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I've been writing here for over 15 years. The topics can wander—technology, management, cars, games, culture—but I give each idea its space to breathe, to explore it on its own terms. Here are some of the posts I'm most proud of.

What happens when advice is repeated until it becomes dogma

First of a five-part series reminiscing my first decade-and-a-half in Silicon Valley

I write Year in Review posts at the end of each year, and this was one of my favorite ones to write

Tinkering with e-ink screens to render family calendars on the kitchen table

Once I made it to the director level in management, I realized how different the job actually was from my perception of the job from afar, and wrote down my observations here

For each stop in my career journey, it's instructive to take a step back, when it's over, to credit its challenges

My interview experience at Google, and my first post to go viral on Hacker News

Reflections on what it means to be Asian in tech, and where I felt stuck, a decade ago

When I geek out on keyboards, it can go pretty deep

One of my favorite books, in three back-breaking volumes