An incomplete series of lists detailing what I built, wrote, talked about, and read in 2017.

Projects

• Finished my third and fourth years reading 52 books in 52 weeks
• Helped organize speakers and workshops for Flawless Hacks
• My sister and I wrapped up season one of our podcast, Sweet and Sour, with 14 guests, 17 episodes, and 1 live show
• Led the publishing-side engineering work on a new packaged content storytelling format, launched with The Recode 100

Writing

• 52 Books in 52 Weeks, Year 3 (Personal blog)
• Aesthetics and Absence: Asian American Representation Onscreen (Medium)
• A NYT tweet on books by women ‘didn’t play well.’ Here’s why. (Columbia Journalism Review)
• Teaching and Brainstorming Inclusive Technical Metaphors (Source)
• Getting Started With UI Templating (The Recompiler)

Speaking

• Panel on breaking into STEM: how to make a career in tech and science a reality (July 2017, Her Conference)
• Toward better metaphors: Accessible and inclusive ways to explain technical work (August 2017, SRCCON)
• The Life-Changing Magic of Media Mentorship (December 2017, SRCCON:WORK)

Reading

60 total in 2017. For additional metadata and more details on how I choose the books I read, check out the corresponding spreadsheet.

1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
2. The Mothers by Brit Bennett
3. The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority by Ellen D. Wu
4. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. Future Sex by Emily Witt
6. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
7. The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
8. Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace by Jessica Bennett
9. Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
10. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
11. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
12. Snotgirl, Vol. 1: Green Hair Don’t Care by Bryan Lee O’Mally, Leslie Hung
13. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
14. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
15. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
16. Act of Congress: How America’s Essential Institution Works, And How It Doesn’t by Robert G. Kaiser
17. Demystifying Public Speaking by Lara Hogan
18. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
19. The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
20. The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City by Misha Glouberman, Sheila Heti
21. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
22. Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
23. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
24. Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
25. Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung
26. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
27. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
28. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
29. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
30. They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
31. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
32. One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
33. The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
34. See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng
35. Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose
36. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
37. Startup by Doree Shafrir
38. The Leavers by Lisa Ko
39. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
40. The Crown Ain’t Worth Much by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
41. Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
42. Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book by Jomny Sun
43. We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation by Jeff Chang
44. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
45. Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen
46. Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
47. Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman
48. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
49. The Idiot by Elif Batuman
50. Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
51. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
52. Chemistry by Weike Wang
53. Sourdough by Robin Sloan
54. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
55. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
56. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
57. The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
58. We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby
59. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
60. The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu