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Nov 5, 2015

newsletters tho

I’m pretty obsessed with newsletters.

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Jul 19, 2015

ABC — american born chinese

coming to terms with my culture

brrring.

It was lunchtime. That time of day where most students would rejoice because they could finally escape the boring confines of the classroom and go eat with their friends. But I did not…

being @fat’s gf

This weekend, I tagged along with my boyfriend Jacob and his friend Guillermo to an event called HackingEDU.

They were asked to come talk to a group of college students, lead a technical workshop, and give a keynote.

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Nov 9, 2015

Tech Is Eating Media. Now What?

John Herrman

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of mansions and highways

some non-fully formed thoughts on technology and media

taking back expectations

My sister and I have always been very close.

As kids, we pursued a host of entrepreneurial ventures: bike washing, because car washes were too mainstream and we were too small; rock polishing, which, to our great surprise, turned out to not be very lucrative…

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Dec 21, 2014

First we had homepages.

Next we got streams.

Then we saw a return to newsletters.

So what is the thing for 2015?

This will be the year of the mixtape. Not quite the cassette tape you made your high school crush, but similar in sentiment.

a tale of two lives

I live in the Mission in San Francisco. I work in tech. I’m that stereotype.

But this past weekend, my boyfriend and I got to escape the rhythm of city life and spend a few days up in Mill Valley. We were dogsitting for a friend.

okay, let’s talk pay

2011 software engineering intern, LA: $10/hr
2012 university lab job, IL: $10/hr
2013 software engineering contract, LA/remote: $35/hr
2013 public radio news apps intern, DC: $3,700 stipend for 10 weeks
2013 interactive news intern, NY: $950/week
2013 software engineering new grad, SF…