[5] Saurav Pahadia (& Will Hoppin)
February 18, 2021
Brennan Colberg
Season 1
Episode 5
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Things mentioned:
- FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc
- Future Engineers Camp, a startup Saurav made https://futureengineerscamp.com
- the iPad Pro, which I used for high school & sold many of https://amzn.to/3diIt3A
- Teacherly, another startup Saurav made https://teacher.ly
- Stripe, a fantastic payments API https://stripe.com
- personal.website, a side project of mine https://personal.website
- Mystery Books, a product Saurav built
- "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie https://amzn.to/3bdRckV
- Madrona Venture Labs, where we both worked https://www.madronavl.com
- AI2 Incubator, where Saurav now works https://www.ai2incubator.com
- UW Seattle, where we both went to school https://uw.edu
- Parkinson's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law
- Edyfi, the community house we live in https://edyfi.co
- multi.vote, a ranked-choice voting system I built https://multi.vote
- Tesla Today, a Tesla-related news aggregator I revamped https://teslatoday.com
- "The Art of Negotiation" by Michael Wheeler https://amzn.to/3bfAq4W
- WEEKDAYS, where I'm winding down a job https://joinweekdays.com
- Synthesis, where I'm winding up a job https://synthesis.is
- Pay 4 Hate, a potential project for inoculating against rejection (note: we didn't actually end up building this, it IS a bad idea upon sober reflection) https://pay4hate.com
- Product Hunt, a place to launch projects https://www.producthunt.com
- Google Domains, my preferred domain registrar https://domains.google.com
- Mechanical Turk, an API for repetitive human work https://www.mturk.com
- Samson's post about the "sync gap" https://www.samsonzhang.com/2021/01/13/the-sync-gap-a-framework-for-good-conversation-writing-learning-and-all-other-creative-dialogues-internal-and-external.html