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I spent ten years teaching college English. Now I teach developers, search engines, and AI systems to understand each other.

Writing about developer experience, AI tooling, and the communities that make tech worth working in.

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Currently Developer Experience Lead, AI Platform at Paper Compute
Writing about what AI agent sessions actually cost
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July 25, 2021

Two Companies, Two DevRel Positions, Two Different Interview Processes

In the last post, I talked about how I ended up interviewing for two positions without looking for a job. And what might seem like a process that should be fairly consistent since both were DevRel positions, there were still...

July 20, 2021

How I accidentally interviewed for two jobs

Part I: Interview Them First

June 28, 2021

Notes from Twitter Spaces on Community and Remote Work

My notes from the last two weeks of Twitter spaces I hosted. These are not all my ideas, and I might not agree with them all. But, I wanted to share what we talked about.

June 7, 2021

Code + Community: the highlight reel

Last week, we wrapped up our second season of the Virtual Coffee (VC) Podcast with our Code and Community episode. As VC’s been growing over the last year, I’ve been working on the Virtual Coffee model for communities, and Dan...

April 26, 2021

I did something that scared me: I took a week off

A friend recently asked me if I am a results or a process person. I told her that I’m a momentum person. I like to move. I don’t like breaks. But when we hit the one year mark of Virtual...

April 20, 2021

Coding is Pattern-Matching: a growth-mindset perspective

A couple of years ago I was talking to a woman who was doing simultaneous Masters degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and running a brain study on chronic depression. When we were talking about her multiple degrees and her musical...

April 3, 2021

One Year of Community: The Three Ls of an Accidental Community Creator

It started with a tweet.