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Dheera Vuppala

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  • Build a habit, learn a skill, create something, whatever it is that turns your default stance on challenges from “that seems hard” to “I can figure it out.” Create proof you can do hard things
    Proof You Can Do Hard Things - Nat Eliason's Newsletter
  • Our self-image is composed of historical evidence of our abilities. The more hard things you push yourself to do, the more competent you will see yourself to be
    Proof You Can Do Hard Things - Nat Eliason's Newsletter
  • And proof that you are someone who can do them is one of the most useful assets you can have on your life resume
    Proof You Can Do Hard Things - Nat Eliason's Newsletter
  • It’s to prove you can do hard things.
    Proof You Can Do Hard Things - Nat Eliason's Newsletter
  • Seek out those intersections, and you’ll have found a language model application in healthcare.
    01 Overview
  • That makes them exceptionally powerful in healthcare, because healthcare might be the industry vertical with the highest intersection of natural language and rules-based systems.
    01 Overview
  • Can you talk about the role with excitement without talking about what it is not? Without talking about how it’s different than your previous relationship? Are you excited about the future or running away from the past or the present?
    Choosing your next job - by Molly Graham - Lessons
  • People make THE WORST career decisions when they are unhappy in their current roles. They just want to get out of the relationship, but for one reason or another (usually fear, insecurity, or financial reasons), they can’t leave unless they know where they are going.
    Choosing your next job - by Molly Graham - Lessons
  • Sometimes I’m inexplicably attracted to a job that looks nothing like what I’ve said I want to do next, but if I think about the stool legs, usually I can figure out why the job sounds like fun. It also helps me realize why certain jobs that seem like they SHOULD be so fun just don’t sound good to me.
    Choosing your next job - by Molly Graham - Lessons
  • People: for me, this is people I love working with and look forward to mentoring or learning from every day. The every day part is important to me -- the majority of people I work with have to fall in to this bucket. I have to be surrounded by people that inspire me either because I can learn from them or because I know I make them better. When a significant relationship at work loses this quality, it can really affect my happiness at work
    Choosing your next job - by Molly Graham - Lessons
  • I’ve found that people that know you well are always going to be the ones that find you the phase 2 roles that are “shaped like you”. People that don’t know you are always going to offer you the job you just had
    Choosing your next job - by Molly Graham - Lessons
  • What was your favorite thing you did in the last 3 months? What project or experience would you do over and over again if you could? What things (projects, activities, etc.) made the days or hours fly by? Were there moments when you felt at your best? What were things that felt draining to you where the hours or days just crawled by? What were tasks or activities that you’d be thrilled to never have to do again?
    Choosing your next job - by Molly Graham - Lessons
  • I’m a big believer that career decisions in your 20s should be focused on learning about yourself. You learn about yourself by taking the next job that sounds fun and challenging. You learn about yourself by failing at things. You learn about yourself by taking the wrong job and having to undo it. I see too many folks early in their career striving for fancy titles, acclaim, and power without a deep understanding of who they are and what makes them tick.
    Choosing your next job - by Molly Graham - Lessons
  • happiness AND exceptionalism (being great at what you do) in work comes from the intersection of what you love doing and what you are uniquely good at
    Choosing your next job - by Molly Graham - Lessons
  • My basic belief is that happiness at work is fundamental to high performance.
    Choosing your next job - by Molly Graham - Lessons
  • Juul went from $38 billion in 2018 to $12 billion in 2020. Employees who exercised their options at the higher valuations fell out of the money (and overpaid in taxes).
    Equity Guide for Employees at Fast-growing Companies
  • Investing in your startup therefore comes with a significant opportunity cost: you could deploy this same capital into other opportunities (e.g., public stocks or real estate) that could generate steady, dependable returns over the course of those 5-10 years. You’re really looking to come up with a projected, probabilistic return on investment for exercising your stock options (and compare that to your broader financial picture).
    Equity Guide for Employees at Fast-growing Companies
  • That's the key: consistency. People who do great things don't get a lot done every day. They get something done, rather than nothing.
    How to Do Great Work
  • Try to finish what you start, though, even if it turns out to be more work than you expected. Finishing things is not just an exercise in tidiness or self-discipline. In many projects a lot of the best work happens in what was meant to be the final stage
    How to Do Great Work
  • This is one case where the young have an advantage. They're more optimistic, and even though one of the sources of their optimism is ignorance, in this case ignorance can sometimes beat knowledge.
    How to Do Great Work
  • It's usually a mistake to lie to yourself if you want to do great work, but this is one of the rare cases where it isn't. When I'm reluctant to start work in the morning, I often trick myself by saying "I'll just read over what I've got so far." Five minutes later I've found something that seems mistaken or incomplete, and I'm off.
    How to Do Great Work
  • hey discover what to work on as a result of a chance meeting, or by reading a book they happen to pick up. So you need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious. Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions.
    How to Do Great Work
  • Some people get lucky and do guess correctly, but the rest will find themselves scrambling diagonally across tracks laid down on the assumption that everyone does.
    How to Do Great Work
  • Most people who do great work have a mix, and the more you have of the former, the harder it will be to decide what to do.
    How to Do Great Work
  • The three most powerful motives are curiosity, delight, and the desire to do something impressive. Sometimes they converge, and that combination is the most powerful of all.
    How to Do Great Work
  • There's a kind of excited curiosity that's both the engine and the rudder of great work. It will not only drive you, but if you let it have its way, will also show you what to work on
    How to Do Great Work
  • Some kinds of work you end up doing may not even exist yet. So while some people know what they want to do at 14, most have to figure it out
    How to Do Great Work
  • outsourced underwriting, claims processing
    Payvidors, Unbundled: Opportunities in Healthcare Fintech | Andreessen Horowitz
  • Companies aiming to address the shortcomings of insurance products have to be very deliberate about the initial build required to launch a viable solution; state and federal regulations can be strict, necessitating licensure and non-trivial capital reserves to launch a health plan. We also believe that a modern health insurance business that lacks core competencies in value-based care delivery will find it challenging to drive strong unit economics over time, so having a strong clinical muscle is key as well.
    Payvidors, Unbundled: Opportunities in Healthcare Fintech | Andreessen Horowitz
  • For example, if you’re buying a car, an auto lender might use a credit score that places more emphasis on your payment history when it comes to auto loans. In addition, lenders may also use a blended credit score from the three major credit bureaus.
    How Are Credit Scores Calculated? | Equifax®
  • Credit scores provided by the three major credit bureaus -- Equifax, Experian and TransUnion -- may also vary because not all lenders and creditors report information to all three major credit bureaus. While many do, others may report to two, one or none at all. In addition, the credit scoring models among the three major credit bureaus are different, as well as those used by other companies that provide credit scores, such as FICO or VantageScore.
    How Are Credit Scores Calculated? | Equifax®
  • Repeating something seemingly mundane for many years turns it into something special and transcendent. Working on a project over several years — not necessarily continuously but never formally quitting — means the ideas can make their way into your subconscious and your conversations in ways that can be magical. The most common failure mode of startups isn’t that dramatic, it’s just founders who gradually run out of motivation and quit, no different than stopping midway through your run. My learning from running a startup is that it’s important to have a near-religious persistence to not quit,…
    Endurance | Shreyas Hariharan
  • Action generates information, longevity creates meaning.
    Endurance | Shreyas Hariharan
  • Pavilion’s engine automatically tailors results around what a buyer can use (i.e. compliance) and what they’d like to use (i.e diversity goals) so they don’t have to read through the details of the contract themselves.
    Why You Should Join Pavilion - by Eric Zhou and Usman Hanif
  • As a result, procurement professionals still mostly find agreements to piggyback by emailing colleagues from other cities or posting on forums asking for help. 73% of procurement professionals still rely on “word of mouth and networking” alongside basic web searches for since there’s no “Google” for cooperative contracts.
    Why You Should Join Pavilion - by Eric Zhou and Usman Hanif
  • As a practice, piggybacking is both faster (traditional bidding processes take 4-24 months) and cheaper (smaller governments can leverage better rates their larger counterparts have negotiated).
    Why You Should Join Pavilion - by Eric Zhou and Usman Hanif
  • As a result, optimizing public procurement might be the single highest-leverage action there is to help small businesses, government agencies, and the broader economy. Building a way to make procurement less lengthy and labor-intense (while keeping the same rigor and transparency) would be a unique opportunity to achieve both broad social impact and incredible financial upside
    Why You Should Join Pavilion - by Eric Zhou and Usman Hanif
  • The formality of this process prevents corruption and wasteful spending, but it also means it usually takes 4 to 24 months for agencies to get what they need.
    Why You Should Join Pavilion - by Eric Zhou and Usman Hanif
  • (i.e. over $25,000 for goods, over $65,000 for public works in Palo Alto)
    Why You Should Join Pavilion - by Eric Zhou and Usman Hanif
  • And it’s with a lower-case a that we should start, online, in person, and anywhere where humans live and think.
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  • We are constantly caught between the two extreme limits of our ambition and our unconquerable Dunbar number. Humanity has had eras of exploration and joy, and eras of war, plunder, and the Taco Bell Fried Chicken Taco Shell).
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  • Look at The Correspondent, or Open Culture, or Brain Pickings, or thousands of other small projects that have good communities around them. We need more of those, and we need people to fund them, and for them to be built with communication in mind from the ground up.
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  • But, I am embarrassed to say that, while I know what some guy in a newsroom in New York thinks about what’s going on in Russia, I have no clue what the names of all the people on my street are.
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  • But a good place to start in the United States is - and I hate to sound like a public radio host from the 1990s - to care about local stuff. We have to act, first, within our own communities, in a pretty manual way in order to rebuild the connections we broke while growing. We need to better understand our neighbors. We as real citizens should be doing more local things: reading and supporting local news, trying to see what local problems are politically, and generally trying to understand the people close to us.
    Good things don't scale | ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰
  • But that’s absolutely not the right answer, because there are a lot of beautiful things to gain from heterogeneity. For example, when you do the internet correctly, things like this happen:
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  • Small social networks are good, because the level of trust between people is high, and easy to rely on.
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  • What if you make a mistake at work - does everyone in the country know about it? That kind of closeness, particularly at the political level (which many say was a factor in the corruption due to the nepotistic, kleptocratic nature of the political relationships) fascinated me and terrified me.
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  • it is just impossible for me to imagine living in a country that gets by on the bare minimum. What if you have a rare medical condition (fly to Europe, it turns out)? Or your favorite salon is not open?
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  • Do they have heart surgeons, speech therapists, or yoga teachers?’ I wondered.’”
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  • Iceland is now diversified away from its original industries of aluminum production and fishing – although, thankfully, not too far. Some of the the best fresh fish I’ve ever had was in Reykjavik.
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