While I didn’t post anything on my blog I have been working on a lot of fun projects in my spare time. Most notably, I have been learning Rust. Part of doing that resulted in a few neat side-projects that I will talk about here in more detail. This is mostly my journey on learning a new language, I am sure there are other ways, but this worked for me.

One researcher of language acquisition describes her basic question as “How do I get a thought from my mind into yours?”

For the past several years, I've been thinking a lot about learning science, or the systematic investigation of how we learn. This was fueled by a switch in career trajectories after I graduated college towards software engineering.

From time to time, every leader has to deliver news that is hard for employees to hear. Even when businesses are doing well, organizational and structural change is to be expected, and acquisitions, reorganizations, or policy changes can affect people’s jobs in ways that create feelings of fear, anger, or sorrow.

A laundry list of personal reminders