ottawa, december 2022 At some point last year I came to the realization that I have spent my entire life falling in love with everything but myself. I noted that I had started both my first and third years in university in relationships that I was inexplicably pushing past their…

waterloo, fall 2022 I am really not a religious person. When we were trying to pick a school to send my little sister to, the only one that offered junior kindergarten happened to be a Catholic school. And so it wasn’t until I was 12 years old that I learned…

san francisco, summer 2022 It took me moving across the continent to put pen to paper again, but it feels good to write. While I plan to write more about my work and thoughts on technology, I wanted to start by sharing a letter I wish I could’ve read four…

the case against facial recognition for predicting human behaviour march 19th, 2022 Harvard University professor and author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” Shoshana Zuboff recently stated that “in virtually every economic sector, from insurance to automobiles to health, education, finance… every product is described as “smart” and every service…

february 13th, 2022 Long time no write (for reasons that I hope will become apparent as you read this piece.) I’m looking forward to seeing you again, more regularly. Welcome to a new season of life. once upon a time I’m not sure if anybody else used this platform or if…

january 16th, 2022 started on r/uwaterloo, now we’re here Before I applied to the University of Waterloo, the word “reddit” meant nothing to me. By the end of my junior year as a software engineering student here, my search history has been dominated by threads from r/uwaterloo with titles like “WaterlooWorks…

january 11th, 2022 What follows is a series of thought dumps from the first 11 days of the year (which have, to say the least, felt just a little bit hectic.) This isn’t artful or reflective like some of my other writing, but felt important to record for future students…

january 4th, 2022 the hopes and dreams of a software engineer A bit like someone trying not to get their hopes up before a first date, I try not to let myself Google a company’s office before getting the job. It’s hard to fall for a company (and their espresso…

december 26th, 2021 This piece was inspired by Tanya Marcela Llanas’s creative writing thesis, which I found on her Twitter. It was so cathartic for me to read the beautiful way that she translated my complicated feelings about STEM into words — this reflection on my time so far at…