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Asian Real Estate Attitudes

As a first-generation Asian-American immigrant, the duality of Eastern and Western culture is a part of everyday life. There are holidays and traditions on both sides that we end up celebrating; home-cooked meals that cater to multiple styles of cooking; plurality in spoken languages; subconscious biases and expectations of our roles from society. Granted, I&...

Personal Electric Mobility

Remember the original Segway? When the company initially unveiled it in 2001 for $5,000, it was supposed to be the future of transportation , a self-balancing electric vehicle with a land speed somewhere between walking and biking with no rider effort needed outside of steering the machine. But beyond gimmick tours[1] and showing up...

California’s Wildfire Reckoning

The lengthy, yet just beginning wildfire season in California this year is already exhausting. Starting with the random dry lightning strikes sparking a trio of the largest wildfires our state has experienced on record, it...

Predicting how Remote Work Works

It is now month 5 of Bay Area's general Shelter-in-Place order, and even as the state and our area looks to reopen, the vast majority of companies who can still have employees operate...

The Library is Awesome

Like many parents of young children, our preparation for their arrival and guardianship unveiled for a whole new set of...infrastructure that supported young families, many of which we paid no attention to previously merely...