Category: Misc Musings
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A Cat Saved My Life Once
18 years ago, my old cat Loki literally saved my life by waking me up before the house started on fire. Here is a snippet from what I wrote at the time: I was up in bed snoring away about 45 minutes ago and my cat woke me up. He was digging at my bedroom door and howling. I woke and yelled at him that he better have a damn good… … read the full article
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On Corporate Personas
This is a bit of a podcast-but-written light rant, but I wanted to try something different with my writing. Or rather go back to my own less structured style for this one. 🎧 Prefer listening? Here’s a dictated version. Not the original dictated version as it is even longer and more ranty and may or may not have included curse words. Note that it does not perfectly match the text. Corporate… … read the full article
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Some Momentum
It has been a full couple of weeks. Interviews, client work, and making progress on a couple of personal projects have kept me nicely occupied. Not in an overwhelming way, just enough that I can feel some real momentum again. Compared to the slower stretch toward the end of last year, this pace feels genuinely good. I am also noticing how much I have missed being in conversations. Talking things through,… … read the full article
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Speaking at Women in Tech Global Conference 2026
I wanted to share some news. I will be speaking at the Women in Tech Global Conference 2026 this May. My session is called The Messy Middle: Career Longevity in Tech. When I talk about the “messy middle,” I am not talking about age or being at the end of a career. I am talking about the phase many long tech careers reach where the path stops being linear, expectations shift,… … read the full article
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The Creation of the World Wide Web
Happy birthday to the World Wide Web! On March 12, 1989, the Web was conceived by the one and only Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist and computing legend. But the birth of the Web wasn’t just a mere technological advancement – it was the beginning of a new era of information access, communication, business, entertainment, and activism. Brief Biography of Tim Berners-Lee Before we delve deeper into the impact of… … read the full article