An incomplete series of lists detailing what I built, wrote, cooked, talked about, and read in 2018.

Projects

• Finished my fifth year reading 52 books in 52 weeks
• Helped coordinate a sponsor for Flawless Hacks
• My sister and I launched season two of our podcast, Sweet and Sour, with a focus on independent Asian Americans creatives and entrepreneurs
• Completed The 100 Day Project, where I wrote 750 words of fiction every day for 100 days
• Selected to participate in AAJA’s Catalyst, a media entrepreneurship program for founders of color

Writing

• 52 Books in 52 Weeks, Year 4 (Personal blog)
• What I learned writing 750 words of fiction every day for 100 days (Medium)
• The Discomfort of Comfort Food (Slant’d)
• A few essays yet to be published

Speaking

Panel on how to break into a career in tech (July 2018, Her Conference)

Cooking

• Breakfast grilled cheese with soft scrambled eggs, for lunch while working from home on a snowy day (Bon Appetit)
• 东北红烧肉 / Northeastern style red-braised pork, for Chinese New Year (my mom’s recipe)
• Strawberry summer cake, for a friend’s birthday dinner (Smitten Kitchen)
• Marcella Hazan’s tomato sauce, for a lazy late-night dinner with E (NYT Cooking)
• Broccoli spaghetti, for weeknight dinners (Food 52)
• Easy sheet cake with chocolate-cream cheese frosting, for a friend’s birthday (Basically)
• Balthazar’s cream of mushroom soup, to test out my new immersion blender (Smitten Kitchen)
• Black and white cookies, for Saturday afternoon baking with a friend (Epicurious)
• Tagliatelle with poppy seeds and prosciutto, for a Saturday night in (Saveur)
• 茄子西红柿打卤面 / Eggplant tomato noodles, for when I was homesick (my mom’s recipe)
• Ultimate sugar cookies with royal icing, for office cookie day (Bon Appetit, Epicurious)
• Triple berry summer buttermilk bundt, for Christmas dinner (Smitten Kitchen)

Reading

56 total in 2018. For additional metadata and more details on how I choose the books I read, check out the corresponding spreadsheet.

1. Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorthms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
2. Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
3. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. My Friend Fear: Finding Magic in the Unknown by Meera Lee Patel
5. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
6. The Autobiography of Gucci Mane by Gucci Mane
7. Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
8. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
9. Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America edited by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding
10. Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want by Ruby Tandoh
11. An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
12. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil
13. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
14. This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
15. A Hope Divided by Alyssa Cole
16. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
17. The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown
18. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
19. Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
20. The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
21. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
22. Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai
23. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
24. Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
25. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
26. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
27. Do You Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare
28. The Pisces by Melissa Broder
29. Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker
30. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
31. The Power by Naomi Alderman
32. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
34. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
35. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
36. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
37. A Thousand Beginnings and Endings edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman
38. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay
39. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
40. Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings
41. Be Everything at Once: Tales of a Cartoonist Lady Person by Dami Lee
42. If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim
43. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
44. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
45. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
46. What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan
47. The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
48. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
49. All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
50. The Governess Game by Tessa Dare
51. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
52. The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo
53. The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
54. Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean
55. A Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole
56. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger