Misc

Hobbies

• I run an Instagram account to share my cooking. I am pretty confident that I am a good cook! My specialty is Vietnamese and Asian food.
• I also love drawing so I document my progress of imperfect work here :)
• Currently rekindling my love for origami and reading
• Sometimes I play chess

Side Quests

• Ran a pop-up lunch business in 3 days in SF and got 10 orders :)

List 100

• Run a coffee popup. Design my own poster and menu of coffee.
• Redesign Hiroshi Ramen menu and website and actually go there and give the menu to them
• DM Riley Walz and ask him to join any crazy and adventurous idea her has
• Publish plus minus epsilon - a newsletter on technical deep dives on topics I'm curious about
• Walk to all SFPL branches
• Solve all problems in Cracking the Coding Interview
• Publish instructional game-based tutorials on reinforcement learning
• DM Mary Rose Cook for a coffee chat
• Reimplement Git in Python
• Open source Notion + Chrome Extension Integration
• Reach out to Joanna about hosting a Figma event for Minerva students (waiting for Joanna's response → she responded yay!)
• Publish an interactive tutorial on JPEG
• Publish an interactive tutorial on KNN
• Reach out to Savannah to ask how I can best contribute to Python and actually submit a PR.
• Contribute to React
• Publish a series on technical challenges of products I love and use often (Notion, Spotify, Youtube, Netflix, etc.)
• Finish Designing Data Intensive Applications
• Redesign Goodreads
• Create my own digital bookshelf
• DM 3 designers I admire for coffee chats
• DM 3 engineers I admire for coffee chats
• Finish Crafting Interpreters
• Ask Paper Son's owner if I can come and be a barista for a day :)
• Submit a story proposal to the Pudding
• DM a Brilliant engineer to ask how I can stand out if I want to work there as a new grad
• Finish High Performance Python Book
• Create a tool based on when2meet but better
• Create an interactive DSA explainer
• Create a visual story on K-Drama
• Create a visual story on the history of computing
• Submit a project to VISxAI 9th 2026
• Create a plugin in Figma
• Create an application (not sure what it is for now) that allows me to modify the web directly
• Create something in Blender
• Learn Strudel
• Finish The Nature of Code
• Finish Guns, Germs, and Steel
• Implement a text editor
• Develop Dear Data Project but a digital version
• Complete 31 days of Genuary 2026 (6 days completed, 25 to go!)
• Create a Spotify Wrap version for DataHub Team
• Finish Figma Learn