This past week, I spent some time perusing all the 2021 Greylock company websites in preparation for this year’s Techfair. After looking through quite a few, I began to notice the same patterns emerge. That made me wonder… Why did every landing page seem to have the same structural elements? …

I recently served on a postdoctoral teaching fellow review committee as a student leader at my school. My responsibilities included reviewing lots of syllabi, course proposals, and lecture videos made by postdocs. As I watched videos one after another, I noticed that a few of the candidates stood out more…

Last week, Texas Convergent hosted its Fall 2020 virtual Demo Day, showcasing a range of projects and products built by students in the computer science, business, engineering, and design school at UT Austin. Each semester, students in the Build Team program go through the idea brainstorming and product development process…

“We need to demand more of our culture, of our society. And we need to demand more from one another. We’re all necessary, and we can all contribute, to building.” — Marc Andreessen Back in April, Marc Andreessen wrote an article calling for society to build (see here). One quick…

Think back to the last item you bought. It could’ve been a shirt, headphones, kitchen utensils, an app — You probably picked it out because of the way it looked, the way it felt, or the way it worked. In short, you picked it out because of its design. It’s…

This was my experience from participating in UT Austin’s first-year Moody College of Communication Hackathon. A Little Background Info In an effort to spur digital innovation in the field of journalism, the Moody College of Communication launched this new initiative called Moody Hacks. The goal for this year’s hackathon was: Inform and engage the…