Yan Fan 📍Tokyo @yanarchy Twitter profile

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

I’ve always wanted to start a company and have it be kid-friendly. @codechrysalis

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

I found out today that on Chinese social media, there’s a trending hashtag that translates to white people meals lol “I was so tired I ate a white people meal today” One of hashtags is also “white people meals are still meals”

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

6 years

Female software engineers—if you’re planning a trip to Tokyo, please reach out. There are VERY few female software engineers in Tokyo and I would love to connect you with the scene to either meet and inspire women here or give a tech talk. Please share. @girlie_mac @AysSomething

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

This poster is a good snapshot of why Japan has trouble closing the gender gap.

浜洲那智

@ooooosame

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@jimin_koho

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

9 months

Have you heard of the Japanese concept of onara (屁)? It is used to describe when you let out the wind inside of you, oftentimes leading to inner peace and relief.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

Dumbass-gaijin confession Thursday: I usually have someone else to write my name in katakana. Because when I write it, I always end up as Yaso Faso.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

I recently learned that Chinese and Japanese soy sauce are totally different. For the last five years, I thought I was just bad at cooking Chinese food. Turns out, I was just using the wrong type of soy sauce.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

I'm really lucky to be able to live in Japan, but not need to deal with most Japan bullshit.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

11 months

Restarted Japanese classes at a new school and this is the name of the textbook lol

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

I’m renewing my drivers license right now and it involves sitting through a two hour lecture. I asked one of the staff if it was ok that I didn’t speak Japanese and they seemed to not care at all if I understood or not. 🤷🏻‍♀️ ok

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

What happened to autumn, Japan? Where are the four seasons?

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

8 months

The only perk of a weak JPY is that all of my friends visiting Tokyo have taken pity on me and treated me to nice dinners.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

International Women’s Day. Ugh. Instead of having panels of the same groups of women from privileged backgrounds, we should be interviewing the underpaid daycare workers, nurses, and teachers and figuring out how to pay them their fair share. Feminism isn’t just #girlboss .

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

Lol I’ll check back in 100 years

Gender equity is coming to Japan's workplaces

Women are getting a lift from family, social and corporate developments

asia.nikkei.com

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

I am being featured in @googlejapan ’s #WomenWill campaign on Instagram! Check out the stories here:

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

10 months

Can you imagine buying decent Red Sox tickets for under $30 with $5 beers brought to your seat and a plethora of food options for under $8? And then they throw in fireworks? And you don’t have to worry about violence? And the toilets aren’t gross!

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

6 months

When I first met a Japanese neighbor on my floor, she told me she had studied Mandarin in university. So when she said something to me in Mandarin, I replied “上手🤗” even though it was unintelligible. But now she mostly speaks to me in unintelligible Chinese 😅 I am trapped!

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

7 months

Went to the hospital for a procedure that took less than 7 minutes. And out of an abundance of caution, they made me stay under observation for three hours and gave me food.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

Earthquake alarm didn’t go off. Likely because it’s late. Clocks out at 9pm and goes to an izakaya with ATM-san.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

Unexpected.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

Got a message on LinkedIn today from the CTO of another company who interviewed a recent bootcamp grad 🥺🥺 Messages like these mean the world to me and I'm beyond happy to see our alums kicking ass out in the world. @codechrysalis

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

Today is the 5th anniversary 🎂 of @codechrysalis . No journey is without its challenges, but the last five years have been incredibly meaningful. For the past 7 months, I have been leading a complete reorganization of CC. I do not think I have ever learned this much in my life.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

6 years

Omg Twitter eng family, I’m feeling so inspired by your response—bear 🐻 with me while I reply to everyone. While I have your attention, my colleague and I put together a list of female tech events and orgs in Tokyo 👩🏻‍💻: Check it out!

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

10 months

Belated life update but I got married a few months ago in Chile’s Colchagua Valley. Very thankful for all of our friends who traveled to the edge of the world to celebrate with us.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

My Japanese practice lately has been asking every taxi driver what they did last weekend. #japanlife

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

Japanese is like the Haskell of human languages.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

Ya'll, one of our @codechrysalis graduates got a software engineering offer from Google this week 🎉🎉🎉. It's been their dream company for ages. I feel like such a proud butterfly mama. This is our second Noogler! ✨ #dreamscometrue #codechrysalis #codingbootcamps

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

These are the shoes we wear at @codechrysalis in Tokyo. No need for heels, unless you want to! We work in what’s comfortable. #KuToo #KuToo 運動

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

I dressed up as a nondenominational holiday tree. Also matched my handbag so it is fashun.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

10 months

I think one of the difficulties of growing (not even scaling) a company in Japan is the lack of growth experience in the job market. You have people who have only always worked in big, mid-sized, or small companies. Sometimes you get a gem who has worked in 2+ sizes.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

For the first time ever, I’m going on vacation without my laptop in tow, with Slack deleted from my phone, and a vacation email responder on. 😱😱😱 A huge entrepreneurship milestone! 🏔

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

11 months

Went to an event where it was brought up how there were more than 2 women attendees this time and yay. Then one of the woman said to the room of mostly men “I am a woman but inside, I am a man teehee” To give you an idea of how bad things are in Japan re gender equity.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

Twitter fam! I've got two job openings @codechrysalis . No 日本語 required (but pref). 1. Student Experience Manager (driving our student experience for all programs) 2. Admissions Associate Email careers @ codechrysalis dot io if you're interested!

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

10 months

Tokyo government: provide tax breaks to land owners for planting trees. This city gets hotter and hotter every year. @konotaromp

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

6 months

All I’m asking for is a city with all the safety, healthcare, toilets, and public transit of Tokyo, the career opportunities, capital markets, and ambition of NYC, the non-CCP energy of Shanghai, and the tax laws of Singapore with the weather of LA. Is that too much to ask for?

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

I’ve been hiding out in the south of Chile. Here are some pictures of ice and things.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

I should name my future dog Jackie so that in Japan, everyone will call her Jackie-Chan. 🐶🐾

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

TeamLab should do a horror/ghost/paranormal themed exhibit.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

We celebrated @codechrysalis ’s five year anniversary last night. These two have been with @munidk and me from even before the start. A spouse can make it or break it for entrepreneurs. We’re very lucky to have supportive and understanding partners that allow us to do this.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

6 years

Wow, we are in the Japan Times.

Silicon Valley-style coding boot camp seeks to reset Japan Inc.

Barely six months after inaugurating a tiny software-coding boot camp in a basement in Tokyo, Silicon Valley transplant Kani Munidasa stood before some of Japan's top business leaders in February...

www.japantimes.co.jp

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

This man knows logic. The baloney I find on LinkedIn. You’re living in a country full of economic opportunity, females. You can do everything from serve tea to bowing while serving tea.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

6 years

Hey techies visiting Tokyo! @MarySedJP and I compiled a list of cool places to visit if you're a techie! Check it out here: @codechrysalis #tokyotech #teamlabborderless #japanlife #tokyolife

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

10 months

6 years 😵 one of the few photos with majority of the team together minus several faces. Was excruciatingly difficult to get to this point. Don’t start companies unless you like pain.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

Ambulances drive so slowly in Japan. I was following behind one today and wanted to over pass it because it was driving at the speed limit (who does that??). Unless you're in some state that requires EMT support, you're better off jumping in a cab and saying you're late.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

I think I accidentally gave Japanese funeral flowers to a Japanese friend a few weeks ago NOT for a funeral. I didn't realize it until just now. AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! #japanlife

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

Decided to treat myself on this Friday night so I went to the grocery store and bought some fruit. Which in Japan means I spent ~$40usd on two mangoes and some strawberries. #japanlife

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

I wrote a thing on LinkedIn. At first it didn't post properly and I fixed it after realizing ::shakes first angrily:: Here's my response to an article/op-ed that was written in the BBC about a stagnating Japan: TLDR: I disagree.

Japan IS changing but we can do even more

Signs of a changing Japan are all over -- if you know where to look. They are increasingly clear across swaths of Japanese society, from the expanding startup e

www.linkedin.com

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

Our technical staff has equal male-female ratios + a small percentage identifying as neither. I always hear that this is impossible to achieve in Japan, so @codechrysalis proves it is POSSIBLE. We're hiring btw! Please ping me if you're interested. We have a lot of open jobs.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

Yokohama is pretty nice during the week. No crowds, no lines.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

Nature is returning

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

Just made my first reservation to something all in Japanese. Yay progress! #japanlife

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

Took Potato on his annual pilgrimage to the dog shrine on Mt. Mitake yesterday. Look at that face of joy he has. Long live the Potato!

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

Working out is very gendered. I’m usually the only woman in the weights area in Japan. What ends up happening is that women don’t lift enough heavy things and suffer from weaker bones. And men don’t ever develop enough flexibility and mobility.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

We celebrated our 2 year anniversary last night. It was incredible seeing so many friendly faces that have helped us over the years. Most importantly, the two people behind @munidk and me. Without their support and sacrifice, @codechrysalis would not have happened. Thank you. 😘

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

Who wants to see us fight? @SaigonSyle @codechrysalis @LeWagonTokyo

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

6 years

Oh wow Twitter 🤗 I go teach a programming workshop, come back, and my little tweet has gone mini-viral. Thank you to everyone! And for those who have reached out, I’m replying as fast as my thumbs can go.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

Living in Japan, we don’t really feel the effects of inflation. Currently planning a trip to Boston and these prices are bonkers. A private room in a YOUTH HOSTEL (with a shared bathroom) in Boston is currently $250/night, wo tax 🤯 The Hilton is $450, Mandarin O is $1000+ 😱

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

I ate half a little cup of natto for breakfast today and didn’t mind it! 🥳🥳 I’ve been trying to like natto ever since I moved here since it’s readily available and nutritious. So indifference towards it is an improvement from gagging!! 🥇

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

11 months

My stupid tweet made it onto CNN

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

Can we start calling the men “boybosses”?

Ashley Mayer

@ashleymayer

2 years

This sexist, lazy and mean spirited article is deeply embarrassing for the New York Times, and sends yet another message to women founders who already feel like they’re building with a target on their backs.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

6 years

My nicknames for places/things in Tokyo: 新宿 > Shinjukes 赤坂 > Akasaks 六本木 > Ropps 渋谷 > Shibs 丸の内 > the Nooch 代官山 > D-yama 東京 > Toks 横浜 > Yoko 代々木 > Yoyo 中目黒 > Nakamegs Do you have any? Credit to @chantlong who I found out is my Tokyo nickname buddy.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

I’m speaking at NOT ANOTHER ALL-MALE PANEL next week. Yes, that’s the actual name 😂😂

Code Chrysalis 🦋

@codechrysalis

1 year

Our next featured speaker for the #NotAnotherAllMalePanel is our very own @yanarchy ! Yan is Code Chrysalis's co-founder and co-CEO, and has assisted in many different organizations to help #WomenInSTEM such as @Waffle_org and @speakherjapan ✨

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

My husband is doing nearly all the wedding planning for our delayed nuptials and it is AMAZING. All I did was create a PowerPoint about the things I expect and now I hear him on Zoom calls with our wedding planner talking about naked cakes, florals, and alpacas in Spanish 🤣🤣

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

10 months

I should start an overheard in Minato-ku Twitter account.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

@katakana_kurisu Hahaha, hachisososo

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

My partner tested positive for COVID on my birthday a few days ago and now I've tested positive, too. He's always been great with gift-giving. Just a mild sore throat for now. I guess I'll see how my immune system stands up to this. 🎢 Great start to 33!

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

Perfect weather.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

11 months

Why does this article make my eyes roll so much? “Have you discovered the ancient Japanese art of shokupan??”

So long, sourdough. I’m a sando man now

Japanese ‘shokupan’ is sweet, fluffy and lovely — with a cultural history that will make your head hurt

www.ft.com

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

6 years

Had to turn on the toilet seat warmer today. That’s Japanese for...

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

Just took a practice kanji exam for Japanese. My fleeting Chinese knowledge automatically puts me in N2 for kanji level. Yay!! 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳 Now I just need to learn the rest of the language and you know, how to speak it...boooooo. ㊗️㊗️

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

Very sad to have received this news today. Idei-san was an early believer of @codechrysalis , championing us when we had just started the company. He lent us his credibility and pushed opened doors as our advisor. Thank you for your time. Rest In Peace.

Sony's former chief, who pushed content but missed iPod wave, dies at 84

Nobuyuki Idei, the urbane former chief executive of Sony Group Corp , who spearheaded the Japanese conglomerate's push into content but missed the shift to MP3s that led to the iPod, died on June 2,...

www.reuters.com

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

Looking to hire a community & operations manager in Tokyo for @codechrysalis . Needs to speak English. Japanese skills a big plus. Who do you recommend I talk to, Twitter fam?

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

Whoa, one of our @codechrysalis graduates already got a job offer yesterday. Graduation was Friday. That was Sunday. Crazy!

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

9 months

You’re never too old for fart jokes.

Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

9 months

Have you heard of the Japanese concept of onara (屁)? It is used to describe when you let out the wind inside of you, oftentimes leading to inner peace and relief.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

Had a dream last night that I was running a lesser known @elonmusk company selling melon popsicles called Melon Musk and trying to convince people that I didn’t sleep with him to get the job. Suffice to say, I did not get good sleep last night.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

Thank you for the birthday wishes last week, everyone! I got to spend it eating dim sum. Hello 30’s, よろしくお願いします!

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

There are 3 women in my neighborhood who don’t pick up their dog poop. I’ve seen them watch their dogs poop and walk away numerous times. The next time, I’m going to pick up and give them the poop. Twitter fam: what should I say to them in 日本語 when I hand them the poop?

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

People really are still using a • rather than auto-formatted bullets everywhere. Same can be said for manually numbering shit. I can't tell you the number of times I've had to remove a • and the manual indenting. It's painful. WHY DO YOU DO THIS??? #$%^!!

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

The Red Hot Chili Peppers concert was 💯perfect. Audio: superb Flow: silky smooth Visuals: stunning Played almost all of their greatest hits. Never felt like they were phoning it in--high energy. Just the perfect length (2 hrs). Totally worth the 20+ years I've waited 🥺

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

6 years

!"true" ----> false but !"false" -----> false Thank you, JavaScript. I just spent way too long figuring out why this auth stuff wasn't working for me.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

I found out today that the max amount of mangoes you can purchase through furusato nosei is 120 kgs.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

11 months

I won a rockstar costume contest over the weekend by dressing up as Freddie Mercury. But the prize was a bottle of whiskey and I don’t really drink. The husband was happy though 🤘🏼

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

Twinned with @zatlyn yesterday 👯‍♀️ Thank you @Cloudflare for organizing the Women in Tech Japan event! It was a night of inspiration, laughter, and learning from so many women. We talked about everything from career ambitions to personal finances and children. 🫶

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

Tokyo weather this week: Thought it was almost summer? Haha JK. 雨motherfuckers. 🌧 ☔️

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

Golden Week traffic is horrendous. Sat in traffic for 1.5 hours trying to get to Chiba. Didn’t even make it near the Aqua Line. Ended up going to Yokohama instead, where it was also impossible but at least we weren’t stuck in a car. And this is without tourists. Bonkers!

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@yanarchy

2 years

You know that Tokyo real estate is a racket when you’re looking at SF condos and thinking “damn that’s really reasonable.”

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@yanarchy

1 year

Great snapshot of what's happening in Japan rn. The @CodeChrysalis vision is to make Japan a software leader. From our view, Japan provides goods and services for the world, which means that improving software capabilities here have global impact.

Ideas | Japan’s sleepy tech scene is ready for a comeback

After decades of slumber, the country that brought us bullet trains and Nintendo has mustered some momentum.

restofworld.org

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

1 year

Anyhow, I'm looking for an executive assistant. One of the more minor tasks will be helping me write my name in katakana.

英語力を活かしてCEOをサポートする右腕！シリコンバレー発組織の社長秘書 by Code Chrysalis Japan 株式会社

コードクリサリスは2017年、アジアにおけるソフトウェアエンジニアの認識や育成方法を変えたいという想いから設立しました。日本には非常に多...

www.wantedly.com

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

No opening ceremony tickets (hit me up if you've got connections!), but I did get 4 gymnastics women's team finals tickets!!!! 🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️🤸‍♀️🤸🏽‍♀️ Woohoo!!! That's a great competition to watch when you're Chinese American. 🇺🇸🇨🇳

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

As a kid, I remember getting scolded by my teachers for not saying "thank you" when someone complimented me. Took years to get used to that as an Asian American kid. Of course, now I'm in Japan and saying "thank you" to a compliment comes off as arrogant. You can never win🤷🏻‍♀️

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

Today was a big day for me. I read, understood and replied to a Japanese social media post in Japanese. 🔥✨🥰🎉🎂 Tomorrow I have my second serious Japanese class. My goal is to be able to give a talk in 3 months. Stay tuned.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

6 months

Thanks for having me on! Starting and running a company is already tough but doing it in Japan is like doing it on hard mode 😅 Hope you liked it!

Tim Romero

@timoth3y

6 months

How to grow your startup as a foreign founder in Japan #vc #startups #japan #javascript #coding @codechrysalis @yanarchy

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

5 years

“Quoting a dead Greek guy will make me sound smart right?” My actual motto right now is “See how many jobs I can fire myself from” but I thought that’d sound weird without context.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

6 years

Wow! I am blown away by the turn-out for our very first #BigMiniConf . There's been over 30 people in the audience at any given time. It may not seem like a lot, but that's pretty huge for us and for many tech events in Tokyo. Going into this, I was giving myself a goal of 15-20.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

11 months

Tokyo Level 271 reached: got a stroller for the dog Don’t judge, you just haven’t lived here long enough.

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Yan Fan 📍Tokyo

@yanarchy

2 years

One of our @codechrysalis graduates 🥰🥳🤩

The Yokohama Life

@theyokohamalife

2 years

June is starting off as a great month. I'm making 660,000 yen before taxes from coding, which is an amount I never thought I'd see when I was teaching English. I'm not sharing this to brag. 🙇🏾‍♀️ I just hope it motivates others who are still in the transition to not give up. 👩🏾‍🏫➡️👩🏾‍💻

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@yanarchy

1 year

To visit Patagonia once is a privilege. To be able to visit a second time is a blessing. Sorry if this is making Twitter look too much like IG.

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@yanarchy

5 years

Met a guy I used to play competitive Tetris with today. This is the first time we’ve met in person after over 10 years of knowing each other online. He’s a doctor now and married to the lovely lady on the right. Yay us! #wholesomeInternetFriends #tetrislife

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@yanarchy

2 years

Got a sun umbrella. Game changer.

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@yanarchy

6 years

I should mention, Japanese is not a requirement.

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