Category: Work Culture

In praise of simple tools

I write using Emacs and LaTeX. I'll grudgingly copy and paste to other formats because the organization demands it but I do better work with...

Broadly vs. Locally-useful skills

Early on, I programmed on mainframes in COBOL... I'm sure I could do it again. But I'd be tossing away some highly valuable, broadly-applicable and...

How I got hired at AWS

Being yourself matters as much as anything. And be nice to the airline staff. They can really make or break your life....

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...