Tag: featured
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I want to meet you in 2019 — yes, you!
If there’s one thing I’ve learned on my startup journey, it’s the value of a network. Over the last year I’ve met hundreds of amazing people who have opened their doors and calendars to me and my team to mentor, give feedback, make connections, or just chat through our challenges. And I’m ready to pass […]
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Founding a Startup Amidst Loss and Grief
Around this time last year, I wrote a post called On Working While Grieving. It feels like an eternity ago, because so much has changed; yet here I find myself again, writing a post about loss and commitment. The last time I wrote was in April, and I haven’t had the gusto to write again […]
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Goodbye, Microsoft! My Next Chapter
For the last four years Microsoft has been my world, my launchpad, and my home. When I first started, I was an eager young university student developing Windows 8.1 apps, and Trendy Techie was still mostly a fashion blog. My mentors and experiences at Microsoft helped to craft me into the person I am today, […]
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Elon Musk Can’t Save Us from the Singularity
Elon Musk’s latest venture, Neuralink, aims to augment our minds with brain-computer interfaces. But what are the implications for the future of humanity?
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Everything You Need to Build A Chatbot
Bots are the new apps! Here are the tools I use to build my bots, teach them, and deploy them to the public.
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Trendy Techie Meets Prime Minister Trudeau
On June 1, 2016, I had the incredible honour of being one of eight young Canadians to attend a private meeting at Parliament Hill with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and COO of Instagram Marne Levine. It is such a rare opportunity for a young person to share her honest opinions about a country with its leader, and I am truly honoured to have been invited to this discussion.
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You Are Not “Too Pretty to Code”
He meant it as a compliment, and I’m sure he thought I’d think he was charming when he said I was “too pretty to code,” but I took it for what it really was: an ignorant devaluing of my intelligence.
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Three Empowering and Inspiring Books Every Girl Should Read
These three books have helped me enter the workforce early and confidently, and I believe all girls would benefit from these empowering success stories of high-powered women: Miki Agrawal, Sophia Amoruso and Sheryl Sandberg.
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The Road to Microsoft – My Journey from Student Partner to Intern to Full Time in 2 Years
I am a twenty-one year-old student pursuing a Bachelor of Computer Science degree at Dalhousie University and, for the most part, I am exactly like my peers – except that I also work full time at Microsoft. Now that I’ve officially started my career, the question I get asked most is “how?” It’s very rare that companies […]
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How Holograms Could Change Fashion Forever
The tech world went wild when Microsoft announced HoloLens, a wearable computer that bridges the gap between the physical and digital realms and makes holograms a reality (see my article from the day of the announcement here). The first question on everyone’s minds was “does it work as well as they say it does?” Now that […]
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