A mishmash of travel musings, martial arts madness, and career insights.
Last October, I had a whirlwind of a day: two interviews within a few hours of each other on a warm, breezy Monday in San Francisco. What made these interviews unique? While they were both online, one was a completely text-based chat on Slack with a hiring manager from Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com,…
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This Sunday, my friend Josh and I went to the University of California in Santa Cruz. UC is a unique campus nestled in rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Monterey Bay. Students in the school often wander throughout the grounds–going into caves, building tree forts, and doing what we did today: tree climbing.…
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San Francisco’s public transportation isn’t perfect. The buses and trains are inconsistent and late. You get all sorts of crazies on board. But once in a while, you run into something extraordinary. I was reading on the bus one night, and a dude with dreadlocks asked me how my novel was. I replied to…
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The World is My Book 