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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
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February 24, 2025

Google’s EEAT vs. Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle: SEO Is Just Ancient Rhetoric in Disguise

Recently, I learned about Google’s EEAT (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) framework. That’s the one that determines whether your content is worthy of showing up on search results or if it gets yeeted into the void of page two or beyond....

November 8, 2024

Five Lessons for Five Years in Tech

July marked my fifth year in tech.That’s half a decade in a career I never imagined myself in. I came into tech via trauma, so it’s always hard to answer the question about where I want to go next. But...

May 14, 2024

Being a Hybrid Friend is Hard

Before coming into tech, I saw my friends weekly. I’ve never had a lot of friends, but I’ve had friends. You know, the kind that know you and understand you and you can break into random songs in front of...

November 26, 2023

The Evolving Landscape of DevRel: Trends and Predictions for 2023

A couple of weeks ago, I put out this tweet.

November 15, 2023

Hiring, Firing, and Becoming Indispensable

At the beginning of COVID, I lost my job. It was hard, but I navigated through it with what seemed like most people around me and then landed another job. At the beginning of 2023, I was laid off. The...

March 21, 2023

Interview Questions to Assess Company Culture Fit

Culture is hard to define. And we all like a different type of culture. We grow, learn, communicate in different ways; there’s not one culture that benefits everyone. Having diverse cultures is a beautiful part of the industry because there’s...

March 9, 2023

A Nontraditional Education in the Tech Industry

In April 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, I started having virtual coffees. It started as once-a-week sessions where we talked about the pandemic and our lives, and being laid off, and homebirths, and having kids at home, and...