One day I parked my car in front of a CVS and was about to step into the store, but I heard my cooling fan blasting even though the engine was already stopped. Living in a hot city I thought it must have been the car dissipating excessive heat but the fan kept running and running. I restarted the engine and switched it off. The fan kept running. Many minutes later, it kept running.

“Time for a cooling fan relay replacement,” I thought to myself.

What is a cooling fan relay?

A relay is nothing but a switch. It practically is the same as the light…

- I don’t know how.

- Clickbait?

- No.

After college I joined a technology startup in Boston and although I did not work 15 hours a day, I was still overwhelmed by how much I wanted to accomplish a day and what a lack of time there was.

A bit stressed out while not losing a sense of humor, my co-worker shared this with me on Slack, after a gloomy deadline discussion meeting:

While I still haven’t figured out an answer to this billion-dollar question, I did discover an arrangement that made one day of mine feel like two…

52 F. Rainy. Downtown Seattle.

I was here for the Seattle Interactive Conference 2019 on Oct 17+18 of 2019. Over those two days there were 145 sessions of talks, presentations, meetups, and activities about design, UX/UI and technology. My takeaways (this series) from the conference are not intended to be a precise recap of the talks in its entirety but a personal interpretation and reflection of the talks that I attended. This series will come in three parts (II & III are coming soon):

• Part I: Talks attended and personal notes.
• Part II: Recommendations and tips for future SIC attendees.
• …