According to LayoffsTracker, November has been the hardest hit month of the year when it comes to tech layoffs. So far, 100 companies have let go of nearly 50,000 employees as they try to ensure the long-term survival of their businesses (that’s a quarter of the 200,000 layoffs in 2022)…

This post is a reflection on Michael Lints’s article What can I do?, and explains why I got involved in one of my most important projects to date. — There’s a story I often tell close friends about my sister — Monique. Monique and I have an uncanny bond; she and I are separated by 8 years but she’s the sibling closest in age to me, and our lives have mirrored one another in interesting ways. She was the…

In a couple of weeks, Americans — mostly black Americans — will celebrate the 155th Juneteenth holiday. On June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation and two months after the Civil War formally ended, 250,000 African-American slaves living in Texas were finally informed of their liberation. News of…

Flashback to 2014: I was a Berkeley MBA student attending The Atlantic’s Navigate Tech Conference in San Francisco. They were hosting a fireside chat with Salman Khan, the visionary EdTech entrepreneur who started the online course site Khan Academy. For those who don’t know his story, Salman was a New…