I think it was the semester's first career fair, during my sophomore year in college. A Microsoft recruiter, screening for computer science majors, pulled me aside and asked me what my "favorite language" was. I panicked,…
"The world is moving faster than ever…", and all of its paraphrased clichés, have become a personal pet peeve. It shows up in business articles, podcasts, and plenty of advertising, to trigger a sense of anxiety and uncertainty…
I've been sneaking vacation photos into my Year in Review posts, as we've had the opportunity to go farther away in recent years. The travel switch flipped when the kids got old enough to remember their…
A couple months ago, I went on the CTO Confessions podcast. In one of the segments, we talked about the impending—or already developing—problem of the shrinking talent pipeline. With agentic AI, senior engineers are now expected to manage…
I called it two years ago: E-ink was stuck. It was a niche display technology, without the same R&D or manufacturing volume as conventional LCDs, and therefore lagged in both price and quality. If the increasingly slow…
The success of one generation should change the lives of the next. This is the fundamental immigrant story. My parents made the decision in their late 30s, dragging along three kids from Hong Kong across the Pacific Ocean to settle…
