Babblings
This personal blog is a portal through which I do my best deep soul snorkeling, about design to relationships, to life.
I've written about my immigrant story before but have recently been thinking a bit more deeply of what it means. I came across the concept of transgenerational trauma. This is related to the study …
I’ve spent a lot of time in the last couple months thinking about the street and our relationship to it. For a lot of people, the concept of the street brings back old memories …
I regularly have a hard time justifying working for large tech (and non-tech) companies in the bay area. With the whole movement to “stick it to the man”, I really wonder what the benefit …
Having spent some time both in the aviation space and working for an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) in the automobile industry, I thought it would be valuable to capture some of my reflections and …
The Bay Area is a weird place. I’ve written a little bit about my very first impressions of California but I’ve been thinking about what makes this place the way it is. Here’s (more …
Yes, I said it. Hitler theory. It’s a theory that I’ve thought about and held for a long time. It pertains to a mindset of creation and redesign in the Bay Area’s overindexed “design …
Everyone is talking about autonomous cars. Whether is urbanists talking about how streets will change, to our grandmas thinking about how they can get rid of their cars, it’s a phenomenon that is going …
Before the year started, a friend and I spent some time mapping out each month to help me create a plan of action around my future. I was on the verge of (slash in …
I recently went to a client meeting "unsupervised" and was astounded at the amount of anxiety I felt. While I've gone to many a customer meeting, this was my first time not being accompanied …
I created this for Dan Boyarski, one of my amazing professors I had a chance to take a class in my time at Carnegie Mellon University. Dan is officially retiring this year (he's been …
I acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Custodians on whose land I live, play, and work. I pay my deepest respects to all Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging.
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