This article was originally posted on my website’s blog I recently surpassed 2000 classes taught on italki. This was an exciting milestone for me and one that made me reflect on a few things: how I got here, how I’m doing, and how I want to take things further. How I got here It…

I teach accent reduction, helping students of English to reduce their foreign accent and speak more like a native English speaker. Students often find it overwhelming to go from learning to correctly pronounce a target sound in class to consistently producing it in daily life. In this article, I outline…

Please note: italki originally posted my article an abridged form as a teacher success story. Here is the unabridged version. I teach accent reduction, helping English learners sound less foreign and more native. My background in linguistics and phonetics helps me teach students the subtle details that separate the average…

Introduction When conveying information, people often write memos, papers, or other blocks of text. However, in many industries, text is not enough, especially for industries dealing with tangible products or projects that have many complex, moving parts. In these cases, colors and textures can convey so much more than simply using…

I was in the middle of replying to his email when it hit me: why tell, when you can show? Besides, this could be good experience for a beginning UX design professional. Prologue I’m always seeking new ways to streamline my life and be productive, at times I even write about…

I’ve been using Blue Apron for several months now. For those of you who don’t know, this New York City company helps people (learn to) cook as well as avoid grocery shopping by sending its customers weekly recipes and cooking instructions, as well as all the necessary ingredients. For someone…

I am a big proponent of self-tracking. It allows you to monitor your own behavior and be more self aware, which is key to self improvement. I wrote last year about using Google Sheets to track my time for productivity. I found it difficult to keep up with this experiment…

People who know me know I am a productivity junkie. They know I like to learn and improve, and that I track myself quite a lot, because that’s what self development is based on. That’s why they weren’t too surprised when I announced one day that I would be tracking…