Category: Blog

  • Deal with Your Shame

    When I discovered that a family friend of mine got into her dream college that is also very prestigious, it was difficult to understand the strange mix of negative emotions I felt. I worried that she would no longer see me, someone a few years her senior and is on the surface a few years…

  • Why I Wanted But Ultimately Stopped Trying to Optimize Everything

    People and, in turn, our world are dominated by intuition. We listen to music and watch films that bring out certain abstract feelings in us. We spend time with people we click with for somewhat inexplicable reasons. We dedicate our careers to what feels right to us and what we care about. Intuition makes up…

  • My Struggles with Prestige

    I’m worried that people look down on me. It’s something that’s strange for me to explicitly write down since I don’t think I currently have a bad sense of self worth. In this arena, I actually feel like I’m lucky because I’ve never felt like anyone was inherently better than me. In fact, whenever I’ve…

  • Transitioning from a $180k Investment Banking Job to an Impact Investing Nonprofit

    I recently quit my investment banking analyst job earning $180k a year to join an impact investing non-profit where I’m earning a typical junior-level nonprofit salary. Surprisingly, it did not take me long to sign the offer letter after I received it. This wasn’t because I thoroughly thought through all the implications of such a…