Delicately complex, yet understated.
In the Bay Area, everyone is obsessed with scale. Almost everyone is chasing the unicorn, the dent in the universe, the next big thing. That focus pushes conversations around massive architectures, horizontal scaling, global distribution, and venture funding that demands hockey-stick growth quarter after quarter and year after year. But…
One amazing thing about extra free-time is the ability to dabble. And dabbling plus the power of vibe coding can yield some fascinating results when it comes to building MVPs and PoCs. After my stint in the identity security space, I kept asking myself why there wasn’t a better solution…
I tend to agree with the creative premise that Everything is a Remix. Even so, I’m still a little conflicted on the use of AI-music tools. I understand the source of all this data is the blood, sweet, tears and emotions of real artists that have taken decades and lifetimes…
Burnout is the most famous brother in the career family, or more simply, the most infamous. Almost every employee touches burnout at some point in their careers. There are plenty of articles, stories, and steps to address over-worked employees. However, I think there are other phases that employees can walk…
What started as a pandemic project (https://www.gofundme.com/f/danis-dream-shoes-a-new-clubfoot-book) is finally nearing its end. It has been a blast being creative again. Its been a fascinating journey finally working on something that fed my soul in a way that no other work truly has before. From conception, to the GoFundMe, to getting…
AI helped me turn breakup lyrics from 2011 into an actual song!Its about 90% of what was in my head all those years ago. I hope you enjoy all the young angst. https://suno.com/song/bcc51848-2e04-4bd4-9993-51b77d13a447
When I was a technical seller, I used to have a joke that if our product couldn’t do it today – a Cloudflare Solutions Engineer could do it tomorrow. We had an amazing, highly technical team that could deploy some edge side code, python some APIs together, or stand up…
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…
I decided to take up mentoring as a way to give back. I realized that when I was just getting out of college and starting out in my career, that there really wasn’t a lot of feedback loops available. Within the school system, you have a pretty regimented system of…
(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…