Around this time last year as 2020 was coming to a close and I was looking ahead to 2021, I thought about ways to create fun things to look forward to throughout the year that would allow me to challenge myself and grow while also making sure whatever I created…

In November (before the Omicron variant was discovered), I flew for the first time since the pandemic. Prior to that, my last flight anywhere was in the summer of 2019 when I flew abroad. I was surprised by how much I forgot despite being fairly well traveled. In an effort…

The French composer Camille Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre or “Dance of Death” consists of drama and darkness. There is, at times, a lightness, a playfulness, and a sweetness, but always a dark undercurrent, an undercurrent of urgency and gravitas. While performing at NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma…

“When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink…

There is something that occasionally occurs in the startup world which was often done in elementary school. I never expected to make this connection until I heard Adam Grant talking about this being applied in his own classroom as well as how it applies to onboarding new employees and contributing…

I thought that with hard work and dedication, I would get a six-pack. I was wrong. It took some unlearning before I learned what worked for me and achieved some surprising and accidental results. I would like to share what I unlearned and learned with you. Let me provide some…

The Olympic athlete’s journey is long and arduous. It takes heart, courage, and perseverance. Yet Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Olympic athletes and the AAPI community in general is facing another difficulty: although hate crimes decreased by 7% overall in 2020, there has been an almost 150% increase in hate…