the greatest privilege
Of course, every engineer, mathematician and scientist — every artist — knows that the greatest privilege is being able to do the work, and the greatest joy is to actually turn yearnings into reality.
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On Engineering Developer Joy: My Year at WorkOS
Sweat rolling down my face, I turned off the AC in a tiny rental car in a Starbucks parking lot in Mexico. A strawberry sarong serving as my background, I began to speak about Engineering Developer Joy for our WorkOS Customer Event. As I rerecorded the talk I had recorded last night in a quiet …
on self-directed work: a cartographer’s journey
i share this in hopes of it resonating with others on this journey, and especially if you’re in a low now – to remind you to reflect on how far you’ve come. self-directed work often feels like you have a compass but no map. you walk towards peaks of inspiration, wander in valleys of confusion, …
on keeping a notebook
I was first introduced to the formidable Joan Didion in my junior year of high school in AP English. My teacher was a character, but more importantly she insisted we write a one page essay everyday on rhetoric pieces. One of the pieces we were assigned to analyze was Joan Didion’s landmark “On Keeping A …
a cold outreach workshop
what I covered in my cold outreach workshop on Zoom this past Monday for San Diego State’s Finance & Investment Society