A Product Critique What’s your favorite grocery retailer? Walmart? Publix? Giant? Safeway? For most Texans, the answer is clear — H-E-B, a regional grocery store based in San Antonio. H-E-B’s cult following is reflecting in consumer data. The Retailer Preference Index by dunnhumby, a global customer data science firm, measures…

Part 1: Product Strategy — If you paid attention to my Fitbit stats in college, it would be easy to tell when I moved off campus. I had a 20-minute walk to class and it seemed like an eternity. Thankfully, I took the solitude as an opportunity to become part of the 13% of Americans…

Strengthening Customer Relationships through Transparency — When I was in middle school, I swore off Hershey’s chocolate because of the lack of transparency in their supply chain. I don’t know where I learned about labor practices as an 11-year old, and though it didn’t last long, I still remember the disappointment I felt when I found…

Professional Relationships: Part 2 — In the last article of my Professional Relationships series, I wrote about the importance of building an authentic network. In this article, I’ll be writing about what has the most impact on your day-to-day work experience — your team and its culture. Whether you prefer intense collaboration, freedom to explore…

Professional Relationships: Part 1 — The relationships you form in the professional world are more important than you may think. For those of you that work for companies for 40+ hours each week, you spend around 2000 hours with colleagues each year. …

Why Blands Aren’t So Bad — Over the past 9 months, I’ve been working from home and minimizing my exposure to COVID-19, so companies that fit into my life easily and make my life easier (like Uber Eats) have become my best friend. In the past several months, convenience has become king in what I wear…

Treat your career like a business — For many young professionals, their primary focus is growing their career. Quickly. Constantly asking the question “how can I go further, faster?”. As new members of the workforce, it’s hard to know all the “growth hacks”. We can’t always know all the right things to do or say, and there…

Developing Society-Friendly AI — How many times have you opened a social media application this week? We live in a world where technology reigns supreme, and the rate of technology use is only steadily increasing. A recent docudrama on Netflix called The Social Dilemma highlighted many issues within the technology era, such as the…

Why Millennials are Pursuing Passions through Side Hustles — Recently, a friend interviewed me for her blog about Zillennial women, and as I prepared for the interview, I realized more and more of my connections — millennials — have started side-projects or “side-hustles”. Writing about millennials has become a tired trope, but as a young millennial, many of the…