Embracing the Geekery
Honored as always to be invited to speak again at the awesome Forward conference, this time ’round I went with the allegedly elusive and ephemeral yet very important and real topic of Geek Culture....
View ArticleRetrospection on the Retrospective
A seemingly universal axiom for processes is that there is no universal process. They can vary as much as the people who practice them. Which is great when you remember that process exists to help...
View ArticleThe future of Internet policy is CATS
I love ForwardJS and the opportunity it gives me to explore something different and significant. This year I teamed up with my Mozilla colleague Chris Riley, interviewing him on the future of Internet...
View ArticleThe Future (of Work) is Distributed
I had the pleasure of attending the NewCo Shift Forum last month in San Francisco. I’m already a huge fan of John Battelle’s thinking, so attending this was a treat. It, like his writing, aligns my...
View ArticleWomen Do Tech
Cross-posted from Mozilla This June, two of my worlds collided beautifully when my employer, Mozilla, announced its sponsorship of a prize for the most privacy-respecting Women Startup Challenge...
View ArticleUX vs. DX
I was introduced to Estelle Weyl through my colleague Ali, who suggested Estelle as a speaker for Mozilla’s speaker series. I was intrigued with Estelle’s teaching on the differences between how we as...
View ArticleData By and For the People
I’m the rare human that loves public speaking. Yes I get nervous, of course, but I also get a huge charge out of it. So this Slack from my coworker Susy had a special amount of serotonin accompanying...
View ArticleThe innovation continuum
My deep curiosity has led to what I like to call an “unlinear” career path. But at last I’ve been able to identify a common thread: helping technical people build cool stuff. And if I’ve learned...
View ArticleIt me (and us).
Anyone who knows me IRL also knows I’m a strange outlier because I don’t just like to public speak. I love it. So when the Arc.dev’s “Mastering Remote” folks asked me to join their podcast I was ALL...
View ArticleTerrifying, Exhilarating and Amazing
That’s how I described my first IGNITE talk experience on LinkedIn. I left out “tons of thought, work and practice” as IGNITE founder Brady Forrest made himself available tirelessly to help birth our...
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