No Energy
Energy? If Seattle has any, it's on a wavelength that I don't receive. Joy? People don't even say hello.
If people have energy or joy, they...
What the fuck are you doing there?
"Hey man," I said in my native New York tongue, "You're not gonna believe this, but I'm calling from Frankfurt..."
"What the FUCK are you doing...
No Undoing
The joy of photography for me was never in the finished product, and certainly not the moment of capturing the image on film. The joy...
Lessons from the top of a snowy hill
Things are rather treacherous out there. In my neighborhood, we have new-fallen (unplowed) snow, on top of wet (now frozen) fallen, partly-decayed, slippery leaves that...
How I became “glue”
As has often been the case in my life, I was in a category of people who were not supposed to exist. I was that...
Lightning talks, and not…
Lightning talks seem scary, but are in fact one of the best ways to introduce yourself to public speaking in general. Once you can do...
Why do I have a BA in Computer Science?
The fact that I had a BA in computer science rather than a BS seemed to be a real stickler for the hiring manager....
Job Search 101
...now please copy and paste the information about every job, every school you've ever gone to, every project you've ever done, and every technology you've...
SCaLE 16x Lightning Talk: “You’re a Failure! Now what?”
SCaLE is special and this worked well for the crowd there. There's a reason I wanted SCaLE to be the first conference where I gave...
2017 Wrapup: Top Reads
I've been curating my social media, as I do at the end of every year. By "curating" I mostly mean "deleting annoying rants" but also...