Hi, I’m Kat.
I like learning things on my own terms and writing about what I learn. I find beauty in the mundane parts: making forward progress every day, waking up and doing it again, a little different each time.
Most people already know what they want to start — they’re just waiting for someone to go first. I’ve been following rabbit holes for as long as I can remember:
- In middle school, my Percy Jackson phase led me to self-studying Modern Greek for three years, running a linguistics Tumblr, and teaching myself Latin using a 1901 textbook digitized on Google Books.
- As a high schooler, I organized hackathons, tried my hand at bioinformatics research, and founded Science and Us to introduce teens to the careers and anti-disciplinary mindset of science communication.
- Throughout college, I interned at tech startups including Replit, Gatsby, Cohere, and Primer. It all began with hitting “send” on a cold email.
- These days, outside of work at Notion, I’m studying for my personal training certification, dabbling in hobbies like knitting and personal finance, and curating an apartment interior that feels like a sanctuary.
We all have things we want to start one day, whether it’s as small as dusting off the watercolor set and sitting down to paint, or as big as starting your dream business. I treat both with the same level of care, and this website is where I write about what that looks like.
I love hearing from people who are figuring things out too — say hi!
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Based in NYC, often in SF