employment

A new home at A Thinking Ape

I've joined A Thinking Ape as an Engineering lead. I'm very excited about this, as it's exactly the kind of company I've been looking for: hard problems and smart people in a values-driven organization. I'm specifically stoked about being in an organization that values

employment

Leaning into blockchain

The abrupt end of Scenarion has challenged me to determine how I want to spend my time. The last five years has been constant work, with Powershifter, Telus, freelance programming, and Scenarion. During that time I was jumping from project to project, with rarely

employment

Startups can end abruptly

Scenarion is no more. It came abruptly, a couple of days before we were to launch our marketing campaign. Something about securing investor funding. It was completely unexpected, and a major dissapointment to us who had been working very hard for months on our

employment

Phone screen

Michael Lopp's favourite part of the phone screen is taking questions. The interviewee gets to show off their research skills and ask probing, insightful questions, and Michael gets to answer them. I'm not a fan of lazy questions. I can think of no better

health

Pivot

Invisible Hands has been a major focus of mine for the last six months, if not the last six years. But for the first time since 2010, Stephen and I are living in the same city, giving us the very welcome opportunity to work