The transgender “issue” has come increasingly to the forefront of social consciousness in many parts of the world, and I’m baffled at the desperate attempts of some to feel threatened by trans people. My experience of transgenderism (as of so many things) is unusual. I lived five years of my childhood in Bangkok. My dad… Continue reading Gender, sex, and all that jazz
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(Some of) What I did at TVBLOB
Found an old piece of video that reminded me of some of the fun and challenging things I did at TVBLOB, Fabrizio Caffarelli’s second startup, including: Software interface and interaction design: Developed feature requests into step-by-step schematics of UI states and behaviors , worked with engineers to ensure correct and coherent implementation, worked with marketing… Continue reading (Some of) What I did at TVBLOB
Fuck-you money
In 2004, I attended a talk by Margaret Heffernan at a business women’s club in Milan. She was launching her then new book, The Naked Truth, and one of the key lessons she shared was that we all should be striving to earn “walk-away money” – the amount of money you’d need to safely walk away… Continue reading Fuck-you money
Doing it tough: California lockdown 2020
Translation for my non-Aussie readers: “Doing it tough” is an Australian expression that roughly means “to do something that is hard” (sometimes willingly, sometimes not), as in: “Melbourne has been doing it tough with lockdowns.” The Gregg-Straughan household also knows a thing or two about doing hard lockdown: we did it for eight months last… Continue reading Doing it tough: California lockdown 2020
US healthcare: hazardous to your health
When I got my first non-temporary job in the US, I had health insurance, but I soon started to experience the pains of for-profit healthcare. I was recently returned from study abroad in India, with lingering exotic health problems requiring expensive testing, which I had to pay up front and then wait to be reimbursed.… Continue reading US healthcare: hazardous to your health