Shamoon Siddiqui

Part time technologist. Part time dreamer.

Most recommended

Why your previous developer was terrible

And why your current one seems so amazing

Shamoon Siddiqui4 min read

How to get a job by failing

Getting a job can be a tough, nerve wracking, stressful, ulcer inducing experience.

Shamoon Siddiqui7 min read

How to stick to something when all you want to do is stop

Perhaps the single hardest thing to do is to stick to doing something for some period of time.

Shamoon Siddiqui3 min read

How Venture Capitalists ruin Innovation

My apologies Fred Wilson, Paul Graham, Mark Andreessen, Peter Thiel and the rest.

Shamoon Siddiqui7 min read

Collections edited by Shamoon Siddiqui

Autocorrecting Systems

Recommended by Shamoon Siddiqui

Dear OOO’ers (out of office automated repliers): STOP.

Over the past couple of days, I’ve received dozens of OOO’s. Forwarded from entrepreneurs, in response to our emails, even email threads of…

nihal mehta1 min read

post birthday hangover.

my double major way back in college (graduated upenn in 1999) was computer science & philosophy.

nihal mehta1 min read

Work-from-home Wednesdays

I was talking with my friend Eugene Kim the other day and he told me he’s been taking Wednesdays off.

Dave Gray1 min read