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Life
Struggling to Balance Charity Work and Income
I co-found Protect Earth in 2020 and none of us knew how big it would become. We plant tens of thousands of trees all over the country every year, and for me that work is entirely unpaid. Being brutally honest I could do with some help.
Somebody Stole My Laptop, Then A Ragtag Crew of Strangers Got It Back
I went on a Flight Free holiday and ended up being a sleepy mess, left my bag on a train, had the laptop stolen out of it, but a bunch of strangers conspired to get it back to me against all odds.
2022 in Review: Restoring Ancient Woodlands, Vanlife, Bad Bikes, and Green Tech
It’s been another weird and wonderful year, and I wanted to reflect on that in a post.
In the last few months of 2021 I quit my full time contract with Stoplight, which had been the end of a fantastic run of making the world of API design a
Going bike nomad (and nearly dying repeatedly) fixed my burnout!
In the middle of 2018 in NYC I was going through some rough burnout. I’d been working my ass off at a corporation I’d panicked into after two startups prior had gone bankrupt. I was refactoring a huge API ecosystem which was a house of cards, built on
New Life, New Job
2017 was mostly spent putting out fires at WeWork as an API designer and
architect, helping to debug and stabilize their tightly coupled deathstar
architecture, which was constantly
crashing for pretty much no reason, with absolutely zero fault-tolerance anywhere.
A lot of 2018 was spent trying to figure out a
Escape From New York
2018 was a blast, in a bunch of unexpected and ridiculous ways. It had come to my attention sometime around June that I hated by job. Lots of new folks coming in, trying to make their mark by cocking up projects I'd spent months putting together, and trying