I wrote this as my farewell in Slack, and wanted to keep it, so it’s turning into a blog post! Tomorrow is my last working day at Gusto, which has meant a lot of good-bye conversations, some tears, and a good bit of advice. It’s bittersweet leaving a company full of kind people, but the […]
This was originally published on the Creative Coast’s (now Startup Savannah) blog way back in 2016. With AI, it’s feels even more relevant now. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You […]
My nonsensical House rep, Buddy Carter, filed a bill to rename Greenland to “Red, White and Blueland.” This isn’t the first time Buddy’s been ridiculous in public, embarrassing his constituents. Here’s a letter I sent to him this morning. Dear Mr. Carter, What are you doing? Greenland doesn’t belong to us. It’s not ours to […]
2024 was a lot of things, a lot of them not so great. But, there was good stuff too! Here’s a quick recap of some good things and favorites from 2024: I think that’s all for now. I’m still trying to figure out what my intentions (aka resolutions) are for 2025, but I think they’ll […]
Automattic, the owner of both Tumblr and WordPress, admitted that they’re working with AI companies to sell their users’ creations to help train AI models. This site has been on WordPress for a long time, and moved WordPress installations between hosts at least twice. This is so hard to take. So much of the web […]
I am apparently not in the musical consumption mainstream. I still love sitting down to a meal of an entire album instead of singles. I keep my playlist of favorites from the year still, but I love albums. This year, I’m trying to avoid albums by artists I’ve called out in previous years, so even […]
I don’t know if you watched Carl Sagan as a kid, but a friend shared this poem, and I was instantly transported back to watching him tell me I was made of star stuff when I was 6. We have calcium in our bones,iron in our veins,carbon in our souls,and nitrogen in our brains. 93 […]
Between writing a blog post almost every day and going back to the beginning of this blog and re-reading stuff I wrote over twenty years ago, it’s been a bloggy month over here! I only missed two days. I can live with that. I’ve blogged more this month than I have in years, and that […]
I’ve played product manager more often this year than I have in years. It’s been a fun role to get back into. It’s also been a long time since I played product manager at a larger company. The last two times were tiny startups, and well, it’s a very different experience. With tiny startup product […]
I mentioned this last week, but while I’ve been fixing formatting issues on my old blog posts, I’ve made the mistake of reading some of them. Getting a glimpse of me 20 years ago has been interesting – he was so angry, usually about work, and talked about it a lot. That guy was on […]