Akash Joshi

Personal Finance

The Hidden Costs of Consumer Goods

It's 2 days after Diwali now, and after several days of people telling me to purchase expensive consumer goods, here's why I won't buy an iPhone, an expensive car, or anything else without a solid reason: Hidden Costs Each consumer good you buy comes with Hidden Costs which ties up

Advice

Making your first Open-Source Contribution in 2022

🔴 Tips on contributing to Open-Source 🔴 I recently was working with a few new libraries, and found a few places I could make changes. After getting my changes merged in, I found other places where I could make improvements, although I didn't have the time to contribute due to personal obligations.

Advice

Career Advice from discussion with a Senior Google Engineer

A few weekends ago, we had an amazing 45-minute long discussion with Jason Mayes, who is the Senior Dev Advocate for TensorFlow.JS at Google. Jason's journey on how he reached Google and eventually became a Dev Advocate for TensorFlow.JS is quite different than the one we're used to

Ethnolinguistics

The Languages of Ancient India & Europe

I like reading about the histories of cultures and languages, and yesterday I had the thought, "I wonder what languages were spoken around Europe and South Asia before the current (Indo-European) ones?" Did you know that most of the major languages spoken around Europe and South Asia, like Hindi, English,

Ethnolinguistics

Modern China : The Uyghurs

The Uyghurs [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs] are a Turkic minority ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asia] and East Asia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asia]. The Uyghurs are recognized as native to the

Ethnolinguistics

Ancient India : About Ravana & Lanka

Ravana [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravana] is described as having been as a follower of Shiva, a great scholar, a capable ruler and a maestro of the Veena, but someone who wished to overpower the Devas. In the Ramayana [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana], Ravana kidnaps Sita, who

Personal

The Distraction Economy is Reopening

Or, how to focus at work while everything and everyone is trying to steal your attention

Permissionless Learning

PL #8 - Creating Opportunities for yourself by doing the work you love

From winning 🚀NASA's space settlement design contest in 2013 to getting an inbound job offer from VOLVO Cars Sweden, Zareen [https://www.linkedin.com/in/zareencheema/]has lived a life full of challenges in its true sense. Zareen has actively contributed to the Space industry together with advocating for Climate

Web3

Web3 Breakdown: DAOs

Web3 is already here, and has brought high-paying jobs with it. Previously we talked about NFTs. Now let's talk about DAOs ⚡🧵 DAOs? Yes! Decentralised Autonomous Organisations. An old concept, but something which has been revitalized by the recent crypto trends. DAOs are collabarative structures working towards shared tasks & goals in

Web3

A Brief Introduction to NFTs

Hey all 👋! Web3 (the web that runs on blockchains, decentralized servers, and peer-to-peer nodes) is now so large that even newspapers in India are talking about it. > This was on India's largest newspapers frontpage today 😁😁 #crypto [https://twitter.com/hashtag/crypto?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #NFT [https://twitter.

Permissionless Learning

Exploring Web3 as Beginner Devs - NFTs, DAOs and dApps

So our community at Permissionless Learning [https://thewriting.dev/pl] managed to pull of something EPIC. We managed to get 2 founders of large-scale Web3 projects to talk about their journey and give a pathway for beginners. 🔴 Who are they? Tanseer Saji [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAABiOrmMBIWRzu4nrwA0IjCQAWr0I3HQ9W9s] 👉 Founder of

Permissionless Learning

Making Cybersecurity Exciting Again

Hey folks, this Sunday (September 5th) at 2.30 PM IST, we're having a chat with Pushkar Jaltare, a Cybersecurity Engineer working in AWS (Amazon Web Services) from Canada. Pushkar started his journey in India, and through hard work and making the right choices, made his way to AWS. We'll

Book Review

Deep Work Book Review

I read Deep Work by Cal Newport twice in the past 3 months, here are my thoughts on it. (This isn't a book summary, smarter people than me have created summaries on this book. This is more my personal experience with the book.) 1) Readability When starting the book first,

Web Development

The Complete Guide to Learning HTML

Learning how to learn HTML via: 1. Learning tag structures 2. Learning Semantic HTML 3. Learning how to look things up on MDN is the fastest way to get into tech and programming. I've now tried this with multiple people, and each of them take their own steps to start

Permissionless Learning

Beyond FAANG

Most of you by now have been convinced that MS, Leetcode and FAANG is the end goal in life and there's nothing to achieve beyond it. > Read till the end for some open career opportunities. But did you know, that some people choose alternative paths, and manage to earn in

Personal

Invest in Yourself

The #1 resource that a pre/early-career person has in abundance is time. Spend it carefully. What I suggest/follow is building an online portfolio. Spend at least 8 hours a week investing in YOURSELF, so that people are more likely to invest in you. As you progress in career/

Permissionless Learning

Talking Spacecraft Materials with an ISRO Scientist 🚀

Hey all! This weekend (August 7) at 11 AM, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to freely discuss Space and Materials used in Spacecrafts with an actual ISRO scientist. Mr. Arun Dwivedi is a Senior Materials Scientist, who is responsible for destructive 💥 and non-destructive testing of materials for their use in

Getting a job in frontend with no experience or degree

Hey all 👋 I recently made a video on landing your first role in Web Development, and getting RECRUITERS in your DMs 📩 Firstly, Why to care about getting a job in Web Development? ➔ Purely skill based ➔ No prior coding experience or CS degree needed ➔ Roadmap to learn it is clear, and

Personal

How to sleep on time

Having trouble sleeping in time at night? Here's what works for me: - no caffeine within 9 hours of bedtime - no naps after 5 pm - no sugar at dinner time - heavy exercise in morning, light walk in evening - no screens 2 hours within sleep time -

Strategy

The Fine Line between Side-Hustles and Burnout

There's a fine line between working on side-hustles and burning out too quickly. I truly love my side-hustles and creating content. If the week had 9 days, I would do this for all 9. Eg, I started editing the session we recorded this Sunday since yesterday after work, and woke

Strategy

Build the Damn Thing

The "Build the Damn Thing" Mental Model to learning new frameworks/programming languages 🛠. Let me explain a mental model I use to learn new things in ~2 hours, which you can also use! A Mental Model is a repeatable set of steps that you take to reach an outcome. In

Permissionless Learning

The Future of Everyday Design - Permissionless Learning #3

"No one works harder than the boss". For the 3rd eps. of #permissionlesslearning, we're bringing Akshay Ballal on board with whom we're going to talk about the Future of EVERYDAY DESIGN 🔮🎨 He is someone who progressed from an Intern to CPO in 4 years!! He works at FabHeads, which is

Strategy

Lagging Metrics vs Leading Metrics

When judging your own work, or comparing your accomplishments against someone else's, think about Lagging Metrics vs Leading Metrics. Lagging Metrics are the things you see online/make you envious. People's achievements, where someone works or how much they earn, etc. However, Lagging Metrics don't appear out of thin air,

Permissionless Learning

What are the opportunities for SpaceTech in India? - PermissionLess Learning #2

Episode 2 of Permissionless Learning, which was on SPACEEEE 🚀 Technology is now open for your ears' perusal online. To give a summary of what we talked about: ➔ The Virgin Galactic Space flight ➔ The current scenario of space tech globally/in India ➔ Opportunities of Space tech in India ➔ How can one

React

What's New in React 18?

Hey guys! In this article, I'm going to teach you what's new in the latest of version of React, ie, React 18 in under 8 minutes. First up, if you're wondering whether the latest set of changes will break anything with your current setup, or whether you will have to