I’m Garen CheckleyHi, welcome to my most-minimal website! You can reach me at GarenCheckley@gmail.com. My Work: Emerging Markets, Tech, and CultureI work in Google's Next Billion Users initiative. You can see some examples at: Gender-equity related • Toward Gender Equity Online: Research with the Next Billion Users (Google 2019) • Gender Equity in Technologies: Considerations for Design in the Global South (ACM 2017) General emerging markets related • A Framework for Technology Design for Emerging Markets (ACM) • Designing Great Apps for New Internet Users (Google I/O '17) I’m also working on • understanding the capabilities, contexts, and people who are just now coming online. • moving to / living in Bangalore, India. My Hobbies: Dance, Reading and struggling to learn HindiI dance a lot, mostly Hip Hop. I most enjoy dancing choreography from Allan Frias in San Francisco, you can see me embarrassing myself on my instagram. And I'm *trying* to learn Hindi -- so feel free to talk at me in Hindi. Recommended Reading, with some notesI read lots of random stuff, sometimes take notes. Here are some good ones. • The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow (garenNotes) • Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (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 End of Average by Todd Rose (garenNotes) • Planet Money 1000 by NPR (garenNotes) • A Never Before World by Rama Bijapurkar • The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley • On Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners and Theft by Simon Wardley • Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore • Measure What Matters by John Doerr • Design Driven Innovation by Roberto Verganti Articles • Curb Cuts (and the Curb Cut Effect) by 99 Percent Invisible • On Average by 99 Percent Invisible • Productivity by Sam Altman • Incremental and Radical Innovation by Don Norman and Roberto Verganti Writing(Trying to do more of this.) • Scooters, Technology, and Gender in India Random• What’s up with the homeless situation in San Francisco in 10 slides |