Recapping my startup journey and lessons learned
Sorry for the extremely generic title – perhaps this post belongs in the sea of Medium posts with waves of similar content. This post is a bit personal so bear with me if it’s a bit sloppy or grammatically insufferable. I recently was able to exit my startup with moderate success – I reached my…
How can we improve SoundCloud?
SoundCloud has been good to me. I discovered a lot of amazing artists and music on SoundCloud. A lot of my favorite artists started off on SoundCloud, with almost no following, and are now performing at events at Coachella / EDC as headliners. I love using SoundCloud but I don’t love how bad the product…
[Challenge] Uber coding challenge
Consider a city where the streets are perfectly laid out to form an infinite square grid. In this city finding the shortest path between two given points (an origin and a destination) is much easier than in other more complex cities. As a new Uber developer, you are tasked to create an algorithm that does…
[PM] Revamp Facebook Events
I like Facebook as a company and enjoy what it builds and provides for users. They don’t usually try very hard to promote their products but most of them succeed because they’re useful and they’re made well. Side note: It’s amazing to see Facebook succeeding in Korea’s market. Growing up in Korea, I was active…
Kanye West – Ultralight Beam
Love this song! The song is in the key of C minor. The song only uses four chords(I-iii-vi-V) that are not EXTREMELY basic, but also not too complex. A chord that is not naturally in the key the song is does add an interesting resolve but it’s noting new in music (12/8 in hip-hop omg…
[PM] Can we make Yelp better?
For this post, I’m going to discuss a feature I’d like to be added on the Android version of Yelp. From what I understand, the Android team on Yelp is short-staffed so updates are rolled out somewhat slowly. Disclosure: I’m not affiliated with Yelp. BIG SIDE NOTE: This is not how a PM process works.…
The future of Android devices
Working at an OEM company and releasing smartphones is one of the most interesting experiences ever. As Hiroshi Lockheimer, an executive member of the Android team @ Google, once wrote on his AMA, “building high-end smartphones is as complex and difficult as making commercial airplanes.” It’s an extremely challenging experience but the end is rewarding…
[Leetcode] 10. Regular Expression Matching
I came across an interesting leetcode problem and decided to solve it in Python (a language I’m not comfortable with) for practice. Here’s the problem: Given an unsorted array, find the maximum difference between the successive elements in its sorted form. Try to solve it in linear time/space. Return 0 if the array contains less…
[Fitness&Nutrition] Weight-gain journey as a PM
In this post, I want to discuss my weight gain journey. I learned a lot from the experience and I thought it’d be useful to share. It generally entails how I was able to healthily gain 35 pounds in 3 months. Note that before I started this process, I thought I was one of those…
