Rupok Ghosh

soft eng @shopify | prev @withdelphi @EpicenterHQ

[Rupok Ghosh @rupokghosh291]

Ambition + effort compound fast.

If you’re in school, highly ambitious, and willing to work hard, getting a job is not the hard part.

Email startup founders.
Tell them exactly how you can create value.

Most will bet on you.

[Rupok Ghosh @rupokghosh291]

@PostAIWisdom @kirtandopamine it's because the process is broken.

it should always be recruiters recruiting and reaching out to talent - the "applying" process in itself is broken imo

[Rupok Ghosh @rupokghosh291]

recently i was introduced to the idea of questioning everything.

not the person, but the idea; not merely what is said, but why it is said. curiosity may not always lead us to answers, but the search itself teaches us how to think, how to see, and how to grow.

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@tpypan @Shopify aura

[Rupok Ghosh @rupokghosh291]

on an individual level, the ability to work deeply is one of the biggest moats you can have.

it is very easy to build a habit around shallow work. replying, checking, switching contexts, constantly doing something. it feels productive because there is always visible movement.

but very little great work is produced without long periods of uninterrupted focus.

the ability to sit with one hard problem for hours, without needing novelty or distraction, is increasingly rare. and because it is rare, it is increasingly valuable.

[Rupok Ghosh @rupokghosh291]

met some of the most cracked engineers from all over Canada this term at @Shopify

[Hamza Ammar @HamzakAmmar]

Finished @Shopify, does this mean I have to go back to Waterloo 🫩

[Rupok Ghosh @rupokghosh291]

@emtalas i still haven't emotionally recovered from the thousands splendid suns

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@hehevc6834 i am preaching

[Rupok Ghosh @rupokghosh291]

your network is your net worth
your network is your net worth
your network is your net worth
your network is your net worth
your network is your net worth

[Rupok Ghosh @rupokghosh291]

today, a freshman asked me why college does not teach what the industry actually uses.

i told him the tools are downstream. school teaches you to recognize patterns and decompose problems, and once you can do that, you can pickup tools on the go.

[Rupok Ghosh @rupokghosh291]

never let an arbitrary number stop you from starting something or being ambitious.

- jack ma founded alibaba at 35
- j.k. rowling published harry potter at 31
- harrison ford was still working as a carpenter before star wars at 34
- samuel l. jackson didn’t get his major breakthrough until 42

the most important thing is to stay ambitious and keep working :)

[Rupok Ghosh @rupokghosh291]

@0xmoalo @withdelphi we need to buy the @delphi user btw

[Rupok Ghosh @rupokghosh291]

don't serve me the food, serve me the ingredients

[Naval @naval]

Don’t send me the report, just send me the prompt.

[Rupok Ghosh @rupokghosh291]

"let's hold off merging till monday morning in case we break prod"
breaks prod on a monday morning. well done github :)

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@devchaliha is this larp?

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@EndorsiVal say ong

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@0xjimmc i second that

[Rupok Ghosh @rupokghosh291]

i have noticed a quiet arrogance in tech. people who treat their own domain as the center of gravity and everyone else's work as a footnote.

importance is not a property of problems, it is a property of perspective. the person who dismisses your work has simply never stood where you stand.

curiosity about other people's problems is a far rarer skill than solving your own.

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@_mithils @sama @yaxpatel_ @itsishand tuff

[Rupok Ghosh @rupokghosh291]

highly recommend!

[Bella @nazzari]

I can get your name and experience in front of 400+ startups by tonight: https://t.co/W7uBxXVP15