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How to Receive Feedback Without Getting Defensive

Adopt the SAIG Mindset

3 min readFeb 13, 2020

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How to Receive Feedback Without Getting Defensive

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Better Programming

Code • Life

We are already doing these things for our code, why not do them for our lives?

8 min readMay 1, 2019

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Code • Life

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Open Sourced Thoughts

Bulldozer Brain vs. Rabbit Brain in Meetings

The awareness of the co-existence of bulldozer brains and rabbit brains is critical to making meetings effective and inclusive.

5 min readOct 25, 2018

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Bulldozer Brain vs. Rabbit Brain in Meetings

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Medium Engineering

Microservice Architecture at Medium

We would love to share our experiences of moving to microservice architecture effectively and avoiding “microservice syndromes”.

16 min readOct 17, 2018

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Microservice Architecture at Medium

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~Shirt Thoughts

1 min readDec 9, 2016

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~Shirt Thoughts

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Open Sourced Thoughts

No-laptop Meeting Manifesto

Thoughts about being mindful and achieving the most with minimal meeting time

1 min readNov 4, 2016

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Open Sourced Thoughts

The Ultimate Flow of Programming I Dream of Described in Three Videos

#1. Use the simplest tools to build the most magnificent systems.

1 min readMay 14, 2016

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Open Sourced Thoughts

Dear Matt, Happy 6th birthday! ❤

5 min readApr 28, 2016

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Dear Matt, Happy 6th birthday! ❤

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Open Sourced Thoughts

Open Letter to Twitter

Dear Twitter,

2 min readMar 3, 2016

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Inspiring Computer Science Posters From CS@Tsinghua

I recently stumbled upon nine posts made for its Student Festival by the Computer Science department at Tsinghua University, the top CS…

2 min readDec 22, 2015

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Inspiring Computer Science Posters From CS@Tsinghua

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Xiao Ma

Xiao Ma

Chief Architect @Medium. Serving Engineers. Teaching Machines. The ultimate goal of tech is to help us live better. Built @PatternInsight PhD @IllinoisCS UCSD

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