Jessica Ruan

“You already are. Don’t wait for a permission slip or a job title or a grant or an audition, you already are. Now go be.”

Location:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Professional title:

Software engineer

What do you do?

I explore puzzling questions and tell stories about them, and I write code along the way.

Why?

I want to produce something worthwhile. Before, I wanted to produce concrete things, like cool shiny projects with code, or cool shiny writing. Now I want to produce worthwhile experiences, experiences that entertain and inspire, through producing concrete things.

What should we read?

“Lab Girl” by Hope Jahren

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