Sometimes, part of me wants to retreat back to photo 1 so I can look “more professional” or “more managerial”. I’m resisting that as best as I can.
It was almost impossible to even cover it all at a high level in just 2 hours, and I hope I didn’t scare them too badly.
Categories: Life
What happens when a real-life performance comes to an end? After wearing a cheerful mask for a while, I have some lingering regret.
Do I take a position where I’d earn the most and have a lofty title, or do I take a lower-paying job where I can learn cool new things?
Every year I build a new site for the Message Systems User Conference, and this year we decided to build it into our custom drupal framework.
In May 2014, I received a cryptic description of a new website we needed to create. It didn’t even have a name yet, but SparkPost was going to be big.
Categories: Work
Every workplace has them at some point. Among my circle of friends that work in the Bay Area at various tech companies, I’ve heard each one complain about “that one guy” at their office who never does anything but never gets fired.
I burned myself out in 2013. I was not fun to be around at times. I had anxiety attacks at least once per week. This year will be different.
Categories: Work
Employee retention is hard, but it’s even harder when management makes these especially egregious mistakes.