Last year, my husband and I decided to move out of San Francisco. After spending many years there, it was a big life decision to relocate from a city we’d loved. We had our routines: Our Saturday trips to the Ferry Building Farmer’s Market to pick-up fresh hen-of-the-woods mushrooms for…

When I first came across Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, I was immediately inspired to convert to a life of minimalism. As I read chapter by chapter, I pieced through my closet, grasping each article of clothing in my hands, pausing to ask myself, “Does this…

I’ve been looking to do some exploratory data analysis and visualization using Python, so as a side project, I turned to a database from my everyday life… the thousands of iMessages I’ve sent and received over the past three years. A few months back, I built a ‘Boyz II woMen’…

For the past half of 2017, I’ve been taking a sabbatical of sorts. It seems weird calling it that because it feels like this term should be reserved for academics who have spent many more years of their lives working and contributing to the common good. So maybe, for the…

I‘ve been working on a speech-recognition app called ‘Eggcellent’ on the voice-activated speaker Amazon Echo using Alexa. Amazon calls these apps ‘Alexa Skills,’ which enable third-party developers to build ways for your virtual assistant Alexa to read aloud the news, order a Starbucks coffee, play Jeopardy, give restaurant recommendations…

Most people go to business school to spend two years brushing up on their finance skills and learning the true value of leadership (and maybe tossing in a trip or two to Iceland while they’re at it). While these topics were certainly on my ‘to-learn’ list, I came to realize…

Relationships are all about communication — how we convey our emotions to our significant others, understand how they make sense of this crazy world, and empathize when one of us faces a welcome (or unwelcome) life surprise. These days, communication between special someones more often than not happens over text…