I’m Garen CheckleyHi, welcome to my most-minimal website! You can reach me at GarenCheckley@gmail.com or @garencheckley on Twitter. My Work: Emerging Markets, Tech, and CultureI work in Google's Next Billion Users initiative. I currently product manage the Files by Google app. Previously I worked on UX design, research, ux engineering, and operations teams. Some neat gender work I helped with: • Toward Gender Equity Online: Research with the Next Billion Users (Google 2019) I’ve also worked on a general framework: • A framework for technology design for emerging markets | ACM Interactions which was shared in this recorded Google i/O talk Hindi & IndiaI'm *trying* to learn Hindi -- so feel free to talk to me in Hindi. I also lived in Bangalore until COVID brought me back to the USA. Readings I like, with some notesI read random stuff, and sometimes take notes. Here are some good books & articles I find inspiration in. • Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (garenNotes) • Range by David Epstein (garenNotes) • Factfullness by Anna Rosling Ronnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling (garenNotes) • Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (garenNotes) • Portfolios of the Poor by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven (garenNotes) • White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (garenNotes) • The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt (garenNotes) • Mismatch by Kat Holmes (garenNotes) • Made to Stick by by Chip and Dan Heath (garenNotes) • Systems Thinking for Social Change by David Stroh (garenNotes) • Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt (garenNotes) • Geography of Thought by Richard Nisbett (garenNotes) • Don’t Think Like an Elephant by George Lakoff (garenNotes) • Orientalism by Edward Said (garenNotes) • Scarcity by Mullainathan and Shafir (garenNotes) • The Next Billion Users by Payal Arora (garenNotes) • The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow (garenNotes) • The Prosperity Paradox by Christensen, Ojomo, Dillon (garenNotes) • A Never Before World by Rama Bijapurkar • The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley • Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore • Measure What Matters by John Doerr • Design Driven Innovation by Roberto Verganti Articles • Planet Money 1000 by NPR (garenNotes) • The End of Average by Todd Rose (garenNotes) • Curb Cuts (and the Curb Cut Effect) by 99 Percent Invisible • On Average by 99 Percent Invisible • Incremental and Radical Innovation by Don Norman and Roberto Verganti • Why Books Don’t Work by Andy Matuschak Random• What’s up with the homeless situation in San Francisco in 10 slides |