My wife and I put together a list at our birthdays on goals for the year. Something like “the 35 things I want to do before I turn 35.” I missed the boat this year so I’m going to instead put together some 2024 goals. The idea here it to be pretty achievable, while stretching ourselves in some areas.

In general dads and moms in the tech world are so lucky. Our parental benefits in the aggregate are way better than most. At my last company we had 3 months of paternity. That’s more than my wife received. The problem is the problem in the majority of my life. Guilt.

My friend Erik introduced me to a game last night Sports Illustrated Baseball. It’s a table top game where you draft baseball players for a team, roll dice for both pitching and batting. Certain players can pitch or hit with better probability based on statistics from their best 5 year stretches as players.

Today marks my last day as a Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks. I leave on (hopefully) good terms with my bosses and co-workers. This marks the first time I left a job that I currently enjoyed and probably merits another post on the reasons why I left. I want to highlight a few things of my tenure at PANW.

For video game enthusiasts the author paints a really good setting. A world that is extremely possible with many activities like work, school, and play happening inside of virtual reality. That and the numerous 80s pop culture references made this book perfect for anyone born in the late 70s through the 80s.

I generally don’t write a whole lot now, but I always aspire to write more and share my thoughts. My interests are anything technology, beer, books, and running. I hope that you enjoy the posts as they come. I am attempting to get more into the open source community as the companies I have been at have been huge users of open source, but historically not great contributors.