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Last year, I went to FailCon and StartupSchool (they were situated around the same weekend). I could easily say that I learned way more listening to the cases of failures than the “here’s what worked for me, but probably won’t work again, and most certainly won’t work for you if you do it exactly the [...]

I’m surprised I waited so long to read this book by Randy Komisar, now almost a decade old, titled The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur. The book is a light read, I finished it between two short airplane flights to/fro Philly. Lots of this stuff is intuitive if you [...]

I have been evangelizing this book, Rapt, recently in small circles of friends. Like Stumbling on Happiness, it’s not a self-help book, it deals more with cognition, attention, and social psych than anything. I thought I’d take the time to post my interesting curations from the book since they are highly related to BettrAt. – [...]

I rarely buy things, being a recent graduate student saddled with loans and working on an exciting new lean startup, Bettr@. (When do you actually have the time anyway?) Here’s a useful lifehack I’ve found for saving money at Amazon.com that you may have tried. Instead of using a wishlist for yourself, just save stuff [...]