Episode 8
How to Make Accurate Life Decisions - w/ Utpal
Utpal is a co-founder at Digger, but perhaps more notably, a life-long cricket fanatic. He has played semi-professionally in India and continues to play club cricket in the UK as of May 2024, and has also co-founded The Cricket Revolution, which is a product for cricketers to leverage to get better at the sport.
Who this is for
- You are trying to start something that still feels a little awkward and expensive.
- You would rather hear Utpal's version while the mess is still fresh than get another polished hindsight sermon.
Key takeaways
- Make Accurate Life Decisions - w/ Utpal
- He has played semi-professionally in India and continues to play club cricket in the UK as of May 2024, and has also co-founded The Cricket Revolution, which is a product for cricketers to leverage to get better at the sport.
- We discuss: What it takes to make it as a professional cricketer (generalizable to making it at a pro-level of any sport out there) Applying for and getting accepted for a Masters of Sport-Biomechanics at one of the top universities in the world in that field - Loughborough University, UK Living, conducting research and playing club cricket in the UK Applying for Founders’ Associates positions and what that entails Spearheading growth of a tech start-up company as its co-founder Using a simple “optimizing for most fun” at each decision level in life to get best results In keeping with our theme of learning from someone just two steps ahead instead of an expert.
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Cricket related sport related that that may help me in life so signed up for something called um a masters in sport biome mechanics at lra which is supposed to be the best sport University in the
to be the best sport University in the world has the best sport incubation Center um for for for startups trer builds um looking back at Cricket revolutions app that we were building we
revolutions app that we were building we were building too many things at the same time and I think even at Digger initially we were doing the same thing we were solving multiple problems where
we were solving multiple problems where you know we were taking on secret management we were taking on cicd for terraform we were taking on you know containerization of whichever repo had
containerization of whichever repo had to upload so I guess we were solving like five or six problems and we realized there were multiple points of failure again same realization that I
Show notes
Utpal is a co-founder at Digger, but perhaps more notably, a life-long cricket fanatic. He has played semi-professionally in India and continues to play club cricket in the UK as of May 2024, and has also co-founded The Cricket Revolution, which is a product for cricketers to leverage to get better at the sport. One striking theme underlines Utpal’s remarkable life-journey thus far - his belief that when faced with making an important life-decision, the outcome that guarantees the most fun is the best option to pick. We discuss: What it takes to make it as a professional cricketer (generalizable to making it at a pro-level of any sport out there) Applying for and getting accepted for a Masters of Sport-Biomechanics at one of the top universities in the world in that field - Loughborough University, UK Living, conducting research and playing club cricket in the UK Applying for Founders’ Associates positions and what that entails Spearheading growth of a tech start-up company as its co-founder Using a simple “optimizing for most fun” at each decision level in life to get best results In keeping with our theme of learning from someone just two steps ahead instead of an expert.
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