I realized how little I was reading and was in danger of not making my reading challenge so I upped my reading (aka shorter books) in December to make it across the finish line. Happy new year folks! Fiction There There by Tommy Orange Why I picked up this book: I’ve seen this book all…
One time, years ago, I complained to Grant that I didn’t understand why anyone cared so much about sports, especially when they’re not playing it. Grant said something about it being one of the few things that can unite people across different social aspects and get people really excited towards a shared purpose. I spent…
Well, first of all I did make it to the plant and I made my partner take a picture of me through the live stream. It was quite large. I have honestly not totally gotten back into reading until the last few weeks, but here I go! Fiction Redwall by Brian Jaques Why I chose…
I’m going to see a corpse flower today. So called because it smells like “a mix of rotting fish, sweaty socks and hot garbage” source It’s an endangered tropical flower that might take a decade between flowering events in the wild, but happens every 2-3 years in cultivation. People have been asking me about the…
I don’t know if it’s always been the case or it is a natural progression from psychology books, but if you noticed I’ve been reading more self-help books lately, I guess that’s true. I mean, I already read professional development books in general, so I was practically already drinking tea in the living room of…
My introductory rant this week is on a new fact about Amazon that makes me angry: Amazon prohibits digital books it publishes to be available to libraries. It is the only publisher that does this. Turns out, the tech giant has also become a publishing powerhouse — and it won’t sell downloadable versions of its…
I knew this month that I wanted to keep reading fiction books, but I also have been trying to read more books by Asian authors. It crossed my mind that it feels like…like I would hesitate to recommend a book with Asian characters to my friends because I fear it would kind of come across…
This month I kind of let recommendations take me where I would, for the most part. I had left over recommendations from last month that finally came in from the library, recommendations from colleagues, and a book club book. The most spontaneous book was on investing because I kind of feel like I’m not doing…
I have no one to talk to about the books I read. I still don’t, but I also don’t want to forget them. I’m going to try writing about them, let me know what you think. Overall, January was a continuation of a trend I started towards in 2020: “No more Fewer depressing non-fiction books.”…
Accessibly when used in my work refers to making digital product equally available to everyone, regardless of disability. The usual story I tell about getting interested in accessibility was when I was assigned to make an app accessible during my internship. There was a short “how-to” presentation that mostly covered things like color contrast and…
