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Laughter is so important.
I voted for Hillary Clinton.
People love self-deprecating humor.
Laughing is important. It's healing.
I think Donald Trump might be racist.
Engineers love pretending to be beer snobs.
I didn't take myself seriously for a long time.
I was a user experience designer for Google Docs.
Trump is an amazing comedy writer without realizing it.
I don't want to spend my energy on people who don't like me.
I love book clubs. I just hate reading and talking to people.
Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.
Never, ever, ever show up to your office holiday party on time.
Facebook has created a rash of mental zombies in a meme-feeding frenzy.
You absolutely cannot be big time tech guy without attending Burning Man.
There's at least one person on every team that everyone likes to make fun of.
If you think having a tech job is the answer to all your problems, think again.
Twitter is a cesspool but I find I can ignore most of the cess most of the time.
Open mics are a great way to rework your material to see what punchlines land best.
Selling an idea to a publisher is not as valuable as selling your audience to a publisher.
For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.
My inability to stick with any journal or calendar has been a pattern for God-since-forever.
The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.
Who's more annoying to work with, boomers or millennials? Depends on how you feel about emojis.
I had been writing and performing stand-up comedy pretty much the entire time I worked at Google.
I used to think Medium was a pretty pure place and then the MAGA hats started showing up here too.
I know I feel crazy when I'm stressed out. You know when I don't feel crazy? When I'm in my nap pod.
There's no faster way to get on the good side of most engineers than making fun of product managers.
20 or 30 exclamation points can go a long way to making the tone of your email excited and cheerful.
Finding your voice as a stand up comedian means deeply knowing who you are as an artist and a human being.
Stealing something from Apple is the most innovative way to be seen as an innovative, digital-first company.
Believe it or not, joining a video conference call from home doesn't always have to make you feel like an idiot.
When you're Jamaican, you don't consider yourself African American even though everyone else considers you that.
You can tell a lot about a woman by her email signature. Actually you can't but for some reason people do anyway.
Women say things that are direct - they are told they are too abrasive. I got that feedback in the corporate world.
One of the reasons I moved to San Francisco was the weather. And then I realized that I really don't like being outside.
Engineers aren't professional grammarticians, but they love correcting people. Even more, they love making you feel stupid.
I can't tell you how excited I was when I joined my first book club, but I can tell you how much I immediately regretted it.
Wearing a giant, over-sized scarf will make you look deeply intelligent in almost any situation, but especially a book club.
I didn't set out to be a Trump impressionist at all. It wasn't that I wanted to be Trump. It's that I was asking, 'What if Trump was me?'
Most people see a job offer from Google as a victory, and I should have seen it that way. I should have at least seen the salary that way.
If we want little girls and young women and people of color to see they have a place in the tech world, it's up to us to make that place for them.
Nothing makes everyone feel more like the meeting was worth it, than ending by saying it would be good to follow up when everyone's in the same place.
Nothing is more embarrassing than calling someone the wrong name, but nothing is harder than trying to pretend you know someone's name when you don't.
I've always felt unsure of exactly what I wanted to do with my life, but I have these rare moments of total clarity where everything is perfectly clear.
I just want everyone who voted for Donald Trump to get what they deserve. But then I remember most people didn't vote for him, and they shouldn't suffer.
Sarah Cooper sounds like a character on 'The O.C.,' who was written out in season two, and it's like she moved into my body and gentrified my whole personality.
If you're ever struggling for something to say, just take a noun and verbalize it. Using simple words in new and interesting ways will creativize your presence.
If you want to add visuals to your blog posts, presentations or whatever it is, and you're as bad at drawing as I am, I think tracing photos is a good place to start.
Getting up and drawing a Venn diagram is a great way to appear smart. It doesn't matter if your Venn diagram is wildly inaccurate, in fact, the more inaccurate the better.