Best of Hey Georgie

This is a list of some of the most popular, interesting, fascinating, well-written, inspiring, and thought-provoking blog posts I’ve written. There are posts that may not have received a lot of readership, but are close to my heart or have great significance to my life. I created this list so I could direct new readers to some of my best work and to get a better idea of who I am. The quality and calibre of my writing has improved over time, so naturally, posts that have been here may be removed over the course of time.

Last updated 30 June 2026.

Top 10 ❤️‍🔥

  1. Being a Chinese-Indonesian Australian: My story of internalised racism
  2. 2025: The year of trauma
  3. The “golden era” of blogging
  4. Postcards from Phoenix: Tale of a (finally successful) mission
  5. ADHD, meet Georgie. Georgie, meet ADHD.
  6. Dear XOXO
  7. My experience studying a Masters degree full-time, while working full-time
  8. What I’ve learned about web communities from public speaking
  9. After a ten year break, I’m reading again
  10. Names are complex: Displaying initials for an avatar component in a design system
A woman with fair skin and long dark hair braided loosely in a side braid, standing in the middle of a quiet street. She is wearing a light blue blazer and blue jeans with white sneakers. She is looking over her shoulder and above her there is a canopy of jacaranda trees
Me in Sydney, 2020.

The rest

In alphabetical order. Some of these posts are quite old and may reference situations that are no longer current. Think of them as documenting a moment in time.