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	<title>go bold</title>
	<link>http://blog.christineyen.com</link>
	<description>another day, another blog</description>
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		<title>What a ride.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I signed a lease. I signed a lease that I negotiated down (helped in part by the current state of the real estate market), essentially decreasing rent per room in our five-bedroom by $200.
Today I ended a stint with a startup. I ended my time at Aardvark as part of The Mechanical Zoo, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.christineyen.com/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Learning something new every day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After staring at a rake task for twenty minutes and manually testing some cases in a console, I&#8217;ve got some interesting larnin&#8217;s about ActiveRecord::Base.find and what it does with an options hash.
Background
There are typically two ways to provide conditions for a database search via ActiveRecord. The first is find, which looks like this most of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.christineyen.com/?p=119</link>
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		<title>One step in the right direction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think the world should be a meritocracy.
There, I went and said it. Come and get me, I&#8217;m ready.
First, my definition of merit: the quality of a person&#8217;s contribution to a given environment for the role they have been commissioned to fill. This means hiring someone or rewarding someone based on what they can do, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.christineyen.com/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Who doesn&#8217;t love pretty pictures?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
My &#8216;persona,&#8217; via some crazy Media Lab grad student&#8217;s project &#8211; mostly (it seems) built from some snippet of text a friend wrote about me once, that seems to have since dropped off the internet.
Everyone likes pretty pictures. And most of the nerdy part of &#8220;everyone&#8221; likes graphs. And everyone definitely likes to learn about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.christineyen.com/?p=103</link>
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		<title>Satisfaaaacation.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think I wrote something awhile back about good companies vs. good people &#8211; but what about good companies vs. good work? I just finished up a conversation with a friend who&#8217;s in the situation of being in love with the company he works at, but hates the tedious, somewhat degrading, but admittedly necessary work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.christineyen.com/?p=99</link>
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		<title>Slick, slick, slickity slick.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For four years at college, and for the four years before that in high school, I loved carrying a small paper planner around with me. I scribbled down homework assignments, highlighted tests and important meetings, and would draw colored bars across the bottoms of vacation days.
There was a lot of satisfaction gotten in the ability [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.christineyen.com/?p=96</link>
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		<title>You should be prepared to make this start-up the primary focus of your life.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this line recently in the middle of a job posting, and I had a strong reaction &#8211; two, actually, in opposite directions. First, one of amusement and being mildly taken aback. Sure, they&#8217;re honest, but that&#8217;s a bit of an aggressive and unrealistic requirement, isn&#8217;t it? I almost wanted to scoff, &#8216;Who are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.christineyen.com/?p=90</link>
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		<title>Impetus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to be on my own case this summer. Last summer I was in San Francisco, I was very comfortable &#8211; I took the last shuttle home (at 7pm!) every day, couldn&#8217;t do work at home (no VPN access for interns!), so did a lot of relaxing, watching Alias, and cooking.
I&#8217;d had the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.christineyen.com/?p=85</link>
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		<title>Readymades</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was at the SF MoMA this past weekend &#8211; and if you&#8217;ve ever been, you&#8217;ll (hopefully) know that in their standing collection is a set of art from a number of particularly interesting artists, one of whom (Duchamp) is known best for a work photographed here. This is Fountain:
It&#8217;s a urinal. It&#8217;s a run-of-the-mill, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.christineyen.com/?p=83</link>
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		<title>Too many ideas!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I need a brain recorder. Not a notepad, or a voice-recognizing to-do list, or an iPhone app I can access anywhere, but a straight-up biodevice that hooks up to my brain and, when I realize I&#8217;m thinking a semi-coherent and somewhat interesting thought that needs a little more munching on, jots it down somewhere for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.christineyen.com/?p=81</link>
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