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Kuan Luo in Back and Forth

Mar 4, 2018

Day-Long meditation retreat at home

How to deepen the practice without leaving home? Looking back on the beta version of a mini home…

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Kuan Luo in Back and Forth

Oct 16, 2018

How much copy is too much?

How do you know if your website has too much or too little information

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Kuan Luo in Back and Forth

Aug 28, 2016

Design is a team sport

Stories, traditions and learnings from my 2.34 years at Etsy

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Kuan Luo in Back and Forth

Sep 24, 2015

An Introvert’s Guide to Conferences

…or how to make the best of them all

As an introvert, I love and hate conferences. Or festivals. Or gatherings. Or whatever you’d like to call the get-together of like-minded people. I love conferences because I can…

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Kuan Luo in Back and Forth

Nov 1, 2018

The Clay Buddha

Behind layers of clay, there is gold inside all of us.

Kuan Luo in Back and Forth

Apr 12, 2015

A circle with infinite radius is a line

Growing up I spent many evenings after school fantasizing the lives of journalists in…

Kuan Luo in Back and Forth

Jul 27, 2017

Product Design is a Work in Progress

The design team at Cockroach Labs recently doubled in size (Hooray!). During the hiring…

Kuan Luo in Back and Forth

Jul 24, 2018

What the Main Salmon River Taught Me

Lessons from a week of kayaking in the Idaho wilderness

Kuan Luo in Back and Forth

Sep 5, 2015

On dealing with negativity bias at work and in life

Two weeks ago during our regular 1:1, at my own request, my manager and I talked about the designer competence matrix at Etsy Design and how I could improve and be better.

Kuan Luo in Back and Forth

Feb 4, 2019

Following the Headlights

Reflections on my sabbatical and some news on what’s next

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Every week, Kuan writes about life, travel, meditation, design and stories you inspire her to tell. She is building @ftwretreat, and has previously led design at CockroachDB, Etsy, Grand St, Washington Post, and Objective Subject.

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