There's this advice that women seem to give each other, it's "you can have it all, just not at once". I hate it, because to me if you can't have it all at once, you're not really having it all. Rephrasing it, I would say, "You can't have it all at once. So remember to prioritize ...
A lot can happen in a year. I turned 25 reflecting on feeling like a grownup, and things I wouldn't be. I've been expecting to have a crisis about turning 26, but I'm surprisingly okay with it. A year ago I was coming out of a failed relationship, a paper rejection, and not having graduating on ...
When I started work, I set myself a simple rule - one that I'd less deliberately followed last summer. At the end of the day, leave work computer at work. Do not put work email on phone. It works. I enjoy my evenings and weekends. I wake up excited to go to the office. I have ...
Commentary (I didn't have slides) for the talk I gave for UO WISE. I thought I was going to come and have an informal chat about how interviewing at Google is not that scary, and then I saw Krystal's tweet. I freaked out a little, to be honest. Like, woah - I need to be inspiring? I ...
The other day, one of my friends tweeted about taking on too much and feeling overwhelmed. A mutual friend tweeted that he should speak to me. I guess I'm becoming known for that taking on too much, getting overwhelmed, crashing thing I repeat ad nauseum. Hmm. I have noticed a pattern where friends start noticing that I'm ...
Some time ago, Derek wrote this amazing post titled Needs More Whitespace. I was thinking about it lately because it seems like things are so hectic, and no sooner does one thing end than another begins - I got back from California, was on a panel, my boyfriend moved to Canada, then my friend moved ...
In Good to Great (Amazon), one of the things they found to differentiate great companies is that they confront the brutal facts of reality. It's a question I'm asking myself more often since reading the book - am I being brutally honest with myself? Is this how reality actually is? Am I ignoring anything that will come back ...
The other day, my boyfriend said to me, "One of the things I love about you is that you're incapable of bullsh*tting. But I think that gets you into trouble, because people who do bullsh*t just assume you must as well." This is his explanation for my latest headache. Where I make the argument as clearly ...
My boyfriend is supposed to be moving out to Canada at the start of April, but his visa application got held up. He was contemplating keeping his apartment in London and staying another month. I said, Don't do that. Spending an extra month living in limbo will suck. I give great advice (sometimes). I should really take ...
The harsh truth is that no-one cares about your idea the way you do. I tell you this, not to be mean, nor to suggest your idea is not brilliant, or that you are somehow lacking in your communication of it... just because if you think that someone else is going to fill in when you're ...
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