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Finding America's Most Wallet-Crushing ZIP Codes

International student + American rental market = instant financial trauma. But why panic alone when you can build an interactive map and panic with data? Now my housing dread has hover effects.

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How Behavioral Design in a Cafeteria Reduced Waste Upwards of $300,000/yr

Sometimes the best research insights come from watching people do the exact opposite of what they just told you. This is the story of how I learned that everyone is the hero of their own anti-food-waste narrative.

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4 Walls and a Reality Check. Designing for 56,000 Housing Insecure Students in Los Angeles

The hardest part about tackling LA's student housing crisis wasn't the 6-12 year construction timelines or the billions of dollars needed. It was spending 80% of my time explaining that maybe we don't need to build our way out of this one.

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The 'Easy' Class that Rewired My Brain

Sometimes the best lessons come from the classes you least want to take. This is the story of how I tried to game the credit system and accidentally learned how to build products that don't suck.

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Finding America's Most Wallet-Crushing ZIP Codes

How Behavioral Design in a Cafeteria Reduced Waste Upwards of $300,000/yr

4 Walls and a Reality Check. Designing for 56,000 Housing Insecure Students in Los Angeles

The 'Easy' Class that Rewired My Brain

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