• Articles - Writings

    4B or not 4B

    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…

  • Books

    Dani’s Dreamshoes

    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…

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    Disney Lied (Now with more AI)

    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

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    Miracles vs Marvels

    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…

  • Articles - Writings

    The 10 P’s of Career Perfection

    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…

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    Trading Contexts

    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…

  • Rant - Writings

    Connecting Dots

    (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…

  • Rant - Writings

    A Cautionary Tale: Life as a Startup Martyr

    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…

  • Articles - Writings

    Stories of Leadership

    “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…

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    Writing Better Poetry – Make it Personal

      Decades ago, when a young programmer poet at the University of Toledo, I had the unique honor of taking a writing course taught by Rane Arroyo. He was a fascinating person, and a great teacher. He pushed for us to evolve cliches to make them unique again, to take a strong position…