An honest 2024 recap: Curated Connections
8x'ed revenue, went from 1 tool → 5 tools and got lots of great testimonials. But we still haven't reached ramen profitability.
Writing Without Expectations: my new writing practice
Why you should not write engaging articles, writing without expectations and how I defeat the Blank Page Paralysis monster every week
Unapologetically product-led: Rejecting the growth hacking wisdom of 2010s
Our marketing strategy for 2025, why we are rejecting the marketing "best practices" that have emerged in 2010s and why this strategy will win
Beautiful tools inspire beautiful work - doubling down on Ghost
Why I spent a week building custom Ghost themes for my blogs with AI and why you should too
The founder community I need
https://x.com/fdotinc/status/1868854980767367330 "Building something for yourself. Work on things you wish existed." I've been building comm
GPT-3 vs. Human: Who can write a better article on community building?
I wanted to see how GPT-3 performed when I asked it to rewrite my latest article on community building. Here are my notes.
Unintuitive things I've learnt about building an online community
Whether you are setting up your community, growing engagement or measuring the return on your efforts, here are 11 mistakes to avoid as a first time community builder
I quit programming 3 years ago. But DHH's promise of Rails makes me want to get back to it.
For the past ~3 years, I have been making a living as a community professional. I help startups turn their faceless audiences into online co
Remote work is a fad. Just like remote learning, remote shopping or remote publishing.
It is easy to dismiss remote work for all the obvious challenges that come from missing human contact. But the smartest people of tomorrow will be the early adopters today who focus on power of the innovation.
3 Pillars of On Deck's Community Building Playbook - that you can use in your own community
I'm going to discuss each of these pillars and describe how On Deck created a high-value experience around them, so that you may use it for your own community.
15 key community-building takeaways from the book: Business of Belonging by David Spinks
Also, my fan letter for David and his book
Writing Well: A Must-Have Skill That No One Taught You
How being a good writer can take your career to the next level
You should expect "equal pay for equal work" at your new remote job
Tough questions to ask your remote employer who gives you Cost Of Living based compensation and some thoughts on how remote compensation will work in the future
Books I Have Read and Reread - my views, highlights and notes
My naturally honest book recommendations
Writing Clean Code and the Practice of Programming
Simple rules for better programming that are generally neglected by newcomers
Fantastic Programming Project Ideas and Where To Find Them (a beginner-friendly version)
20 cool project ideas for data science, machine-learning app development, and web development
Advance Your Python Skills by Building a Whatsapp Chat Analyser
A guided project that helps you dive into creating something cool and learn useful programming concepts by yourself!
Self-learning is difficult and frankly, quite lonely. Here’s how you can make it easier.
3 systems to make self-learning easier, Mentors to follow on Twitter and Cool Project Ideas for learning
Getting started with Gradient Boosting Machines - using XGBoost and LightGBM parameters
What I will do is I sew a very simple explanation of Gradient Boosting Machines around the parameters of 2 of its most popular implementations — LightGBM and XGBoost.
How to surf the web to find motivating and insightful content
What I also want to say is that these cool webpages/people that I come across can come to anyone.
Comparison of software developers in India with US, UK, Germany and the entire world
I analysed the Stack Overflow survey and found a stark contrast in salaries, youth, interest in new tools, opinions about AI, ethics and more..
Use Kaggle to start (and guide) your ML and Data Science journey - Why and How
Earlier, I wasn’t so sure. I would say something like do this course or read this tutorial or learn Python first (just the things that I did). But now, as I am going deeper and deeper into the field, I am beginning to realise the drawbacks of the approach that I took.
Getting started with reading Deep Learning research papers: the Why and the How
With hundreds of papers being published every month, anybody who is serious about learning in this field cannot rely merely on tutorial-style articles or courses where someone else breaks down the latest research for him/her.
How (and why) to start building useful, real-world software with no experience
“Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it.”
"WTH does a neural network even learn?" - A newcomer's dilemma
It almost eases the mind to believe that we have this intangible sort of.. man-made “thing” that is analogous to the mind itself! It is especially appealing to someone who has just begun his/her Deep Learning journey.
Learn How To Be a Better Programmer by Automating the Boring Stuff
A good problem provides a stage. A stage where you can apply your knowledge, see its effects, and draw conclusions from it to improve and go back to perform.
How I learnt the difference between self-learning and formal education
For a long time, I relied solely on my formal education. I put too much faith in it. Last year, when I joined college and all that faith fel
