Collection of writings
Frameworks, systems, tools – You could say I’m a fan. I like using them, building them, breaking them down and re-building them. I like how they open up new ways of looking at data, at making comparisons and creating metaphors, and at either zooming out of a problem or zooming...
(A little inspired by the #builtforthis campaign) The Internet holds a very special place to me. I wouldn’t be who I was without it, and every day I get excited that I get to help connect people to it’s future. One of my earliest encounters with the magic series of tubes was...
When I started at Cloudflare, I had high hopes of becoming a “safe pair of hands” – a rugby metaphor used by one of my Georgetown MBA professors. He encouraged us all to become a trustworthy and reliable person to our customers and employers. To be the person that could...
“What is your management philosophy?” was the question asked, pretty innocently. I’d been a manager for over a year at this point, and oddly enough, this was the very first time someone was asking me this question. Fortunately for the asker, as well as my team members, I had a...
I’m a big fan of revisiting old ideas and iterating on them. Its always fascinating using an old concept or framework on a new problem and seeing how well it stands up. Recently, I’ve been noticing the company I’ve been working at, Cloudflare, is slowly re-inventing itself from within and...
You are now part of the long tail. Decentralization enables the expansion of ideas and products into new markets in ways that were never thought possible before with centralized systems. This unlocks an equal if not greater portion of the value that is available for those ideas and products. Lets...
I hate your poem – that spittle you call verse The pustular oozing of emotional soothing broken, gnarled and terse I hate your poem – and it’s childish rhyme scheme Your dutiful pattern so beaten and battered Like an unspeakable crime scene I hate your poem – in all its...
Imagine the future when almost every cause, company, and even people have their own currency. Think of it the same way most companies and many individuals today have their own domain names, Twitter accounts, and Facebook pages. Billions upon billions of expressions by people creating and sharing what they love...
![By Unnamed photographer for Bain News Service David Shapinsky [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://somethingsubtle.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Bowery_men_waiting_for_bread_in_bread_line_New_York_City_Bain_Collection.jpg)
The scene wasn’t pretty. Me, in my boxers, unwashed, undressed, and sweating against a humid DC summer. I had just congealed in front of the computer for an amount of time well past inordinate. Shuffling pixels around enough to trick my poor monkey mind into thinking I was accomplishing something...
A plotter, a planner, a doubting calculator. Keys stuck – pressed too hard in Ohio. Attics hold secrets and humidity. Futons creak with photos taken a year ago. Its now more act than action. more stage than show. “What do you want?” is the echoing poison, the black crystal I...
