Category: Just Me

Last week was a bit of an affair. How does one navigate working between two groups that have differing views of reality without pissing anyone off enough? This week I got my sprint work done early. It feels like I can sleep...

A year ago yesterday was my last day at Amazon. A year ago today was my first day in Nashville in my life. A year ago and a few days we made an offer on a house. A year ago I hadn’t seen house that I’m in right now...

Office politics suck. I so much prefer just being open and honest about the work I do than worry about who I’m annoying based on who’s ideas are right and wrong.

Last week we were in a surprise planning session. Somehow I’m pretty good at running meetings about planning and making people walk away with confidence. I’m also not as much of a fan of this. But I’m good at...

Four 8×10″ (well, one is 8×11″). We’re finally getting to the point of feeling moved-in enough to start really decorating. With the help of Jackie we started the process. And thankfully I have a...

There’s one of those things you learn early on in your career as a programmer: be very careful of the estimates you give. If you ever give an estimate in passing, you can be expected to be held to that regardless of how...

Amazon has a lot of thing. Many good, many not-so-go. One thing that they’ve gotten right I think is their leadership principles. One of the things I think they got right is “disagree and commit.” There is a...

This was likely the weirdest year of my life, certainly the one with the most change. I started off working at Amazon, until the middle of January. Then, the very next day, we were on a flight to Nashville to see what house we...

That’s how long it’s been since I’ve seen Jackie for real. It’s been way too long, but in a few hours, that’ll be fixed. So happy! 😃