How I'm spending my sabbatical
After finishing college at UMass Amherst, I went straight into my first job. I packed my blue 2001 Honda Civic, and drove across the country, hoping to find my place...
Short Essays
Contradictions As children, we slowly develop distinct worldviews, often influenced by our friends and family. A little girl will observe no correlation between her views on abortion and the Iraq...
Behavioral Trade-Offs
Over the years, I’ve distilled patterns that seem common among top performing engineers. These in particular are interesting because as a novice manager, I often leaned towards their respective anti-patterns,...
How to hire data-driven PMs/Designers
At FindTheBest (later Graphiq), we have spent a lot of time building a knowledge graph, refining our product development processes, and learning data science techniques to enable data-driven decision making....
Intuition vs Analytics in UX
Much like economics, UX is a very polarized field. On one hand, you have the traditional practitioners who believe good UX is solely the product of good intuition. These people...