Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time. Footprints, that perhaps another sailing o’er life’s solemn main, a forlorn and shipwrecked brother, seeing, shall take heart again

4 books in a corner shelf chronicling my long gone grad student days. 2 inherited from the legendary Rodney Andrews. 1 gifted to me after I passed on my copy from Rodney to one of his other (and brightest) students

Ginkgo leaf on a chilly morning in Kendall Square. This is a cute physical representation of passage of time — 200 million years in the making. How fast this semester went by

Can’t stop thinking about the faces I met at a recent female scholar session. Growing up as an East Asian woman, I never imagined white women in my generation faced challenges too. I blame the movies. Life is more fun when we bond over the darkness we all experience and share a good laugh about it

It would be Dr. Rodney Andrews’s 49th (or 50?) birthday yesterday. Still tough. Still miss him. Still hundreds of moments where we thought what would Rodney say. Hundreds of moments I thought, would Rodney be impressed by my IV or my shoe leathers? One reason don’t want the other platform go

Grateful for the vibrating discussion at the Harvard Business School Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute seminar. It was an incredible experience!

Picture from the Confucius Museum, The Temple of Patriarch of Teaching in 2019. 子曰：“有教无类。” Confucius said, “ As a teacher, I believe education has no bounds. It is for all without discrimination.”