👋 Hi, I’m Niki…
Who Am I?
I’m the face behind this blog. I wanted to take time to introduce myself before you start exploring my writing. Lately, I’ve seen people give emoji intros so I decided to give it a try.
🇨🇷 I was born and raised in Costa Rica
🥤 When I was 15, I started my own natural healthy soda business
🇺🇸 I moved to the US when I was 18 years old for college
🌲 I went to Stanford and majored in SymSys and minored in Data Science
👩💻 I currently build product at Asana and help teams work together effortlessly
🏦 I have previously done stints in consulting, banking, venture capital and startups (LinkedIn)
🌉 I live in SF — love this city and everything it has to offer
🧠 I am very passionate about the human brain and neuroscience
⏰ I’m a fan of productivity and time management
💡My zone of genius is building systems and processes that help humans find flow
📖 I love reading, especially non-fiction books
🧘♀️ I practice meditation and mindfulness
📷 I love capturing the world around me through pictures
✍️ I write and journal a lot!
☀️ I’m a morning person
🤪 Oh, and if you haven’t been able to tell, I’m a BIG emoji person
What’s This Blog About?
This blog is a record of my life and all I’ve learned. I explore topics about work, about life, and how the two intersect. Here’s a list of topics my blog will touch upon at one point or another —
- Work: Interview tips, Product management, Career development, Productivity & time management, Finding flow, Optimizing your work days
- Life: Habit development, Hobbies, Fun, Relationships, Happiness, Personal development, Book reviews
As always, I would love to make the blog relevant to my readers, so if you have any ideas for topics I should write about or have feedback about my writing, please fill out this form.
What I Hope to Achieve
My only hope is that this blog is useful for my readers, and that I can form a community of individuals who strive to be the best version of themselves. That said, it’s impossible to write content that every single person who reads it will never forget. So, my hope is that each reader, in aggregate:
- Likes 60% of what I write
- Loves 40% of what I write
- and Never Forgets 20% of what I write
If at any point you feel like I’m not achieving that for you, please leave me feedback here or email me directly (nbirkner99@gmail.com). I would love to hear from you!
A Parting Thought
As we begin on this journey to find happiness, flow and balance in a world otherwise full of chaos, always be grounded by the idea that…
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote towards which you are ceaselessly striving.”
— Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
What’s This Blog About?
This blog is a record of my life and all I’ve learned. I explore topics about work, about life, and how the two intersect. Here’s a list of topics my blog will touch upon at one point or another —
- Work: Interview tips, Product management, Career development, Productivity & time management, Finding flow, Optimizing your work days
- Life: Habit development, Hobbies, Fun, Relationships, Happiness, Personal development, Book reviews
As always, I would love to make the blog relevant to my readers, so if you have any ideas for topics I should write about or have feedback about my writing, please fill out this form.
What I Hope to Achieve
My only hope is that this blog is useful for my readers, and that I can form a community of individuals who strive to be the best version of themselves. That said, it’s impossible to write content that every single person who reads it will never forget. So, my hope is that each reader, in aggregate:
- Likes 60% of what I write
- Loves 40% of what I write
- and Never Forgets 20% of what I write
If at any point you feel like I’m not achieving that for you, please leave me feedback here or email me directly (nbirkner99@gmail.com). I would love to hear from you!
A Parting Thought
As we begin on this journey to find happiness, flow and balance in a world otherwise full of chaos, always be grounded by the idea that…
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote towards which you are ceaselessly striving.”
— Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
Oh, and one last thing: If you’re interested in receiving email updates when I publish an article, please follow me by going to my profile and clicking Follow.
With appreciation,
Niki
