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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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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.

March 23, 2021

Lessons I've Learned from 100 Virtual Coffees

It’s almost been a year since Virtual Coffee was born from my cry of desperation into the Twittersphere. From knowing that I couldn’t let myself be isolated during the time the world was calling for isolation. I knew from my...

March 13, 2021

Getting Out of My Comfort Zone

I like my comfort zone. A lot. It’s a familiar space. It’s a warm blanket, a cup of coffee, in front of a fire. It’s the crack of the bat against a baseball on a hot July day. It’s hearing...