Building Your Portfolio as a Rust Blockchain Engineer

Do you want to break into the blockchain world as a Rust engineer? Your portfolio is your ticket to standing out. It’s your chance to show off your skills, projects, and passion for coding.

Using Docker for Verifiable Solana Builds

Verifiable Solana Builds of Native Solana programs with Docker.

How to Test Native Solana Programs in Rust

Use Rust to test your Solana programs FAST!

[SHORTS] Speed of Iteration > Brand

When you're building something, whether it be a tech product or an organization, I find that you will always start with a bucket of 2 things: questions and assumptions. Arriving at your optimal solution (or in this case Product Market Fit) is all about answering these questions and

[SHORTS] On Tech Status Quo: Is this the verifiable optimal solution? Or is this a byproduct of the lack of options and education?

Tech is massively opinionated here and there, but don't mistake the status quo as the optimal solution. Especially, for emerging technologies such as blockchain (web3). Question the current systems. Why are we doing things the way we do? Does this address our core issue? Or is this adoption

[SHORTS] Web3-ready `wasm-next-starter` for WASM-powered Web3 Applications built in Rust 2024 (Metaprogramming)

Web3-ready `wasm-next-starter` for WASM-powered Web3 Applications built in Rust 2024 (Metaprogramming)

[SHORTS] On Mental Models / Skill Summaries...

A distillation of essence.

[SHORTS] Freelancing Platforms don't work, they take away your power

Here's why...

Rust Traits: Blanket Implementations vs Supertraits

Find the difference between Blanket Implementations and Supertraits in the Rust programming language.

Organizing Your Monolithic Rust Projects with Cargo Workspaces

Organizing Your Monolithic Rust Projects with Cargo Workspaces

Rust Nation UK 2024: My Key Takeaways

Rust Nation UK is the first conference dedicated to the Rust programming language. Here are my key takeaways.

Open Society Stack: Pursuing Hyperproductivity

Building a hyperproductive society with the Open Society Stack.

Healthy Alice and Bob

Powerlifting is an Essential Part of Entrepreneurship

At least in my tech entrepreneurship journey... Nothing shows one's capability to conquer quite as visible as powerlifting. And let me tell you why. In this blog post, I'll show you 1. How powerlifting helps you in entrepreneurship 2. How you can get started today A

Personal Development

You can only be 1 of these 3 things in life

1. In pursuit of your purpose 2. In search of your purpose 3. In limbo, going with the flow But wait? What's Purpose? Purpose is one's reason for being. If you're confused a more quantifiable definition of purpose is what I call a lighthouse.

Personal Development

Your goals will happen, it's just a matter of time

Learning programming at 9 years old taught me a powerful mindset: Anything you set out to achieve is certain to happen, it's just a matter of energy and time. Much like how I wanted to build a cool website when I was young, it was just a matter

Entrepreneurship

3 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Founder

If I were to go back in time these are some of the things I wish I knew before becoming a founder. 1. It's worth 2 full-time jobs 2. Work together before you venture into startups 3. Scale > Growth Subscribe to my newsletter! It's worth

Entrepreneurship

Founder Stories: How to Effectively Achieve your Goals

Ok... hear me out. Working towards your goals is all about reflecting on the processes and not the tasks. What do I mean by that? In pursuing your goals, personal or organizational, they both converge in the same thing: goal-aligned processes. If you look back into your life and reminisce

Brick by Brick

Mother's Day Special: How Losing My Mom Redefined the Meaning of a "Simple Life"

Life is only simple if you can make it simple. Not even a mindset shift or personal contentment can make life simple. Whoever says otherwise hasn't gone through the realities of life: it's unforgiving and heeds no one. The best we can do in life is

Untethered Entrepreneurship

How Leadership Demands the Best Version of You

Leadership is more inward than it is outward. 1. Empathy - to align 2. Growth - to progress 3. Discipline - to create space 4. Self-Awareness - to navigate In this article I will walk you through my journey into leadership and how it turned into something more inward than

SHEESH

A Crash Course on Influence

At the end of this article, you will know how you can mobilize the earth to bring you closer to your goals. The fundamentals that would supercharge your networking and scale your influence beyond what your fingers can reach. This writing will open your mind to the infinite possibilities of

SHEESH

AI's taking jobs? Future-proof yourself as a freelancer in any industry

Spoiler alert. It's learning sales. I know you're wondering, why? Well, I don't claim to be an expert in sales, but it has been the single most impactful skill I've learned in my entire life. Wanna know why? Let's take

SHEESH

The Intuitive Science of People 01: Human Baseline

If you ever wonder how you can gauge people, you're in the right place. For this episode of TISP, we'll discuss the Human Baseline. The Intuitive Science of People is an article series that talks about my personal experiences and observations with human behavior. Disclaimer: I

Bits and Blocks

The Learning Bucket: A Non-Linear Pursuit of Knowledge

For the longest time, we have been conditioned to think that learning has to be linear. Chapter by chapter. Lesson by lesson. I understand, I used to believe that too, but after more than a decade of teaching myself how to code, I can tell you that it's

Brick by Brick

3 Overarching Functions of Life to Help You Make Decisions

Thinking of life as a complex combination of multiple functions is an interesting way to live. It unearths obvious cause-and-effect relationships helping you navigate life with more intention and self-control. So far here are three of the top overarching functions of life I find useful in my day-to-day decision-making. Risk