8 min
Xinjiang Shao
My 2025 Reflection: A Year of AI, Exploration, and Growth
Personal reflections on 2025: navigating the AI revolution, rediscovering photography, traveling across continents, and finding balance in a year of rapid change.
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Life outside the editor: learning to swim as an adult, cooking unfamiliar cuisines, a winter across the British Isles, and yearly reflections.
6 posts tagged with “Personal Growth”
8 min
Xinjiang Shao
Chasing Stories Across the British Isles
A Winter Journey Through the UK and Ireland: Exploring London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and More
12 min
Xinjiang Shao
The Field Guide for Learning Swimming as an Adult
From zero laps to 1000 yards: A practical, honest guide to learning swimming as an adult, including what gear to buy, how to structure lessons, and what actually works.
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Xinjiang Shao
Bye 2021, Hello 2022
Moving to the suburbs, running half the days of the year, baking sourdough and getting a driver's license — what I started in 2021 and want to try next.
6 min
Xinjiang Shao
2017 Year At A Glance
A year of meal kits, food waste and a grocery co-op, alongside shipping Order Status at Peapod, starting a hackathon and mentoring our first interns.
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Xinjiang Shao
Cooking & Coding
A year of cooking unfamiliar cuisines taught me what engineering does: you get good by practicing, reading and failing. Plus the daily rules I set.