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…
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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…
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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…
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Does a Decentralized World have Network Effects?
Is the future a Winner-Take-All world or one open to a Million Mild Successes? It is amazing talking to people getting into the Crypto world and just starting to learn about the technologies. They often speak of speculative comparisons like which coin will win, which blockchain will do better than…
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What is Burning Man?
Burning Man is humanity’s middle finger to an uncaring universe. Burning Man takes place in the Nevada dessert. Its extremely hot and bright during the day, and can become bitterly cold and completely dark at night. It is almost completely inhospitable. The term dusty is an understatement as the…
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Seven Steps for Surviving a Startup’s Second Founding
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…
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The Modern Headcount
I can’t help but look back on my article highlighting how it feels to look for a job these days and consider what things look like from the other side of the interview table. Broken Metaphors The biggest flaw in the dating metaphor is that the candidate is not dealing…
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Six Steps for Successfully Starting at a Startup
I have been meaning to post this as a spiritual sequel to my job hunt article. Landing a job in the modern day is only the initial problem. Quickly jumping onto the moving train that is a young, vibrant startup is a whole separate ordeal. Orientation is ever-maturing, documentation is…
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Z97+XP941 Tinkering
So, I recently rebuilt my main desktop, and I had some fun on the cutting edge of technology with a Z97 motherboard and an M.2 SSD. I’ve detailed my experience below for those that perhaps google Z97 and XP941. Preparation 1. In troubleshooting, I eventually updated to the latest 0902…