Again, been slow on the updates but it’s not surprising. I’ve been struggling with being on top of my other activities and maintaining a routine with all the recent travel (Guatemala, North Carolina, Mexico, Chicago) and work becoming busier.
At times, it has been frustrating but at others, it’s been easy to just get caught up in it and completely forget prioritizing other important activities.
The following is a a brief list of things I’ve been reading, seeing, thinking about, and listening to. It probably dates back to March when I originally intended on publishing this post but I did get around to it!
Books
- I know why the caged bird sings
- The Argonauts
- Open veins of Latin America
- The Whale
Movies
- Black Panther
- Una mujer fantastica
TV Shows
- Blue Planet II
- Jane the Virgin * Not a guilty pleasure! A show with depth, funny, and basically everything you want plus an intentional telling of latinx stories
- Ugly Delicious
Music
- Black Panther album
- This is America
Podcasts
- Goop and Oprah
- How technology is designed to bring out the worst in us
- Malware from Outerspace
- Codeswitch Census Watch 2020
- Code2040: Combatting Tech’s Diversity Problem
- Deportation Meets Musical Theater in ‘Miss You Like Hell’ (which I recently saw and it broke my heart)
- Navigating the maze of higher education
- The Difficult Math Of Being Native American
- RESETTING HORMONES, WEIGHT & THE CONVERSATION AROUND WOMEN’S HEALTH
Articles
- Michelle Wolf Did Her Job. It’s the Correspondents’ Dinner That Is the Problem.
- The Great Tech Panic: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Worry About
- When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing
- Building a more inclusive way to search
- 5 Ways to Be a More Earth-Conscious Beauty Consumer
- Why Recycling Won’t Save The Planet (And The One Change That Actually Might)
- Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
- Can Venezuela be saved?
- Stephen Hawking, in his own words
- Enjoy Your Job in Software? You Have a Woman to Thank
- Passing the Torch: Denzel Washington and Michael B. Jordan
- I Was a Bad Student Who Became an Astronaut. Let’s Stop Telling People They Can’t Be Good at Science
- Experts rip Ray Ozzie’s plan for unlocking encrypted phones
On my mind
- Been thinking a lot about ww and police and how the police mainly due to these recent incidents
- #MeToo and reevaluating my male role models and heroes and how to think of them post accusations
- Plastic use with delivery and for corporate lunches
Intentions / Plans
- To use my blog more intentionally and maybe, even to blog more frequently.
- To bike as often as possible now that it’s warm (and I have no more excuses)
- Moderate my phone use before I go to sleep and after
- I’m training for my first triathlon! Going forward, most of my workouts will keep that in mind
- Still attempting to organize a hackathon and study for a certification but progress has been slow
