Jinay Shah
Software Engineer

Our circle of influence shapes who we become, and I’m intentional about mine. While I enjoy meeting friends in the city every week, my free time is predominantly devoted to consuming content from i...

Out of the hundreds of hours I spent consuming online content, these are some of the best pieces of content for SaaS (Software as a Service). I found these to be the best ROI for my time. Watching...

Shifting from Perfection to Getting Things Done While diving into the world of business through podcasts, my outlook on side projects and products changed. Just a few months ago, I was all about do...

Over the past six months, I have spent countless hours listening to podcasts and have come to the realization that successful business owners are just regular people. Regular people with an incredi...

Road trip in India Road trip in Europe Road trip in Canada Road trip in the USA Stay at the most expensive place in Santorini Stay at Villa Honegg, Switzerland See Northern Lights ...

These are some new additions to my subscription list. My First Million - Two smart and funny guys discussing business ideas and analyzing other businesses. Hosts are quite funny, likable and ar...

First Email The hiring manager reached out to me on LinkedIn for a Austin, Texas job position. The job description was simple and straight to the point, no BS. I was happy they reached out but didn...

Software Engineering Filtering criteria - “How useful is this for my SaaS?” Building Microservices - Breadth of topics, standard practices and good for finding unknown unknowns Designing Data In...

This is another ELI5 style explainer of how I trade options. I’ll go through covered calls and call credit spreads in this one. Let’s jump straight into the explanation. Imagine I have a stock wor...

I’ve used some of these resources and have plans to use the rest. I think it’s important to build large/complex systems from scratch to truly internalize software engineering concepts. Building rea...

Mario Carrion Mario has a comprehensive set of videos related to software architecture and design patterns, all focusing on Go. His videos are byte-sized and are easy to consume during a quick bre...

I will retire on Sep 02, 2027. People often ask me if I’m crazy and wonder what I’ll do after retiring. I have a long list of meaningful things I plan to do. I have described some of them here. Thi...

Khan Academy I recommend watching Finance and Capital Markets in particular. That section covers things like interest rates, home loans, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and a lot more. It covers the ...

Why go to another country? I got out of India looking for a better life and opportunities. Canada will be a platform for my reaching financial goals, staying secure, and giving a good life to my pa...

Podcasts are essential to my workflow. They keep me entertained during my chores and walks. And they’re usually interviews with successful people explaining how they did things, so that’s a great e...

I recently defended my Master’s thesis on making behaviour vectors using ML. I’ve genuinely poured all my hard work into learning ML concepts for the past couple of years; I hope that gives some cr...

This perspective is for an international student applying to universities in Canada. You’ll usually get into a university that’s a couple notches lower than a local student with the same resume, al...

Plan no longer valid now. Check out the $100M post.

I’ve been learning and trading options for a couple of years now. It was virtual back when I didn’t have the money to do it. Now, I have some savings enough to make small trades. In this post, I ex...

When I listen I don’t have any particular time in the day just for listening to podcasts. Instead, I listen to them while doing chores like cooking and cleaning. That is effective for making tasks...

This is my attempt to build a complex system, learn new things and share everything along the way. Here are my goals: Build a fairly complex product that can scale Have the best readable code...

My college was a no-name college in the Western part of India. They took up most of the day, from 10 AM to 6 PM and we frequently bunked classes. There wasn’t much work beyond just attending the ma...

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