day-to-day — If any point in history is like a kid who doesn’t stop asking their dad questions to the point their dad either gets angry or tells the kid to ask their mom, it’d be the story of Socrates and the people of ancient Athens. In the bustling Agra public zone…Philosophy5 min readPhilosophy5 min read
