Published in The Better Magazine·Updated Oct 14, 2020Member-onlyMemento Mori, Remember You Must DieThe only way to feel alive, every minute of your life. — Memento mori is a Latin phrase that translates to remember you must die. It is a reminder of the inevitability of death. It is a reminder that we are all just mortals. …Memento Mori6 min readMemento Mori6 min read
Published in The Better Magazine·Oct 13, 2018Member-onlyWhy Web Sliders Suck And 5 Ways To Fix Them.Sliders are like fake tits. “Sliders totally suck and no one should ever use it. It’s like fake tits. It looks good from far but the experience is totally horrible. Just avoid it! There are hundreds of other ways to design your site without sliders and get way better conversion! “ That was my response…UX5 min readUX5 min read
Published in The Better Magazine·Sep 12, 2018Member-onlyLawyers Are Just Umpires.Don’t assume that they are playing the game with you. — If your business is a baseball game and you are the star player of your team, your lawyer is just the umpire. In baseball, umpires are responsible with officiating the game, including beginning and ending the game, enforcing the rules of…Venture Capital5 min readVenture Capital5 min read
Published in The Better Magazine·Oct 25, 2017Member-onlyThe Bastard Child of UX: MicrocopyThe evolution of user experience. Just like how the internet as we know has been evolving, user experience design has been changing as well. Nowadays, most UX designers that I meet are still stuck with the 2010s definition of UX. …UX8 min readUX8 min read
Published in The Better Magazine·Jul 8, 2017Member-onlyDeconstructing WeWork’s Series D Pitch DeckCheck out WeWork’s series D deck used to raise $335 million which valued the company at $5 billion. It’s 38 slides long and has a good level of detail, graphics and analysis in it to make it a good read. www.slideshare.net/AlexanderJarvis/wework-pitch-deck-55170129 My comments on the deck: WeWork is one of the startups that came to…Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
Published in The Better Magazine·Apr 30, 2017Member-onlyHow Uber, Google, Facebook and Other Tech Giants Avoid Paying Billions in Tax?Let’s start with Uber.Uber6 min readUber6 min read
Published in The Better Magazine·Nov 21, 2016The Startup Litmus TestBack in school, you must have learned a simple test to determine if a liquid is acid or alkaline. When dipped in the liquid, blue litmus paper would turn red if the liquid is acidic and vice-a-versa. …Business4 min readBusiness4 min read
Published in The Better Magazine·Nov 15, 2016The Myth Of OriginalityNo one has ever had an original idea. Every idea worth having has been had thousands of times already. All the great subjects, all the great ideas, have been had already. What can be original is your unique perspective on it. It means that trying to come up with some…Ideas3 min readIdeas3 min read
Sep 26, 2016Netflix Hack (Quick Hacks)TL:DR Want to stop Netflix from suggesting you crappy movies because you tested some? Create a ‘testing’ profile and use it when you are doing this. Sometimes you want to watch a movie on Netflix because it’s so terrible that it has to be seen to be believed, but then…Productivity1 min readProductivity1 min read
Published in The Better Magazine·Aug 23, 2016Ignore The Fucking NewsI have a confession to make. The last time I picked up a newspaper was 3 years ago. The last time I watched the news on TV was 5 years ago — during the financial crisis. I don’t read a single newspaper, offline or online, and I don’t watch any…Media9 min readMedia9 min read
