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YC AI Startup School 2025

Y Combinator hosted its AI Startup School event in San Francisco, bringing together 2,500 top undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students…

Rethinking Open Source Contribution in the Age of AI Agents, featuring vLLM Core Maintainer Roger…

At MLSys 2026, I attended Roger Wang’s talk on “Rethinking Open Source Contribution in the Age of AI Agents.”

Ill be speaking at the 2026 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC)!

I’m Speaking at Grace Hopper Celebration 2026!

OpenAI GPT 5.5 Event

Last week I flew from Seattle to San Francisco for the OpenAI GPT-5.5 Event and had a great experience meeting people working across AI…

Im a Nvidia Developer Champion!

I’m excited to share that I’ve been selected as an NVIDIA Developer Champion.

Racism: Cause and Effect

I realized I’d heard the word a thousand times but couldn’t explain it. So I started over.

Im attending MLSys ’26!

I’m a 2026 Alumni Ventures Fellow

I’m excited to share that I’ve been selected as a 2026 Venture Fellow at Alumni Ventures.

Codepath Volunteers at Microsoft

Earlier this year, CodePath organized a meetup with Microsoft employees who volunteer with the organization. The gathering brought together…

AI+Design Series : Design In Tech Seattle Redux with John Maeda

Last week, I attended a community event featuring John Maeda, VP of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft, as part of the…

Wishing everyone a Happy Holidays & New Year!

Wishing you courage, wisdom, and happiness as you enter the New Year!

My poster submission to WiML Symposium @ ICML 2026 was accepted!

I would love to connect with women who are also attending ICML this year.

Women in Product Conference 2025

The Women In Product annual conference will be returning to an in-person format this year for their 10th anniversary. WIP will be hosting…

The Glitch in the Mirror: What the “Malicious Act of Unaligned AI” Actually Reveals

When I saw an X post referring to the recent (presumedly) ChatGPT generated tariff plan as “the first effective malicious action from an…

Microsoft Aspire Start Strong

I attended Aspire Start Strong at the Seattle Convention Center. The 3 day event brought together early in career & university hires from…

The River Doesn’t Store the Stone

What does it mean to remember?

ICML 2026 in Seoul: A Practical Guide to the Conference on Machine Learning and Traveling in South…

The Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning, better known as ICML 2026, will take place from July 6 to July 11, 2026 in…

How to Run High-ROI Workshops

Workshops bring people together. How do you make the most of them?

GT AI & Hiring Study: Call for Participants

Hi everyone! I’m a GT student doing research this summer on AI and hiring. We’re looking for volunteer participants in one of two groups:

The 10 Best Coffee Spots on the Atlantic Seaboard, Ranked

Last year I renovated a house. I’ve written about that elsewhere, and the short version is that I needed a refuge. And somehow I found such…

2025 Year in Review

Last year, I shared a reflection on what 2024 looked like for me across product, community, and learning. I am continuing with a 2025 Year…

The Neuroscience of Satisfaction and Fulfillment

I was looking through one of the leadership enablement workshops and came across the discussion on the Neuroscience of satisfaction, so we…

The Graveyard of Brilliant Ideas — A Writing Challenge

Ghost of words!

Nurturable

It was a Wednesday. I was scrolling on my phone in the kitchen, half-listening to the kettle, when I saw the word.

A Building in Hangzhou, a Question in My Kitchen

On the strange new heaviness of tools that still arrive on my phone like nothing.