September 2011
11 posts
A Student's Chronicles (Part 6): People
This is a multi-part series summarizing my college life. Before this, there were Prelude, Mountaintop, Nadir, Formation, and Doldrums.
These posts are naturally becoming shorter and shorter. I say naturally because experiences always seem longer the first time around. By the n-th work term though, everything feels like a breeze.
That’s not to say that I didn’t learn anything. Every...
A Student's Chronicles (Part 5): Doldrums
This is a multi-part series summarizing my college life. Before this, there were Prelude, Mountaintop, Nadir, and Formation.
A number of people have asked me what I think of Amazon. My reply is this: I had a time to forget at Amazon, but their AWS teams sound amazing. Amazon, after all, is a large company: different teams have different cultures and I was just unlucky to have joined a dispiriting...
The Management Myth - Magazine - The Atlantic →
The Asian in me feels a lil more inferior every time a caucasian optometrist says, “Open your eyes nice and wide….as /wide/ as you can… just a lil bit wider…”
“Why don’t you have the balls to tell me [that I’m fired] yourself?”
– Bartz Calls Yahoo’s Board A Bunch Of “Doofuses” | TechCrunch
Flaherty weighs reducing tariffs in response to... →
I love how our conservative party is so gung ho about cutting back citizen liberties, but would only “consider” reducing tariffs.
Barca chief admits Cesc bargain | Sky Sports →
1. Spend 2+ years luring a player over. 2. Force Arsenal to sell him for cheap. 3. Brag about how you ripped Arsenal off. Very very classy, Barca.
“Stupidity is just intelligence misunderstood.”
– Me
“Imagine replacing the sequence of algebra, geometry and calculus with a sequence...”
– Teaching math with context and applications