Avi Bharwaney

About Me

Hi there! Welcome to the humble abode of my mind's ramblings and thoughts. I wanted to find a place to share my learnings and initially was against the idea of having it available publicly. After much thought though, I realized the benefits of an

Life

Cross-team Documentation

This week, I've been fortunate to identify two key principles. Document everythingBecome a cross-team assetDocument everything For smaller companies / less developed companies (startups included): Most processes and knowledge are not well defined and documented. This is due to lack to time, constant things to

Invest

Banks and Yield Curves

Banks make money from interest rate spreads, relying predominantly on instruments such as the yield curve. They borrow at the short-end, paying out lower interest rates to their lenders (short-term bank deposits), and then lend out to others at the long-end (long-term bank loans,

Projects

Setting up GitPages and Ghost

TL;DR: If you want to set-up an aesthetic blog for nearly free and are comfortable with some basic command line arguments, I recommend a) setting up Ghost for the theme and CMS solution, b) GitPages for free hosting, and c) Namecheap for a

Life

Scalable Knowledge

What is scalable knowledge?When Thomas Edison* developed the light bulb, it lit up the world (pun intended). One invention could be scaled to tremendously impact the lives of so many people, for so long, allowing for increased productivity and development. Photo by zhang

Reading

Lessons from Camus' The Outsider

One of the French-Algerian absurdist philosopher, Albert Camus's most respectable novels, The Outsider / The Stranger is a short, choppy, intriguing piece of philosophical literature. The novel is centered around Mersault, an uncanny protagonist who kills an Arab man a few days after his mother's

Reading

Lessons of organizational fragility from Chinese history

"Let China sleep, for when she awakes, she will shake the world" ~ Napoleon Bonaparte I ended up reading my brother's IB history resource on 20th century Chinese history on one Sunday morning, titled "China: From Empire to People's Republic 1900-49" by Michael

Business

Digital nomads: the next-wave of tourists

Focus: Government strategy, tourism Barbados explores launch of a “digital nomad” visa to allow you to work remotely there 1 year — AdventurelyReady to “work from anywhere” but frustrated with the limited options to do so abroad? Barbados might be coming to your rescue soon!

Reading

The Handmaid's Tale

A snapshot from the Hulu series "The Handmaid's Tale" based on the novelA reflection The story is set in a dystopian future, where breeding issues prevail and the people have returned to the church and religion as the sole power, forming the state of

Life

The Reflexive Project of Self-help

The introduction of a philosophy paper I wrote while studying at UC Berkeley.The self-help genre has always been a popular lot, sharing an appeal similar to one would find with new year’s resolutions. So many individuals attempt at undertaking the “higher learnings”