In 2019, egged on by her teen-age daughter, Zarna Garg went to the West Side Comedy Club to see if she had what it took. Garg has now spent much of the past year opening for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on their national comedy tour.
We have an intern a few hours a week at the office, and I sent him a task I thought would take a few days.
He finished it within minutes.
How?
A simple ChatGPT prompt
Saved me $800 in labor, and had to scramble to get him his next task.
Note to self: convincing immigrant mom to sip on an overpriced cappuccino at an old Italian cafe for the sake of ~romanticizing~ life leads to “please, I beg you, take the MCATs.”
Unplanned live demo to national news conglomerate runs perfectly... another testament to how epic molly and NOX is
Also a beautifully written piece comparing the role friends serve with the role digital assistants will serve in our lives
When you use NOX, you don’t have to explain yourself.
It’s not dissimilar to the relationship I have with my sister Lola, who is attuned to the denominators of my life—the important people, values, ambitions.
Parents taught me that the more shots you take, the less afraid you are of rejection
Run an experiment, submit an application, cold email someone you admire and move on to the next to-do
Mindset of abundance saves me from overthinking and perfectionism
Introducing Paradigm – a reimagined workspace with AI at its core.
Centered around the primitive of a spreadsheet, Paradigm puts swarms of intelligent agents at your fingertips.
The real power of Paradigm comes with scale: imagine having tens of thousands of interns working for
I was one of those kids who wasn’t allowed to go camping, so I skewered marshmallows with leftover Chinese takeout chopsticks and cooked them over the stove and tbh, it shows
Just played pickleball with three men
Two stanford dropout founders and a business school professor who mentors them
If you’re confident playing sports, it’s a cheat code, esp as a woman
You get invites to the “less formal” meetings (often the more important meetings anyways)
A computer science degree does not necessarily correlate with a career as a software engineer
I met a stand-up comedian (shoutout
@lennymarcusnyc
) and a patent lawyer who both studied systems in college — turns out my favorite sci-fi author did too!
In yoga teacher training, I learned that physical pain is often a reliable narrator for your mental state
“My back hurts” and “I feel really anxious” have a lot in common
Turns out, a good stretch can release things your body holds onto that your brain has not processed yet
I have a sinus infection, so doctor told
@ZarnaGarg
to buy a humidifier
Mom did not want to buy a humidifier
Instead, she built her own humidifier with a pot of boiling water, towel enclave to preserve steam, and repeated “INHALE THE HOT AIR”
It’s 6am and I just landed at JFK—
There is a pigeon flying around baggage claim and random guy welcomed me into the elevator only to cut in front of me in the taxi line minutes later
Feels good to be home 🥰
The protest to validate female feelings goes back to c. 600 BC.
In my Sappho seminar, I learned about the debate over a woman named Helen.
Helen left her husband and children to be with the king of Troy, sparking the Trojan War.
Male poets (ex: Alcaeus) blamed Helen for the
@ZarnaGarg
is booked on holidays so when I’m on break I sell her merch
Merch tables keep the show rolling and build crowds/community organically
Everyone likes a t-shirt, but signable posters sell surprisingly well (high margins)
Our best selling merch is… a selfie with Zarna
In the Indian community, there is a huge emphasis placed on STEM — science, tech, engineering, math
But I take Classics classes where you study history, religion, philosophy from the ancient times (pls don’t tell my parents)
Dad and I made a deal
He gives up alcohol for a week (he only drinks half a glass a day anyways)
In exchange, I manage my finances
So far I have:
- gave the gov’t $ for 52 weeks using
@USTreasury
direct account
- applied for a credit card
- invested in a
@Wealthfront
I wish someone had told me this before I went to college
You can hang out with friends and not drink and not party
The “college experience” is what you want it to be, not what movies tell you it should be
Last night we doodled based on AI generated prompts
Tbh it was a blast
Academic burnout in college forces me to reprioritize
I go to that student fashion show, grab a meal with a friend I haven’t seen since freshman yr, go to office hours to talk to my professor about life not class
I end up doing the things I actually want to do before I graduate
The legacy we chase, emotions we don’t understand, dreams we strive for
These are the same questions humans have been asking since ancient times
Looking to their writing can offer us reassurance and perspective on today
lost points on physics hw because “diagram of torque about a point (p) included drawing of a giraffe not mentioned in problem statement”
without a riveting plotline featuring an underestimated giraffe who, against all odds, rotates the beam successfully, how would one solve it?
Me: “mom, I’m locking my phone in a box and camping this weekend to destress before finals.”
Mom: *silence*
30 mins later: WhatsApps me links to every horror story related to camping on the internet.
Mom: “I fed you fresh vegetables your whole life, go do the camping then.”
Lost my headphones and currently on the stairmaster alone with my thoughts
“Tech sucks” is all fun and games until I’m hitting cardio without Rihanna blasting in my ears
Is this how Newton discovered gravity or am I just GenZ and can’t handle lack of constant stimulation
Launching a project or writing a post in public is scariest the first time
When you run an experiment with full conviction and it fails, you realize—wait, that wasn’t so bad!
I think fear of “messing up” is more suffocating than act of messing up with excitement to try again
As a classics student, sometimes I wonder what Homer—who called words 'winged' for their weapon-like power to break through 'defensive barrier of teeth'—would say to little brother who won’t stop saying “scibbidy”
Friend stopped me when I began to say I “have to do…”
She said: You “get to do” you don’t “have to do”
No one is happier than the person who is simply grateful to be doing
💫
@mollycantillon
Me: “Wait there are other fantasy, strategy board games besides Catan?”
Classics Professor: “That’s like saying you can read Harry Potter in just one ancient language?”
When your code is breaking
Or you fail your physics midterm
Or a TA in office hours is sassy with you for asking basic questions
There is one person who prevents you from dropping your engineering major
Guard this person WITH YOUR LIFE
@shiravioli
🙇♀️🤝
Turns out chivalry is a man remembering to turn off his Tinder notifications, not Flynn Rider teaming up with a horse to defeat a witch to the tune “Mother Knows Best”
It’s 6am and I just landed at JFK—
There is a pigeon flying around baggage claim and random guy welcomed me into the elevator only to cut in front of me in the taxi line minutes later
Feels good to be home 🥰
You read about the rise and fall of military leaders’ egos when faced with great triumph and great failure
You discover random facts. Ex: Sappho invented her own word to describe love in Greek “sweetbitter”
If there’s one thing about me, it’s that I love a tues morning transition from building LLM chatbot for cardiologist to insisting Sappho’s fragments offer framework to understand John Coltrane’s chord choices
Did someone say… getting my tuition’s worth?
This morning I was rejected from being a tour guide
This afternoon I was accepted to be a RA (residential assistant) in my sorority house
Both are on campus jobs that I applied to for next year
The more shots you take, the better your odds of success!
Parents taught me that the more shots you take, the less afraid you are of rejection
Run an experiment, submit an application, cold email someone you admire and move on to the next to-do
Mindset of abundance saves me from overthinking and perfectionism
Walking with a Philz coffee and rom-com inspired pep in my step to Huang Basement— weekly “hi guys, happy monday!!!” did not land well among sleep deprived classmates at operating systems office hours table
Saw beautiful bird, translated a bit of Catullus 3
Passer mortuus est meae puellae,
The sparrow of my girlfriend is dead,
Qui it per iter tenebricosum
it goes along the shadowy path
illuc unde negant
to that place where they say
redire quemquam.
that no one returns from.
You learn Cicero was born with no political power but rose to consul (highest rank in Roman gov’t) because he was an excellent communicator and storyteller
Caught up with a friend who’s a recruited athlete
She was training to compete a skill that’s never been attempted nationally
“I was in the best shape of my career”
She tore a muscle in training and has to sit this season out
Athlete or not, reminder to listen your body
I hold Disney movies liable for causing “take this with a grain of salt” to not prevent me from wholly believing the exaggerated, fantasy version of the truth
@VijarKohli
@ZarnaGarg
It was my idea to take pictures and make a post! She does stuff like this so frequently that I think if a camera was on her 24/7 it would all be content 😂
@radbackwards
@mollycantillon
As Molly’s defense attorney (law education includes: translating cicero’s court speeches and an admiration of judge judy), j wanted to chime here
If molly stole dar’s car and SF broke into dar’s car, then would it not be molly’s car (transitive property, duh)