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Apr 2026 Be Hard on Systems, Gentle on People At the recent BAFTA awards, John Davidson, a man living with coprolalia Tourette’s, shouted -
Mar 2026 Are you Technical? Two years ago, The New York Times published an article about the key figures in -
Mar 2026 The Vibes are Off Lake Merritt is my favorite place in Oakland. It's a relatively small body -
Mar 2026 Do Less 20,000-word monologue. Twenty-three characters. One actor. Cynthia Erivo brought every role in Dracula to -
Mar 2026 The Pandemic was a Portal Six years ago, the world shut down. Americans hoarded toilet paper, eggs, and canned beans. -
Feb 2026 An Elegy to Twitter Twitter was my social media platform of choice. Where else could I engage with scholars -
Feb 2026 Moving to Ghost A Revolutionary Technologist started as a response to the prompt of what would happen if -
Apr 2025 How to Make Friends My version of Dale Carnegie’s “How to make friends and Influence People” -
Mar 2025 In Defense of Small Talk Before we can talk about deeper topics like grief, we have to hold space for the weather.
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Feb 2025 The Enshittification of Tech Jobs My first “adult” job was as a product manager for a startup that didn’t
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Feb 2025 Managing “Managing” is how we survive in a world where cruelty is the point.
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Jan 2025 Let Time Pass I arrived at the US Senate as a 27 year-old ready to make a mark.
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Jan 2025 Welcome Back The fall started with the death of a dear friend and ended with my father’
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Feb 2024 Building in Community “Everything Worthwhile Is Done With Other People” - Mariame Kaba
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Feb 2024 Customer Development as Bearing Witness “Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.” - bell hooks
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Jan 2024 Recovering from Burnout “One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others” - bell hooks
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Jan 2024 Introduction to A Revolutionary Technologist To bastardize a Nikki Giovanni quote, “I’m 33 years old, a revolutionary technologist. I love.”
