Workplace dynamics, the bamboo ceiling, entrepreneurship, and what building a professional life looks like when you are navigating more than one set of expectations. Candid coverage of money, advancement, and the unwritten rules that shape Asian American careers.
The bamboo ceiling starts at the resume screen. A practical guide to writing resume bullets that get past bias and applicant tracking software, with the callback data, a bullet formula, and before-and-after examples.
A practical guide to negotiating your salary, with market research tips, word-for-word scripts, and the mindset shift for anyone raised to keep their head down. Includes the data on why asking pays off.
The career conversation with Asian American parents is one of the hardest in immigrant families. A practical guide to pushing back without losing the relationship.
Multigenerational home buying hit an all-time high in 2024, and Asian American families are central to the trend. Why it’s happening, what it costs, and how to do it well.
Most Asian American adults were raised to let their work speak for itself. The job market increasingly doesn’t allow that. A guide to building a personal brand without compromising who you are.
Twenty percent of Asian Americans send money to relatives, three times the national average. Here’s what that actually costs, in dollars and trade-offs, and how to plan around it.
The technology industry has a specific version of the bamboo ceiling. Asian Americans are dramatically overrepresented in technical roles at major technology companies — making up a significant share of engineering, product, and data science teams at Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon — and dramatically underrepresented in the executive and board roles that set…
Salary negotiation is difficult for almost everyone. For many Asian Americans, it carries additional cultural weight that makes it feel nearly impossible. The values instilled in many Asian American households — humility, deference to authority, gratitude for opportunity — run directly counter to what effective salary negotiation requires. Understanding how to negotiate your salary as…
Asian Americans leaving big tech has become a recognizable pattern. The career arc of many Asian American professionals in technology follows a recognizable pattern. Strong academic credentials lead to a position at a large technology company. Years of strong performance lead to senior individual contributor roles. And then, at some point in their 30s or…
The Asian American wealth gap is one of the most poorly understood features of this community’s economic life. The statistics on Asian American income are some of the most misleading numbers in American demographic data. Asian Americans have the highest median household income of any racial group in the United States. This fact is cited…
Asian American founders have built some of the most consequential companies of the current era. The list of Asian American founders who have built large companies is long enough now that it should have long since complicated the model minority myth’s vision of Asian Americans as employees, not leaders. Jensen Huang built Nvidia into one…
Talking to Asian parents about money is one of the most consistently difficult conversations in Asian American family life. Money is not a taboo subject in most Asian households — it’s a constant subject. Salaries are asked about directly. Rent and home prices are discussed openly. The cost of everything, from groceries to college tuition…