Day 2 of #huntinpublic for a #fintech job GOALS HIT: - 1 post to update my progress - 2 deep-dives on #fintech I admire (Public and tyfone, Inc.) - 3 job applications with tailored cover letters SMALL WINS: 1) First direct invitation to apply A recruiter reached out and said I was

Day 3 of #huntinpublic for a #fintech job GOALS HIT: - 1 post to update my progress - 2 deep-dives on #fintech I admire (Chime and C2FO) - 3 job applications with tailored cover letters --- SMALL WINS: 1) Following through! I didn’t at all feel like doing job search stuff

Day 4 of #huntinpublic for a #fintech job GOALS HIT: - 1 post to update my progress (this 😅) - 2 deep-dives on #fintech I admire (X1 and Xplor) - 3 job applications with tailored cover letters --- SMALL WINS: 1) Managing to have fun One of the applications asked a witty

Day 5 of #huntinpublic for a #fintech job GOALS HIT: - 1 post to update my progress - 2 deep-dives on #fintech I admire (Coinbase 🛡️ and Betterment) - 3 job applications with tailored cover letters --- SMALL WINS: 1) Reconnection The emerging theme of my #huntinpublic

Day 6 of #huntinpublic for a #fintech job GOALS HIT: - 1 post to update my progress - 2 deep-dives into #fintech I admire (Marqeta and Modern Treasury) - 3 job applications with tailored cover letters --- SMALL WINS: 1) Nerding out on fintech I had a chat with the founder

Day 7 of #huntinpublic for a #fintech job (it's a week already 🤯) --- RECAP: The week honestly flew by with much less pain and much more excitement than I thought! All because I sucked it up, locked away my fear of (potential) public embarrassment, and put myself out there

Day 8 of #huntinpublic for a #fintech job DAILY GOALS HIT: ✅ 1 post to update my progress (this 😅) ✅ 2 deep-dives into fintech I admire (Mercury and Monzo 🏦) ✅ 3 job applications with tailored cover letters --- SMALL WIN: Another fun fintech nerd-out session! I got to

🤔 How can entry-level positions require 3 years of experience, in that exact position? What kind of experience are these jobs looking for, like, 3 years of #jobsearch experience? At this point, I'm pretty sure like these listings are just #jobmarket satires, because they are

A friend texted me today and shared that my #huntinpublic campaign inspired her to go for her dream job at a Fortune 500 #healthtech company. She recently secured a full-time job (which is impressive as she, like me, is an international student and work visas can get

Social Serendipity ✨ This accidentally became the theme of my day today. I'm not exactly a social butterfly. I rarely go out for drinks, for coffee, for brunch, etc. When I do, I'm usually quiet and honestly kinda awkward... But my girlfriend dragged me out of my man cave

Day 9 of #huntinpublic for a #fintech job DAILY GOALS HIT: ✅ 1 post to update my progress (this 😅) ✅ 2 deep-dives into fintech I admire (SoFi and socure) ✅ 3 job applications with tailored cover letters --- SMALL WINS 1) Moon Shot 🌕🚀 x.com/wassupTin/stat… 2) Social

Day 10 of #huntinpublic for a #fintech job DAILY GOALS HIT: ✅ 1 post to update my progress (this 😅) ✅ 2 deep-dives into fintech I admire (Square and Stripe) ✅ 3 job applications with tailored cover letters --- INVITATION As always, I want to end with this invitation to

The most interesting jobs are *not* on job boards. They are uncovered through: - coffee chats - radical candor - shared passion - heated debates - musing on markets - public experimentations - intentional idea iterations - picking the brains of risk-takers - unfiltered feedback

Day 11 of #huntinpublic for a #fintech job DAILY GOALS HIT: ✅ 1 post to update my progress (this 🫡) ✅ 2 deep-dives into fintech I admire (@TaxBit and TaxDome) ✅ 3 job applications with tailored cover letters --- SMALL WINS: 1) Note-to-self on the most interesting

Day 12 of #huntinpublic for a #fintech job DAILY GOALS HIT: ✅ 1 post to update my progress (this 🫡) ✅ 2 deep-dives into fintech I admire (@ripple and @rippling) ✅ 3 job applications with tailored cover letters --- UPDATES: 1) Preparing for a phase shift - My #huntinpublic

Day 13 of #huntinpublicfor a #fintech job UPDATE My update is a bit different today. Let me start with these two all-too-familiar questions: Q1: "Are you legally authorized to work in the United States?" Q2: "Will you now, or in the future, require sponsorship for employment

Can LLMs really reason and plan? As someone who uses ChatGPT everyday for almost every reasoning/planning task, I can (anecdotally) say... "No, not really." The LLMeme by Professor Subbarao Kambhampati (కంభంపాటి సుబ్బారావు) perfectly captures my experience! And his post makes this point much more eloquently

The best companies don't sell products. They sell transformations. The product is just a tool that customers use to achieve the transformations they're striving for. Customers don't care about the Fire Flower 🌼 (aka: your product) They care about becoming Fire Mario 🔥 (aka:

I have a documentation joke, but it's non-existent.