Reflections on Growth and Lessons learned in 2021.

Last week's devastating news of an 18 year-old intern's parents' deaths (yes, plural) in India sent me straight into a spiral of grief, trauma and death reflections. I wrote this piece for anyone who has ever been dealing with grief. But most of all, I wrote this one for my grandpa in heaven.

What a decade March has been. Yet, there has never been a month I'm prouder of our team at Hacker Noon.

I remember it was during the last week of January when my American family & friends were all at a dinner table discussing what was then a foreign, "China-contained" new disease called Coronavirus…