That Time I Got Suspended from CollegeDuring my sophomore year of school at the University of Southern California (USC), I was suspended for a semester for “computer hacking.”…Feb 22, 2020A response icon1Feb 22, 2020A response icon1
The Five Stages of EverythingSimilar to The Five Stages of Grief , starting a new job is a rollercoaster ride of emotions. I originally started writing this blog post…Jan 15, 2020Jan 15, 2020
The Continuously Evolving Nature of SREAn alternative title for this post might have been, “Why can’t anyone agree on a singular definition for Site Reliability Engineering…Jan 14, 2020A response icon1Jan 14, 2020A response icon1
“The Freshman from Palmdale has got No Soul!!!”It hurts to even write this story, but it is one of those things I never want to forget.Nov 26, 2019Nov 26, 2019
Hey British Airways, Here’s Five Whys It Was Not The IT Person’s Fault!Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the massive British Airway’s Outage that took down their backend…Jun 4, 2017A response icon1Jun 4, 2017A response icon1
Why does Uber have surge pricing?Uber is a Marketplace that matches riders and drivers. In the same way that Ebay lets a seller offer an item, and multiple buyers bid on…Feb 4, 2017Feb 4, 2017
I know that Google and Lee Sedol were planning to disconnect me.In the 1968 movie by Stanley Kubrick titled 2001, there is an Artificially Intelligent Computer by the name of HAL who pilots a spaceship…Mar 12, 2016Mar 12, 2016
What’s the job you want after this one?If you’ve never been asked this question in an interview or answered it with your current manager then I feel sorry for you. I’m fond of…Feb 17, 2016Feb 17, 2016
You Can’t Do Anything You Want“You can do anything you want in life!” That line is such bullshit. Especially when it comes to your career and especially if that career…Jan 25, 2016A response icon1Jan 25, 2016A response icon1
Facebook is the reason I no longer have anyone’s email address!Walled Gardens on the Internet are dangerous. Anyone that used the Internet before 2000 with the likes of AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy can…Jan 8, 2016Jan 8, 2016
