Back in mid-August, I got the opportunity to speak at Self.Conference for my third year in a row. While a few things had changed this year, it still remains probably my favorite conference I’ve ever been to. What I’ve Loved About It On their website, they say “Self.conference is a…

I’m excited to say that after about 8 months of job hunting, I finally accepted a new software engineering job! Before I tell you about it, I really want to talk about the jobs I didn’t get and the interview processes I went through. Soooooo Many Interviews…. I started slowly hunting for jobs…

From my last couple of jobs, I realized I wasn’t a very good fit for them or they weren’t a great fit for me. It made me start to wonder how to find a job that I knew we’d be more of a match for each other. For this latest…

tl;dr: Jump to the end to see specific trends I saw from the thousands of tweets. Or read on for the full background and statistics. The Hashtag It started as a simple enough conversation. On Wednesday morning, I was talking to Nate Taylor about some thoughts and feelings I had related to…

I feel like mental health is an incredibly important topic to discuss, especially in tech. And most of this post will revolve around my experiences in the past year. In 2015, I gave my first conference talk. And I gave it many times. It was a wild and zany ride…

People have asked me a lot on how I can keep up with Twitter. And sometimes they’ve seen this screen and told me “Whoa! What is that mess?” That, my friends, is how I organize Twitter so it makes logical sense to me, and is how I manage to keep…

When I was asked if I would write a blog post about productivity, I thought “Sure! It can’t be that hard.” But the only thing that just kept coming to mind over the past few days was “I just feel soooo unproductive lately!” My list of things I needed to…

In Part 1 of my Year in Review post, I wrote about what happened in the past year in my life, both good things that happened as well as some things that could be improved. …

2016 has been a weird year for many people I know and many I don’t. My Twitter timeline is guaranteed at least a few “this year sucks” posts every time I look at it. (Heck, I’ve retweeted several of the more amusing ones.) But a “year” is just a time…