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The Language Barrier Blank Stare
I started to sweat as I looked at the Costa Rican grocery worker who was waiting for me to respond. Not one word of what he said landed, despite my two months of Duolingo practice. I wasn’t equipped for this basic grocery store interaction, and I didn’t even have the words to tell him I…
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117 Hours
The longest week I ever worked was 117 hours. This was during the dot com boom when arbitrary and unrealistic deadlines were even more normal than they may be today. My schedule during some of those weeks would make the Chinese 996 schedule look like a vacation. On top of this, I was going to…