Four years after leaving CMU a school record holder and captain of the track team, I’m faster and stronger than ever! With a few years of self-coaching and more than a decade competing in track meets, I’ve learned a lot about what works and doesn’t for me as an athlete. This post sets down some high-level athletic principles I abide by. They apply no matter what sport you play or what goals you have. First, of course, you have to have a goal!
I’ve been in Boise all month! I’m enjoying my team here - I’ll make sure to write about my time here after I return home to California. This month, I’ve been really motivated to write - I’ve published 5 blogposts! Hopefully the habit sticks.
At work, I’m devoting about half my time to recruiting. Running several interviews a day is pretty stressful for an introvert like me. If you are or know a software engineer looking for work, help me out by checking out our job description here!
This post dives deep into a scary data loss scenario - we’ll cover identifying the data loss, investigating the root cause, and finally recovering the data.
This bug affected Readwise users who exported their highlights (both manually & automatically) to Roam on 10/27. If you are one of those users, you should contact Roam support & use my recovery code ASAP!
One piece of unattributed wisdom that’s stuck with me is “don’t take more than one technology bet”. At Ladder, our big bet is using Clojure for fullstack app development. Ladder’s used Clojure since day 1 in 2015, and we wouldn’t want it any different! In particular, Clojure’s Lisp heritage, focus on pure functions and immutable data structures, unified client-server support, and superior developer experience have helped us write higher quality code faster.
Ladder is hiring! If you’re interested, please check out our job description here!
It’s election time! I like to arguetalk about politics, and friends have told me that they don’t always know what I actually believe. I thought I’d share my ballot to put my money where my mouth is! While I’m in Boise this month, I’m registered to vote in Dublin, California.
A return to political normalcy. Over the last decade, politics has grown increasingly partisan - which may be a rational strategy.
Effective COVID response:
We should have national guidelines backed by science, but policymaking should reside with state & local authorities who can respond more effectively. This is the whole point of federalism!
We need continuing economic stimulus - of course pumping money into the economy isn’t ideal, but desperate times call for desperate measures. We should be primarily focused on short-term recovery.
