Manish Sinha – Engineer

COVID-19 has changed several of my habits. Below, I write about which ones that have changed and a prediction on their permanency.
Shopping: I buy > 90% of my non-perishables online. I never liked in-person shopping and I haven’t had a car for twelve years so this trend was already in motion. When COVID hit, I subscribed to Amazon Prime which is big driver behind this percentage...

I just finished Shoe Dog and I loved it. Some reflections:
There’s something so elemental about selling a shoe. It’s basic, it’s a necessity to survive, and it’s something everyone understands. I started my career in technology and have spent a lot of it trying to sell what I build to others. And in some ways...

Recently, I sat down with my friend Tim Wu. He’s a fellow founder who wanted to pick my brain on a couple things when out of the blue, he asked me why I’m working on a startup.
This hit me like a ton of bricks. I’ve been in the game for almost seven years now. I’ve spent more of my career working on startups than not. I forgot about the other, “job job” path. By talking it out, I reminded myself why I do what I do:...

This article is inspired by a podcast with Professor Luis Perez-Breva where he talks about ‘play’. Shout out to my friend Will Sommers for sending it to me.
When we were young, we used to play. Remember?
We used to play with legos and build cars. We used to play with mud and build bridges. We even used to play with food and fly it into our mouths. We didn’t care if we built a crappy lego car or missed entry with a pasta sauce smudged cheek. It was fun...