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If you were to read all 26 posts on this blog, you'd read 36,349 words, taking 3 hours and 2 minutes

• Iceberg v3, Two Talks, One Lakehouse
  About two tech talks I presented recently
  March 30, 2025
  1,244 words, ~ 6 min read

  perspective

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• Self-Driving? Not Impressive Anymore
  Thoughts on Waymo and Tesla AP
  December 28, 2024
  1,236 words, ~ 6 min read

  perspective

• How I Search
  Multi-engine search process for internal and public data
  September 29, 2024
  888 words, ~ 4 min read

  perspective

• Open Source, Market Dominance
  Open source software doesn't directly make money, but can help (a lot)
  July 18, 2024
  1,751 words, ~ 9 min read

  business

  perspective

• Gradient Ascent to Robust Security at EY using Snowflake Snowpark
  Leading an ML SIEM project for Big 4 consulting
  June 10, 2024
  1,317 words, ~ 7 min read

  internship

• Principal Component Analysis on Business Markets
  The intuition of differentiating businesses in a market with user density
  June 7, 2024
  1,523 words, ~ 8 min read

  business

  perspective

• College Dropout: A Reflection
  Thoughts on taking a gap year for internships. Part 2 on college reflections.
  June 3, 2024
  764 words, ~ 4 min read

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  perspective

• Writing More Exam Questions: A Reflection
  Coding conundrum, data structure dilemmas. Part 1 on college reflections.
  May 25, 2024
  1,640 words, ~ 8 min read

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  teaching

• Interviewing: The Signal to Noise Ratio
  Modelling a recruiting process via signals
  March 26, 2024
  888 words, ~ 4 min read

  perspective

• Extreme Timeboxing
  Managing every minute of time
  February 16, 2024
  780 words, ~ 4 min read

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• The Decline of Big Budget Blockbusters
  Expensive movies and franchises are going from sure bets to financial flops
  December 21, 2023
  990 words, ~ 5 min read

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  perspective

• Economics of Software
  A look into why software companies are so profitable - and by extension, so valuable - with a little DCF
  November 19, 2023
  2,835 words, ~ 14 min read

  business

  perspective

• Pixels, Products, and People
  Exploring various roles in tech companies to see how products get made
  November 10, 2023
  2,638 words, ~ 13 min read

  perspective

• Layers of Abstraction
  Things are becoming easier and easier
  October 20, 2023
  684 words, ~ 3 min read

  perspective

• SF Summer Chills, Professional Thrills at Databricks
  Working as a product management intern on the compute platform team
  August 17, 2023
  801 words, ~ 4 min read

  internship

• Shipping Software at Tesla
  Working as a technical program manager intern on the software release team
  May 8, 2023
  868 words, ~ 4 min read

  internship

• Dolly, No Diddle Daddle
  Trying to make sense of the otherworldly claims about generative AI
  April 23, 2023
  1,044 words, ~ 5 min read

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  perspective

• Short Lived Mac Touchbar
  The Mac used to have a touchbar, somewhat useful, but it's gone now
  March 5, 2023
  1,226 words, ~ 6 min read

  hardware

  perspective

• Designing Blog Infrastructure, Part 1
  Explorations into runtime of building a static generated blog
  December 26, 2022
  2,587 words, ~ 13 min read

  code

• Incomplete Autocomplete: ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot
  Analyzing the current state of generative AI
  December 21, 2022
  2,439 words, ~ 12 min read

  ai

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• 'Tis the Season of Retool
  Reflections from interning at a fast-growing unicorn enterprise software startup
  December 17, 2022
  1,312 words, ~ 7 min read

  internship

• Ideation: Make Solutions People Need, a Workshop at SWE Tech Day
  The importance of what you build, not how
  December 4, 2022
  1,345 words, ~ 7 min read

  business

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• The Ideal Approach to Teach Mobile Development in MDB
  Crafting curriculum to teach software development
  November 25, 2022
  2,731 words, ~ 14 min read

  mdb

  teaching

• Building Apps, a Workshop at CalHacks 9.0
  Presenting a workshop at CalHacks, the largest collegiate hackathon in the world
  October 15, 2022
  772 words, ~ 4 min read

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  mdb

  workshop

• A Summer in Seattle at Microsoft
  Recounting experiences: the work, the fun, and the memories
  August 12, 2022
  1,024 words, ~ 5 min read

  internship

• Writing #8 on the CS 61B Spring 2022 Final
  The process of creating fair (but challenging) exam questions
  May 14, 2022
  1,022 words, ~ 5 min read

  cs61b

  teaching

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