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Over the past few years, ever since writing "If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You", I've been contacted by people from all backgrounds who are inspired and want to learn physics, but don't know where to start, what to learn, what to read, and how to structure their studies...this post is a condensed version of what I've sent to people who have contacted me over the years, outlining what everyone needs to learn in order to really understand physics.
I have many different reasons for choosing books to read. Sometimes, I read to inform myself, to learn new things, to develop different aspects of myself. Other times, I read to counteract the forces in my own life, to bring into my day-to-day experience the things that I feel are missing…
Almost two years have passed since I discovered I was pregnant with my sweet daughter Seymour. Since that moment, I’ve found myself on the joyful, mystifying, wonderful journey that is motherhood and parenthood, experiencing everything incredible and terrible that comes with it…
To call the “intellectual dark web” a group of “heretics” with “dangerous ideas” and claim that their beliefs are based on rational and scientific thinking, is to do a grave disservice to the truth.
My father passed away eight years ago. Today would have been his 64th birthday.
When he died, family and friends told me that the grief would subside with time, that time would dull the pain. The grief has never subsided, and, if anything, the pain has only grown stronger each year. The world feels less bright, less wonderful, less good without him.
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As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying story that deserves to be told while it is still fresh in my mind, so here we go.