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A friend in China recently asked me how to improve her English. She’d struggled with it for years as a student, labeled herself “bad at languages,” and now want...
I’m excited to launch a side project I’ve been building with two friends: TLDW (Too long; didn’t watch), a tool that helps people learn from long YouTube videos...
Not everything we build needs to scale. The cost of building is dropping fast. And for the first time, it’s normal to create things that only need to serve you.
Recently, I started volunteering at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View as a docent (tour guide), where I guide visitors through tours covering the pas...
I’ve been an avid learner of foreign languages my whole life. It’s not just what I do; it’s who I am. Learning English as a girl took me from a small Chinese ci...
A week ago, I gave birth to my daughter Sonnet. When I was pregnant, I made the decision to avoid breastfeeding entirely and exclusively feed my baby formula mi...
Let's face it; collaborating across time zones sucks. But if managed properly, it can also have enormous potential and benefits. How do we maximize the benefits...
Personally, I'm a staunch supporter of going to the office 5 days a week, and doing away with remote work altogether. Here's why.
I would like to challenge the assumption that "To be in tech, you need to know coding". Tech needs more humanists.
I'm philosophically opposed to doing any long-term planning. Here's why, and what I think we should do instead.
