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Outgrowing "Growth Mindset"
Note: I struggled to title this essay, and a shoutout to my friend Alex Brussell for giving me the answer (but see my endnote for an alt title). I have…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
Giving Up and Other Blasphemies
Declaring failure is sometimes the right thing to do
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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Gilded Cages and Bullshit Jobs
Some years ago, a picaresque academic named David Graeber wrote an extremely depressing book called “Bullshit Jobs”. His primary target was a range of…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
Peer Group Problems
There is a great song that captures some of what I want to talk about here: Ray Charles singing “It should have been me”. Uncle Ray was always a few…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
Remember Who Brung Ya To The Dance
In life — work, home, relationships of all kinds — there are people who “brung ya to the dance.” Sometimes we forget them, and this is a mistake. It is…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
The Importance of Cover Letters
We just closed the application process for the Spring 2021 Amasia Fellowship. This is one of our two programs to expand access in venture capital, and…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
Bags Revisited: #Onebag For The Business Traveller
Bags! More than two years ago I wrote about bags and an update is needed. For two reasons: (a) my brain is about to explode from climate change thinking…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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