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Anant Jain

Hi! I’m Anant. Welcome to my little home on the web.

I'm part of the engineering team at Brex. Earlier, I co-founded two startups: Compose Labs (a patent-pending experience that lets you automatically generate videos; acquired by Brex in March 2020) and EagerPanda (knowledge sharing and publishing platform with a realtime, multiplayer editor with version control built-in. Think Google Docs meets Medium meets GitHub).

I love building things, and have worked all across the engineering and product design stack. You can reach me via email or DM me on Twitter.

Tech & Startups:

1.

Collaboration startups

March 1, 2020 • 1 min read

2.

Free Startup Ideas

February 17, 2020 • 4 min read

3.

Five reasons for China’s emerging dominance in Artificial Intelligence

August 1, 2018 • 3 min read

4.

Is Instagram’s IGTV the new media format creators have been waiting for?

June 22, 2018 • 3 min read

6.

We Need to Start Afresh with Online Education

June 6, 2018 • 6 min read

7.

Regulate Facebook?

March 30, 2018 • 1 min read

8.

Thoughts on the “new” Snapchat

November 30, 2017 • 3 min read

9.

Virtual Reality

May 27, 2017 • 1 min read

10.

Oh Snap!

May 12, 2017 • 4 min read

11.

Types of communications

August 22, 2016 • 1 min read

Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence:

1.

The Intuition behind Adversarial Attacks on Neural Networks

March 31, 2019 • 6 min read

2.

Breaking neural networks with adversarial attacks

February 9, 2019 • 6 min read

3.

Five reasons for China’s emerging dominance in Artificial Intelligence

August 1, 2018 • 3 min read

User Experience and Design:

1.

Get the basics right: how to design your site’s navigation, search, and homepage

June 27, 2018 • 5 min read

2.

16 UX Design tools from the Sprint Process

June 27, 2018 • 7 min read

3.

UX Design for Developers

June 20, 2018 • 6 min read

4.

The well-kept secret behind great UX: Usability Testing

June 8, 2018 • 4 min read

5.

A Beginner’s Guide to Rapid Prototyping

June 4, 2018 • 6 min read

6.

Human Experience Design

May 24, 2017 • 2 min read

Tech Talks:

1.

ML4ALL 2019

April 29, 2019 • 1 min read

2.

NextCon 2019

January 18, 2019 • 1 min read

3.

Mozilla Festival, 2018

October 28, 2018 • 1 min read

Side Projects:

1.

MNMLNWS (Minimal News)

February 23, 2020 • 1 min read

2.

Bootcamp Report

September 1, 2019 • 1 min read

3.

Contribute to OSS

August 15, 2017 • 1 min read

4.

Antonyst

June 1, 2016 • 1 min read

Interviews:

1.

The CEO Library

May 3, 2019 • 1 min read

2.

Inspirery

March 14, 2019 • 1 min read

3.

Ideamensch

March 8, 2019 • 1 min read

Book Lists:

1.

Books read and listened to in 2020 (so far)

April 1, 2020 • 1 min read

2.

Books read and listened to in 2019

December 31, 2019 • 2 min read

3.

Books read and listened to in 2018

December 31, 2018 • 1 min read

4.

Books read and listened to in 2017

December 31, 2017 • 1 min read

5.

Books read and listened to in 2016

December 31, 2016 • 1 min read

6.

Books read and listened to in 2015

December 31, 2015 • 1 min read

7.

Books read in 2014 and 2013

December 31, 2014 • 1 min read

Book Reviews:

1.

Skin in The Game

December 23, 2018 • 3 min read

2.

Never Split the Difference

December 16, 2018 • 6 min read

3.

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

December 9, 2018 • 1 min read

4.

Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success

December 2, 2018 • 1 min read

5.

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

November 25, 2018 • 3 min read

6.

It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work

November 18, 2018 • 2 min read

7.

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

November 11, 2018 • 3 min read

8.

When Breath Becomes Air

November 4, 2018 • 2 min read

9.

The Bed of Procrustes

October 28, 2018 • 3 min read

10.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

October 21, 2018 • 3 min read

11.

Lean in: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

October 14, 2018 • 3 min read

12.

Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

October 7, 2018 • 3 min read

13.

Bad Blood: Secret and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

September 30, 2018 • 2 min read

14.

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

September 23, 2018 • 1 min read

15.

Algorithms to Live By

September 14, 2018 • 7 min read

16.

Writing to Learn

September 9, 2018 • 2 min read

17.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

September 2, 2018 • 3 min read

18.

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

August 26, 2018 • 2 min read

19.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

August 19, 2018 • 4 min read

20.

Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

August 12, 2018 • 5 min read

21.

Measure What Matters

August 5, 2018 • 2 min read

22.

Show Your Work

July 29, 2018 • 4 min read

23.

Steal Like an Artist

July 22, 2018 • 2 min read

24.

10% Happier

July 15, 2018 • 3 min read

25.

On Writing Well

July 8, 2018 • 3 min read

26.

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

July 1, 2018 • 2 min read

27.

How Will You Measure Your Life?

June 24, 2018 • 4 min read

28.

Outliers: The Story of Success

June 17, 2018 • 2 min read

30.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

June 3, 2018 • 4 min read

31.

Principles: Life and Work

May 27, 2018 • 5 min read

32.

Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business

May 20, 2018 • 4 min read

33.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

May 13, 2018 • 3 min read

34.

Deep Work

May 6, 2018 • 4 min read

35.

So Good They Can’t Ignore You

April 29, 2018 • 3 min read

36.

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

April 22, 2018 • 4 min read

37.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

April 15, 2018 • 7 min read

38.

Rocket Surgery Made Easy

April 8, 2018 • 3 min read

39.

Don’t Make Me Think

April 1, 2018 • 5 min read

40.

The Power of Habit

March 25, 2018 • 5 min read

41.

The Power of Moments

March 18, 2018 • 3 min read

42.

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

March 11, 2018 • 2 min read

43.

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

March 4, 2018 • 3 min read

44.

The Selfish Gene

February 25, 2018 • 4 min read

45.

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

February 18, 2018 • 2 min read

46.

Stumbling on Happiness

February 11, 2018 • 2 min read

47.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

February 4, 2018 • 6 min read

48.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

January 28, 2018 • 3 min read

49.

The Design of Everyday Things

January 21, 2018 • 3 min read

50.

Managing Oneself

January 15, 2018 • 3 min read

Fitness:

1.

100 hours of Headspace

March 8, 2020 • 1 min read

2.

The Slow Carb Diet

June 25, 2018 • 5 min read

3.

18 Months Apart: What Marathon Training Looks Like

November 23, 2017 • 1 min read

4.

Losing 70+ pounds over a year

May 6, 2017 • 7 min read

5.

Lease vs. ownership

June 12, 2016 • 1 min read

Art:

1.

The CommonLounge Logo

March 1, 2020 • 1 min read

2.

There is no such thing as computer-generated “art”

September 12, 2019 • 2 min read

3.

Multiples of 11

December 15, 2017 • 1 min read

4.

Filters of Instagram

November 21, 2017 • 1 min read

Miscellaneous:

1.

On meta-illusions

July 21, 2017 • 1 min read

2.

Alternative to space travel

July 14, 2017 • 1 min read

3.

Architecture

June 18, 2017 • 2 min read

4.

The State of Flux

May 28, 2017 • 1 min read

5.

San Francisco

August 4, 2016 • 1 min read

6.

Two tales of retargeting ads

March 14, 2015 • 4 min read