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Changing Directions
Two announcements: (1) I’m leaving the tech industry. Hopefully “for good”; if not, at least “for now”. (2) As such, the content on this blog is going to shift, perhaps dramatically. I’m going to be writing about a broader range of topics that interest me (projects around my hobby farm, wilderness trips, emergency medicine) – more writing for me, less writing for some imagined audience. (I’ll probably still end up writing about some of the same topics as I’ve been covering since 2020, just less often.) I’m writing this post mostly to give myself permission to make that change, and to give readers the opportunity to unsubscribe/unfollow if they’re not interested.
When I began, I held straightforwardly techno-utopian ideas: I believed that technology was an unalloyed force for Good, that the computer revolution would bring about a more just and equitable society. My plan is to go into emergency medicine: I’ll be training as an EMT this fall, and I’m starting to volunteer with our local county Search and Rescue team. I wrote with a fairly specific audience in mind: engineering managers and technical leads, working in software development and information security.
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