Year in Review: Looking Back at 2020 and Looking Forward at 2021
I’ve tried to do a year-end retrospective for the past several years. Sometimes I pull it off (2015, 2018) and sometimes I don’t (2016, 2019). I started to w...
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Year in Review: Part 1 – 2018 Retrospective (with some bits from 2017 too)
Pittsburgh skyline (photo by allenran917, CC BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/allenran917/6799707859/)
Last Month
The International Fountain and the Space Needle from my trip to Seattle
What I Learned from (Co-)Starting #SpeakerConfessions
tl;dr: Jump to the end to see specific trends I saw from the thousands of tweets. Or read on for the full background and statistics.
Why I Stopped Submitting Talks to Conferences This Year
I feel like mental health is an incredibly important topic to discuss, especially in tech. And most of this post will revolve around my experiences in the pa...
My Adventures of My First Year of Conference Speaking
This post was originally written on Medium.