Today, the average home seller pays 5–6% commission to brokers for selling their homes. For context, this means that if you’re selling a $1M home, your broker just got $60,000 for selling it. Up until a few years ago, most residential real estate was actually still physical. You would get…

When someones says cloud computing, we usually think about Google, like uploading our pics to Google Photos for backup. To the common person, the cloud is simply a way to synchronize their data or accounts across multiple devices. Yet, the cloud can permanently revolutionize personal computing. Why now? Historically, enterprises will typically…

I remember 7–8 years ago, I read a Quora post on some tech employee working remotely from Bali as a freelancer and people in the comments wishing they could do the same. At the time, it seemed crazy, but it may be all too common soon. The Covid-19 pandemic has…

It seems like the second you get into college, everyone has one question: what do you want to do? How are you supposed to know? Did a flip switch as soon as you opened the acceptance letter? This is a very daunting period of life, often with little guidance. While…

I recently read a tweet thread from Shaan Puri, founder of Bebo(acquired by Twitch), about how Clubhouse will fail after Covid. This was an interesting take because Clubhouse, an invite-only audio social platform, is the hot social platform right now (it raised $100M at a $1B valuation!!). However, this question…

The recent winter catastrophe in Texas has exposed major flaws in the US energy grid. Millions of Texans went weeks without electricity or ended up paying obscene energy bills — to the tune of $7000 — to get heating for their homes. Largely, America’s entire energy ecosystem is dependent on…

In the first class of my undergraduate career, my Economics teacher posed an interesting hypothetical question. If you could pay $300,000 and get your degree today then go ahead and do whatever you want in life, would you take it? …

Wait, what’s an NFT? A non-fungible token, or NFT, is basically a digital asset that isn’t interchangeable. Imagine buying a digital painting, that would be an NFT. Ok, why would anyone buy a digital painting? I had the same skepticism about a month ago until I realized this is the…

A group of Reddit traders almost bankrupted a multi-billion dollar hedge fund. This is a hilarious story, but it also showcases a real problem. Retail investors are tired of being on the losing side of the market. Wall Street is notorious for manipulating markets or having access to special trades…