From backstage to onstage…
This week I had the huge honor – thanks in large part to Dana – to share the amazing story of the Mozilla community at TEDxSanLuisObispo. The weekend was special for many reasons: in addition to the...
View ArticleIt’s the Community, Not the Code
That was a huge “aha” of mine when I interviewed at Mozilla over a year ago. Since then, I’ve enjoyed a year of immersion into one of the most fascinating, cool communities ever. Today I had a chance...
View ArticleSilicon Everywhere
Today I had the very distinct privilege to share about some lessons learned from the region so lovingly known as Silicon Valley. It was part of the first “Silicon Valley Comes to the Baltics” —...
View ArticleBeing Open about Being Open
Last year WebFWD (the accelerator program I run for Mozilla) had the privilege of hosting a few events with Black Founders, a fantastic organization doing great things for tech entrepreneurs. At one of...
View ArticleYa Say You Wanna What?
The gracious organizers at the increasingly-popular and relevant HTML5DevConference invited me back this year after I finagled my way into a hands-on dev event last year. Luckily the markets have...
View ArticleThe Geek Renaissance, Tempered
Dave McClure has called the current startup environment a “Geek Renaissance” for good reason: capital, resources and expertise on starting a tech company abound, reducing much friction in the product...
View ArticleKeep It Weird. For Real.
I am back from South by Southwest. Interactive, that is. Most people would say this year’s interactive festival is a relative yawner, with no real huge splashy launches so characteristic of years past....
View ArticleCongruence
This week I had the opportunity to help out the inimitable Dave Nugent and his conspirators Brian and Taylor with their first-ever ForwardJS conference. It felt great because: (1) It aligns perfectly...
View ArticleD2D Is Coming Out
Over the past year I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Adam Benayoun and the Binpress team. Their mission to clarify the meaning and value of “free and open source” resonates well with what we...
View ArticleWhat is all the fuss?
It’s hard not to love Gilda Radner or SNL. And I’ll go one step further: for me, it’s impossible not to love Emily Litella. She never understood why people made such a fuss over things. In 2015, I...
View ArticleStill Weird, Still Awesome Austin
2015 marked my 4th year not-in-a-row at South by Southwest. My observations from last year still largely hold true, though this year some of the crowds seem to have staved off (Mykel, my Austinite...
View ArticleEmbracing 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...
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