I built a study tool for my class that crowdsourced information, which ended up helping my classmates perform better on the final exam.

I built a website called Course Match to help students at Harvard connect based on the courses they were taking, which highlighted people's desire to understand their peers.

I noticed that many local businesses had poor websites, so I decided to leverage my skills and help them improve their online presence while making some money in high school.

The first project I built in college was called CourseMatch, which helped students see what classes their peers were taking, but I lost it when my laptop fried.

I wrote a script to keep my session active during the licensing course, which was misinterpreted as cheating, although I had passed the exam legitimately.

I got bored with my PhD research on measuring programming skills because some findings were uncomfortable for universities, revealing that students who scored well on exams might not actually understand programming.

I publicly demonstrated using Interview Coder during an Amazon interview, highlighting how easy it is to hack the interview process.

In the early days, we learned that the internet can be a nasty place, constantly under attack from botnets and scans.

I learned the importance of understanding existing code when I tried to rewrite a solution without realizing it was already effectively solved by someone else.