A year ago I decided that I wanted to take my workouts more seriously. Previously, I had worked with 3 different personal trainers, raced bikes in 4 different disciplines and had on-again-off-again gym memberships for years.
Racing bikes was an exciting and accessible way to workout when I lived in…
I have always had a fascination with blue collar workwear. There are memories from high school and my twenties where I recall picking up coveralls or some form of overalls at a thrift store to wear around. That never worked out. The workwear was always poor fitting and stood out…
I am a feminist. It’s an expression I started using after reading bell hooks’s “Feminism is for Everybody” about 13 years ago. Sadly, I’ve been perpetually confused about how to be a “good feminist” ever since. Let me step back though. I really do believe that feminism is for everybody…
I was 14, I think. It was 1995. I ventured into a new junior high as my family had relocated from the dregs of the Inland Empire in southern California to the much more affluent area of Orange County, home to the rich and incredibly conservative. …
Angela Nagle’s new book, Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right, was an interesting and surprising read. I’m not familiar with Nagle’s previous work, and to be honest I get a little lost when it comes to book-sized writing on what I…
I am perpetually dissatisfied.
When I was younger, I would work all day and all night on a project. It would take form and blossom into an expression of my vision. As I would add the last pieces and finishes to complete the work, I would step back to take…
I have the privilege of being surrounded by brilliant, dynamic women throughout my life. Today, I wanted to call attention to a very special one I met last September, Megan Saxelby. Yes, we are dating, and yes, I am very much smitten with her. …
On February 21st, I was delighted to represent Lifion as the venue sponsor for the Digital Product Design meet-up at Lifion NYC. …
One of the biggest problems I face working in product and engineering groups is communication across an organization or groups of people in diverse roles. At a large company, like Google, I found it hard to get colleagues’ attention. …
