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I used to have terrifying dreams regularly. I was afraid to go to sleep because I felt I’d be haunted by a new tragedy in my sleep. I’d have very lucid dreams but became aware I couldn’t wake myself up and felt paralyzed and trapped in the dream world while being unable to move my real body. Thankfully, over the past couple years, this has become very rare. There was a dream I had about 8 years…
Okay okay, I’d rather be perfectly fluent in any language I’m studying. But I really think the most fun is in the intermediate levels. I absolutely love having just enough grammar and vocabulary to speak around a topic that I might not have the exact words for. There’s something challenging and creative to it that is hard to recreate if you are just perfectly fluent. I love doing this when I speak…
It is so absolutely frustrating trying to communicate to people the problems with leaving bad reviews of local small businesses. So many people immediately get upset and think you’re saying nobody can have a negative opinion or that people can’t take feedback. I have always felt that the majority of bad reviews are useless - long before I worked in food. But now that I do work in the food…
Yes, women can be tech bros and I was one of them. When I think about what pisses me off about all the major, richest Personalities in tech right now (Musk, Altman, Zuckerberg, and the like) is that they remind me of my younger self. I studied Computer Science in college and I became super influenced by people and ideologies who had the absolute most Free Market takes. I’m talking pure,…
A good manager will ruin your life. Because you’ll never be able to work for a bad one! There’s a lot of what I’m going to say that likely applies to most professions, but I come from an engineering background, so I will speak with that context. There are a lot of engineering managers who wholly lack the technical expertise to appropriately manage the teams that work for them. However, I am not…
Content warning: I will be discussing a recent encounter with being told something racist against Black people. I am not Black. This makes me sick to post about but I don’t want to share this story with friends because I don’t want to seem like a virtue signaler or asking for pats on the back. But I need to write my feelings down especially when I heard him completely lying about what he said…
In 2011 I lost my father to a neurological disorder he had been suffering from most of my life. Happy Father’s Day, dad! You turned me into a curious lover of technology and techno-optimist as I dreamed of ways technology could be used to ease your suffering and bring joy to our world. Unfortunately, despite a few people doing powerful things with technology, it turns out meaningless garbage that…
Has the software industry lost its mind? (yes) How are real people who work in the tech industry reporting on an increase in lines of code due to AI like it’s an inherently good or even meaningful thing? Code is a LIABILITY! Once upon a time, everyone understood this to be true! “Hey, I’m a small business and I’m looking for some useful software. It’s really important to me that the software has…
You have to live in the world that results from the consequences of what you build. There is little innovation in unregulated industries. Innovation is born from constraints. What I am seeing more and more with AI “solutions” is not innovation or creativity, but the most obvious and easiest things to do. These are almost always at the expense of a world that is enjoyable to live in. Real people…
How does meaningful change happen when the people in power who are supposed to act on behalf of the powerless consistently fail to do so? The complicity of those with power and influence (and capital) cannot be understated. There are absolutely people with power and money who could make a change and choose every day not to. They are cowards. Fear drives their actions. Fear of losing their power…