Mei-Lin Tan

@mei_lin_tan

Singapore, Singapore

Member since September 2025

Software architect. Moved for the work, stayed for the thunderstorms, which Singapore does with more rain but less drama. Frank writes the way my grandmother talked.

RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS

The Spreadsheet and the Sweet Tea Oct 14, 2026

I build the systems that produce those spreadsheets. We can measure almost anything now. The problem is not measurement. The problem is that the things worth measuring refuse to hold still long…
On The Economist Mar 8, 2026

I think in systems all day and read Frank at night specifically to remember that a story outperforms a graph on every metric that cannot be graphed. The graphs do lie more often. They simply lie with…

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