Description: Or, how to describe yourself using only lists of bullet points.
Mon Sep 5 04:15:02 PDT 2016 Projects I've been attempting National Novel Writing Month every year since 2002. The goal is to write 50000 words of fiction during the calendar month of November. I failed in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, and 2012, and won in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Every year (except for 2016, where I took a break and wrote pastiche in someone else's universe) I work on the same "novel," writing additional chapters which I will la
The most recent installment was a lifetime ago. Since then, democracy has gone into a recession, plague ravages the land, and a long-dormant moral impulse awoke inside me and gradually became less and less comfortable being part of the machine that is Google. I left in February 2021, and started a job at Robinhood, the (in my mind, unfairly) controversial brokerage and financial services app, working to build a world-class SRE organization. I believe deeply in SRE, in a way that feels almost like a social j
As I write this, I am on vacation in Bruges, having taken the train over for a long weekend from where I've been working, in London, building the company's engineering presence in Europe. I'm in London on a six-month extended business trip.