On Technical Entitlement

You know that kid who’s been coding for, well, forever?

How to Reinforce Impostor Syndrome

September 2012

I originally posted this on September 27, 2012. As part of my migration to Medium, I’m reposting it here, unedited, and using Notes to add commentary from where I stand now, in July 2013.

Forketing

The next evolution of developer evangelism

From 0-350 In Three Years

How we’ve taken the Rutgers CS community from non-existent to East Coast…

The Ladies’ Room

There weren’t many women at Valve. I was reminded of this exactly once.

Cool

“He seems like a really cool guy,” I said, referring to someone who is famous in certain tech circles.

“He seems like a cool guy to me, too,” my friend said. “But then,” he added, “I think most famous tech people are cool.”

Fortunate

I feel blessed that I am in a discipline where people pick each other up, rather than drag each other down.

In some majors, people tear pages out of textbooks and lie to one another and claw each other to the ground. This is all in the name of the “curve.”

Why Winnie the Pooh reminds me to overcome my impostor syndrome.

The Moore Mouse

Moore 100 is the beating heart of Penn Computer Science. It is the kind of place that is packed at midnight. It is the kind of…

The Ultimate Trust

Giving freedom, gaining respect, and working to give back so much more

Its the first cool day of fall, three weeks into the semester, 6:15pm on a friday night in Panera. And despite the odd normalcy of this day to the rest…