Tag: Real Life
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Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?
> Read More: Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?My partner and I first broached the possibility that we might need to flee the country last summer. After election day, we began that preparation in earnest. I’m making the document we used to begin this conversation with friends and colleagues freely available to the public. I hope it helps.
π Category: Essays
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Read the Room, Apple ππ
> Read More: Read the Room, Apple ππGestures are frequently triggering at inappropriate times, in the best case simply ruining a solemn moment with tasteless commentary. In others, itβs creating legitimate panic and discomfort for patients in mental health care settings.
π Category: Essays
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I Will Be Free
> Read More: I Will Be FreeIβve wanted to take a risk like this for a long time. I put it off because I was scared. I was told my whole life, by deeply uncurious people with small imaginations, that Iβd never make it. And I believed them. That became my story. Let’s write a better one.
π Category: Essays
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I Was Laid Off In Retaliation for Anti-Discrimination Whistleblowing
> Read More: I Was Laid Off In Retaliation for Anti-Discrimination WhistleblowingIn order to protect women, gender nonconforming folks, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ+ community from suffering as my peers and I have, I feel ethically obligated to go public with my experience. In this article, I will outline why I have sufficient reason to believe that my former employer Rune Labs has…
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Precisely How Not to Conduct a Job Interview
> Read More: Precisely How Not to Conduct a Job InterviewHave you ever wondered how to most efficiently scare away potential talent? Our top scientists have been hard at work on this very question, and created the most dreadful job interview imaginable. While this knowledge is incredibly cursed, we here at JobCo believe that the study will accelerate future breakthroughs in the field of human…
π Category: Essays
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Green Waves Over Mt. Rainier
> Read More: Green Waves Over Mt. RainierSince I last checked in, I have: moved 2,900 miles, survived Covid, organized a series of mass protests, rioted in the streets, single handedly restructured my companys SDLC, and made a pilgrimage to one of the last lesbian bars in the country. All of this has reaffirmed my belief that, yes, I am in fact…
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Suppose Google was Compromised
> Read More: Suppose Google was CompromisedThreat modeling is the information security practice of anticipating and mitigating negative outcomes in physical and digital systems, most often unauthorized access, theft, and vandalism. I thought it would be fun to practice this skill on a novel scenario. Even better if its something apparently nobody has ever solved or published resources for, but that…
π Category: Essays
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Help, I Am Being Haunted by Store-Brand Oreos
> Read More: Help, I Am Being Haunted by Store-Brand OreosA story about my family history of gambling addiction, childhood experience with food insecurity, and how emerging technologies which facilitate financial speculation continue to influence my career in tech.
π Category: Essays
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That Time I Embarrassed Myself in Gran Turismo
> Read More: That Time I Embarrassed Myself in Gran TurismoA goofy anecdote about giving constructive criticism to new hobbyists.
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Long Trains, Yellow Jackets, & Anesthesia
> Read More: Long Trains, Yellow Jackets, & AnesthesiaIt still feels kind of unreal. After almost six years of waiting, innumerable sacrifices, and reckless leaps through the burning, acid-soaked hoop that is the American healthcare industry, I have finally, successfully received transition surgery. And you know what? It was still worth every second of it. Iβd like to do a write up on…
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