Jul 16, 2020“Where are you from?” — A Third Culture Kid’s conundrumAnd why “home” may not mean what you think it means — Along with “How many languages do you speak?” and “What do your parents do?”, the question “Where are you from?” ranks high on the list of inquiries any Third Culture Kid gets asked the most during their childhood, by other kids and adults alike. Although the question usually comes from…Culture9 min read
Feb 12, 2020Why your name’s pronunciation shouldn’t matterAnd why providing a phonetic transcription of it is a bad idea Recently, I’ve started noticing some strange square brackets containing cryptic, dash-separated syllables popping next to people’s names on Slack. I soon understood these to be the arbitrary phonetic transcriptions of these people’s names. To make sure we’re on…Workplace3 min read
Feb 2, 2020I automated myself out of my customer support job.And here’s how you could do that too. — A few years ago I worked a customer/technical /community (pick one) support role. Although it was interesting, fun and challenging at first, the whole thing soon became fairly repetitive and tedious. …Customer Support7 min read
Jan 27, 2020This is how —and why— I started learning front-end development.From tech support to engineering in under 2 years. — First things first, unless you’ve stalked me on LinkedIn, you might think that I’ve been a developer for years, that I programmed adventure games on floppy disks as a preteen, that I have seen countless JavaScript frameworks rise to GitHub stardom and then slowly fall into the abyss of forgotten…Leaning7 min read
May 1, 2019Don’t think of a pink elephant!Conquering tinnitus and a burnout — Living with tinnitus I was only a kid when I was struck with tinnitus — that ringing in your ears you get after going to a loud concert without wearing earplugs (please protect your ears!). Except it never went away. Today, some 17 years later, I would like to tell my story and…Anxiety10 min read
