Hima Sheth

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Just because someone can or will change doesn’t mean they can or will change with you.
bookbear express | Ava | Substack
Are you modeling sane judgment and secure attachment and great relationships? Or are you behaving like someone who’s obsessed with changing another person because you’re bored or dissatisfied with your own life?
bookbear express | Ava | Substack
It is good practice to note somebody’s flaws as they are revealed to you and presume that each flaw will remain intact until the day the person dies.
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Have women behind you.
Women in SV — Celine Halioua
You don’t have to run your company like a bro.
Women in SV — Celine Halioua
It’s frustrating and unfair, but you cannot control other people’s biases - but you can counter them quickly and efficiently.
Women in SV — Celine Halioua
concise, information-dense set of phrases memorized on why you are excellent
Women in SV — Celine Halioua
The standards for you are higher.
Women in SV — Celine Halioua
more women in power will encourage it to shift to a newer, more friendly base
Women in SV — Celine Halioua
don’t smile too much and don’t be too friendly to people you are pitching or are otherwise assessing you
Women in SV — Celine Halioua
apathetic, very logical, quantitative and concise sentences, fast-speaking, use and identify their models in their speech, a dash of academic prose, direct eye contact, infallible confidence
Women in SV — Celine Halioua
Build a model of how busy people think. Minimize activation energy and effort for other people to help you.
Advice for Early Career — Celine Halioua
Optimize to be the least competent/smart/ambitious/accomplished person in the room
Advice for Early Career — Celine Halioua
Take in the advice and normalize for this bias.
Advice for Early Career — Celine Halioua
Understand when you are making decisions based on your insecurities.
Advice for Early Career — Celine Halioua
being treated in gender-stereotypical ways, being assigned routine managerial and secretarial tasks instead of engaging in core engineering work, differential treatment by professors, facing unchallenging projects, sexual harassment, experiencing greater isolation from supportive networks, encountering an environment less open to social responsibility, struggling with imposter syndrome, and facing challenges related to maternity leaves and childcare
National Engineering Month 2024 – Women in Engineering
women make up 20% of engineering graduates, but nearly 40% of women who earn their degrees either quit or never enter the profession
National Engineering Month 2024 – Women in Engineering
But rather, strong taste gives you the psychological safety to enable you to look to others for inspiration and help you attend to things you otherwise would not have noticed. Strongly developed taste to bring more things into your periphery
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhile
It because of this fear that we default to settle on what is popular or what has been done before.
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhile
One specific epistemic trap that has been particularly fatal to exploratory taste is the fear of being wrong
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhile
We have outsourced our value systems for what is good and bad (how we may judge aesthetic value) to other people.
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhile
The goal is not to be “productive”, it’s to join a network fueled by passion. You do this by sharing your passion, not by exchanging the latest research
Unhinged: Curiosity as Ambition — NPC #788
There is monumental value in shared interests
Unhinged: Curiosity as Ambition — NPC #788
this needs to happen AFTER long periods of uninterrupted leisure/nothingness. The magic of gathering information only shows up by connecting new curiosities to what you’ve learned over time
Unhinged: Curiosity as Ambition — NPC #788
Most people get stuck because they only focus on gathering niche knowledge and then get frustrated when that expert knowledge isn’t recognized or rewarded financially
Unhinged: Curiosity as Ambition — NPC #788
You need to become an expert (takes time, “less hard”, requires grit) You need to shape your expertise into something useful (“hard”)
Unhinged: Curiosity as Ambition — NPC #788
Read interesting articles and books Trace the sources to original thinkers/crafters Connect with them through cold emails, phone calls, and direct messages Build something (writing, a website, organizing a project)
Unhinged: Curiosity as Ambition — NPC #788
Being bored had reset my forgotten conscious curiosity. My natural interests started to surface again. It was only within boredom that curiosity showed up. At first, it was not very refined (“what would a run feel like today?” “why is this picture fading?”). Over the course of about a month, the questions became more complex.
Unhinged: Curiosity as Ambition — NPC #788
It’s important to note here that there wasn’t anything “special” happening. Or a better framing, the specialness was the nothingness. I remember looking at myself in the mirror “I don’t have bags under my eyes wtf”. My partner commented, “I don’t think I’ve felt this rested since before high-school”. We are in our mid-thirties for context.
Unhinged: Curiosity as Ambition — NPC #788
You are just trying to find helpful, knowledgable people who are excited about your idea
The Mom Test: how to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everybody is lying to you
If it’s not a formal meeting, you don’t need to make excuses about why you’re there or even mention that you’re starting a business. Just have a good conversation
The Mom Test: how to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everybody is lying to you
At their best, these conversations are a pleasure for both parties. You’re probably the first person in a long time to be truly interested in the petty annoyances of their day
The Mom Test: how to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everybody is lying to you
Don’t feel obliged to repeat questions you already have reliable data on. Pick up where you left off and keep filling in the picture
The Mom Test: how to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everybody is lying to you
Always pre-plan the 3 most important things you want to learn from any given type of person
The Mom Test: how to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everybody is lying to you
You’re searching for the truth, not trying to be right.
The Mom Test: how to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everybody is lying to you
You should be terrified of at least one of the questions you’re asking in every conversation
The Mom Test: how to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everybody is lying to you
You can’t learn anything useful unless you’re willing to spend a few minutes shutting up (even if you have something really smart to say)
The Mom Test: how to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everybody is lying to you
Rule of thumb: Anyone will say your idea is great if you’re annoying enough about it.
The Mom Test: how to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everybody is lying to you
National Academy of Engineering that asked people if they wanted to be engineers: Girls were twice as likely as boys to say no. But when asked if they would like to design a safe water system, save the rainforest, or use DNA to solve crimes, the girls answered yes
The STEM Gender Gap: Encouraging Girls to Persist in Science and Math | Edutopia
girls had better grades in higher-level math, but overall had scored slightly lower on the admissions test, leading to lower admission rates. This is not because girls are worse at math, but may be because they guess less—a disadvantage on a multiple-choice test—and perform better with open-ended answers, according to the study
The STEM Gender Gap: Encouraging Girls to Persist in Science and Math | Edutopia