Posts tagged with Thoughts
Asian. American?
It’s been really hard to absorb. Think about. Process. And write about, the experience of being an Asian American in the past year. Even before the COVID-related lockdowns began in the United States last March, one of the underreported…
COVID, A Year Later
As I'm writing this, it's been a year to the week that America shut down from the pandemic. The combination of restricting European travel, celebrities announcing their COVID susceptibility, and the dramatic postponement of a major…
The Asymmetry of Creation
It takes me, on average, about an hour to write a minute’s worth of blog prose. That is, as most posts here take only 3–4 minutes to read, they correspondingly take about 3–4 hours to write and…
Year in Review — 2020
Argh, this year. I'm hardly original in bidding good riddance to a frustrating and challenging year, though the weight of ongoing pandemic is, in a macabre way, a continual reminder for me to be grateful for continued health…
The Ceiling and the Floor
I've been mulling over a mental model the past couple of years, expanding on the notion of setting and hitting a singular goal: the idea of optimizing for the ceiling and the floor. It came about from an…
An Affirm Retrospective
No fine print. It was a few months after I started my new job at Affirm, when I noticed this literally plastered on the hallway walls leading to the company kitchens. Out of our set of company's values,…
