Hello friend! 👋🏼
Thanks for hopping here to learn a bit more about me. Below are some of my conversation starter cards that I hope you'll enjoy scanning through. I'm always excited to meet new people and jam on ideas or just make a connection.
🏡 CURRENTLY RESIDING IN
New York
After bouncing around attending postponed weddings of wonderful friends for a majority of 2022, finally settling back home.
🎓 ALMA MATER
Carnegie Mellon University
I studied at CMU for my B.S. degrees in Information Systems and Human-Computer-Interaction, and stayed at CMU to attain my M.S. in HCI as well.
📘 READING
The Fourth Turning
The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history is composed of four eras—or "turnings"—that last about twenty years and that always arrive in the same order.
🎸 LEARNING
Turkish
Feeling grateful I grew up bilingual in Chinese, for becoming conversational in another language as an adult is not as trivial...
🧠 THINKING ABOUT
Gut biodiversity
Kombucha, sauerkraut, akkermansia, kimchi... how to improve gut health
🎯 2022'S BIGGEST CHANGE
"Just say it"
Challenging myself to give more frequent positive and constructive feedback in both personal and professional relationships.
🦷 MOST USED FUN FACT
8 less teeth
Yup. I have 8 less teeth than the average person. Most of them are molars, and I am also missing a few incisors, but the remaining ones are very sharp.
👁 WEIRDEST THING I OWN
Eye drop castle
With 300+ singular eye droppers used after Lasik, I decided to make an art project out of them. A castle of empty eye dropper shells that now hold all my airplants!