Confusion is information.
When several students get stuck in the same place, I don’t assume they’re the problem. I look at what I can change.
Teaching Where did I lose them? → Product Where are users getting stuck?
Vol. 02 Teaching
Teaching
Teaching changed the way I understand people.
Teaching has been part of my life for years, and it’s shaped the way I think more than I expected. Spending so much time explaining ideas, watching where people get stuck, and trying a different approach when something doesn’t click has made me pay close attention to how people experience things. That perspective follows me everywhere, including into product.
Start where they are.
People arrive with different context, confidence, and experience. Before deciding what comes next, I want to understand what they already know.
Teaching Know the learner → Product Know the user
Sequence changes everything.
The same idea can feel obvious or impossible depending on when someone encounters it. Good teaching is often about choosing the right next step.
Teaching Design the lesson → Product Design the journey
Confidence matters.
I’ve watched students understand more once they feel comfortable trying, failing, and asking questions. The experience around the task matters too.
Teaching Make it safe to try → Product Make it easy to explore
Where I’ve taught
From Scratch to product management
UC Berkeley SCET
Product Management Course Coordinator 2026–Present
Help develop and teach an interdisciplinary product management course for about 60 Berkeley students across 8+ majors, with a focus on making the course approachable to students from technical and non-technical backgrounds.
Berkeley ANova
Computer Science Mentor Berkeley, CA
Develop and teach computer science lessons for middle and high school students from under-resourced Bay Area schools.
Software Programming Instructor
Independent Mérida, México
Designed a Scratch curriculum for 4th–5th graders and wrote a beginner Python book to make programming less intimidating for kids encountering it for the first time.
Froggin English for Kids
English Teacher Mérida, México
Taught English to students ages 6–12 across different proficiency levels, from early reading and writing to conversation.
The more I teach, the more I realize how much there is to learn from the way other people think.