Living in Silicon Valley can really skew your perspective on things and leave you feeling a lot worse off than you actually are, especially given the “rat race” nature of a lot of the startups and large companies here. I mainly started this book out of curiosity about the title, especially since it didn’t have […]
Book Review: Bad Blood

Reading Bad Blood was like seeing a train wreck happening in real life. You hope things get better as time goes on, but it just gets worse. And worse. And WORSE. I read the book knowing how it ends and yet somehow I still had some sort of optimism that things would get better at […]
Falling asleep using meditation

As someone whose job it is to constantly think for a living, I sometimes find it hard to shut my brain off at the end of the day. I wouldn’t necessarily call it insomnia or anything, but depending on how my job went that day, or if I had a particularly stimulating conversation, it can […]
Hello, Silicon Valley!

In tech as software engineers, it’s normal to spend each day reading up on the latest technologies, advancements in software architecture, and other general tech news. It makes sense. For most of us, our jobs are at least 40 hours each week (if not significantly more). But what do we do for the remaining 128 hours […]