Finding some old stuff
In 2016 a bunch of us gathered together with folks from IXDA SF to reminisce and record our collective history from the beginnings of the dot com boom and bust ...
Category: Career
Re-finding Your Individual Contributor Self
The Shift Back from Management Moving from management back into the role of an individual contributor—especially if you go out as a freelancer or consultant—can...
Over on Medium
I wrote a piece pondering some questions coming out of the Ellen Pao / Kleiner Perkins trial. I sat on the jury for five weeks and although I was an alternate a...
Falling off the radar here but not there
I have been super busy lately with client work, presentations and conferences and prepping for an upcoming portfolio review related to my photography work. I ha...
New design, new patterns
The Yahoo! Pattern library has launched a new design – to match the revamped design of the Yahoo! Developer Network. This was a project that originally st...
Upcoming speaking events
The conference season is coming up and I will be speaking and teaching a host of workshops in the coming months. Should be an interesting spring talking about p...
thoughts on transitions
i was having a phone conversation today with a potential client and professional colleague when she asked me if i had thought about submitting a proposal to the...
a few observations
I just finished the second pair of weeks as part of the firm Tangible. Things have really started to pick up. In the last two weeks, I have put together 4 proje...
The first two weeks
I have just finished my first two weeks with Tangible ux. I am acclimating to working from home and have to make the extra effort to stay in touch with friends ...
On Vacation
So technically I am on vacation until the 1st of August, when the new company officially begins. Of course, this first day was spent being very busy finishing u...
in which all is revealed about her new adventure
So folks are asking about what the next adventure is and where I am going. I can finally share… On August 1st, the partners of BranchLogic – Bruce C...
relief from the double edge of hiring
Hiring and building teams is something I think I do fairly well. I have hired a fair number of people over the last ten years. Thinking about the processes I ha...
initial thoughts on leaving Yahoo!
so yesterday I told my team that I am leaving Yahoo! after 4 1/4 years. i am torn about this move – super excited about the next step in my life and caree...
Making Room for the next generation
I recently went through the process of interviewing candidates for a position on my team. We decided this time though, that we had enough senior and mid-level p...
Mind Your Reputation
I am pleased to announce that we recently released a set of 9 Reputation Patterns over on the Yahoo! Pattern Library. Written primarily by Bryce Glass, these pa...