4 ideas to help you suffer less from bugs — On October 4th, 2021, Facebook and its subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram became unavailable for around six hours. As a human being, I breathed a sigh of relief and spent a delightfully phone-free afternoon, but as an engineer, my heart went out to whoever was at the epicenter of the outage…

The year leading up to my wedding, I remember running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Although my never-ending to-do list of preparations pressed on me constantly, it felt like I could never settle down to make any headway on it. …

Here are some ways you can use data to level up your team’s impact — Data can be a powerful tool for improving products. Used correctly, it can help us fix bugs, identify feature gaps, and highlight places where the UX needs improvement. However, collecting data does not automatically equate to insight. It takes a lot of work to go from raw data to real…

What I wish I knew earlier about social intelligence — I’m often amazed at how socially adept other people are, seemingly by nature. It feels like it’s taken years of practice, observation, and self-acceptance for me to get where I am today. After taking this journey, I consider myself a person with healthy relationships, and I’ve consistently gotten feedback at…