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About Me

You are reading the mostly coherent ramblings of a writer and software nerd based in San Francisco of the California Republic.  Currently, I work for the Tracker team at Pivotal Labs.  My professional blog for Pivotal Labs is here.

I started blogging as a way to sort out my learning on the job in software testing and the academic work I was doing for my Masters in Software Engineering.  It has settled into a blog which echoes my journey through a crazy high-tech career and my obsession with writing.  You can read more about my blogging habits here.

 

The posts you will find here reflect aspects of my professional credo:

 

  • Writing will always be the thing I do first and best
  • At the crossroads of collaboration and craft stands an open well of deep creativity.  Great software emerges from those who gulp from and bathe themselves in the water of this well
  • Software thrives with transparency and reciprocity between its makers, its users and its surrounding community
  • Workplace safety is non-negotiable and includes emotional safety in the milieu of conferences, email lists, twitter and meet-ups.  If someone (a boss, peer, industry expert) says or does something that compromises my safety, I have the right to walk out whether it’s a conference presentation, workplace brown bag or one-on-one meeting
  • An open web, open information, open data and open source software are all critical for social justice on a global scale
  • Humans and their expressions are too complex to ever be completely definable by technology or labels.
  • Software is better when it is made by a team that functions not as a well-oiled machine but as a team of humans who respect each other and know how to collaborate
  • Focusing on the values in the Agile Manifesto means that software is built with heart and balance no matter what the process is called.
  • If safety and humility are a primary focus, confidence and risk-taking flow.