Send to Kindle I set out to do my startup at the end of January. I had worked in startups the last 6+ years so you think I would know what it takes. But transitioning from a work-for-someone-else job to a 2-person startup has been a difficult one. I used to spend most of [...]
Send to Kindle Happy Valentines Day! First a quick personal update, and then on to the good stuff I have been absent the last few weeks – quiet on twitter, behind on email, and missing on my blog. I am working furiously to launch an MVP of my first leadership tool (and I [...]
Send to Kindle I have some news: As of last week, I am officially an entrepreneur! I had planned to leave Decide this year, even before I had interviewed I planned to start my company in 2013 (and for those who with concerns, don’t worry, I told everyone involved up front about my plans). And while [...]
Send to Kindle Thanksgiving is this week, and so I desperately wanted to come up with a Thanksgiving themed post. I considered doing the cliché “things I am thankful for” post, and I even tried mind mapping Thanksgiving ideas. However, nothing really came to me. Then I pondered the question, what do I really like [...]
Send to Kindle Not long ago I had a problem with lying. Several years ago I made lots of changes and one of those was I stopped lying – cold turkey. An around that time my sister and I discussed this topic because she, too, had the same problem. You see, growing up in our household [...]
Send to Kindle For those of you who know we well, or knew me during the years of 2000-2005 probably know that I have lost of a lot of weight. Since my heaviest in 2002/3 I have continuously been losing weight – which is a delta of 74 pounds from my current weight to my [...]
Send to Kindle Hey everyone, If you have been reading my blog then you may remember me posting about this book chapter I worked on over the summer. Earlier this year I posted a part of the chapter that didn’t the final cut (distributed systems fault tolerance and monitoring). Well, the book finally came out! [...]
Send to Kindle Normally I don’t do this many personal posts in a row, but this week I was inspired by Jesse’s post, so I thought I would join in writing my own letter to my former myself a decade or so in the past. —— Dear Katherine (since you don’t call yourself Kate yet), [...]
Send to Kindle I consider myself lucky. I have a loving family, a good job, and a nice home. Working in technology we are so fortunate because we get paid very well to solve interesting problems. For most of us we enjoy a large part of our jobs, we use our minds (no hard physical [...]
Send to Kindle Well tomorrow is my birthday. For many people their birthday is a cause for celebration – a day to feel special. I don’t know if it is because I went through a large part of teens and 20s without parties, and my 21st birthday was so momentous that no one even said [...]