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I wanted to take another stab at an #introduction.

"We are all different people, all through our lives and that's okay. That's good. You've got to keep moving—just so long as you remember all of the people that you used to be."

I have been a:

#manager for a number of years at a couple of business: #DevOps at Heroku and owner of #SRE for Trust at a little business called LinkedIn.

#PsychologicalSafety hipster, grappling with the concept before the phrase entered the zeitgeist

#CraftPerson, striving always to produce more maintainable and readable #software

#idealist inspired early in life by #startrek, forever hoping to move the world closer to that post-scarcity utopia whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.

#ThoughtLeader, self-conscious for wanting so much to make a difference and chock full of #ImpostorSyndrome, creating and running a yearly 3-night #OpenSpaceTechnology summer camp for Ruby developers for about 10 years

shin shin toitsu #aikido practitioner, how I first learned to #meditate 33 years ago.

#teacher of #meditation, #EmotionalIntelligence, and #leadership skills, decades later.

#CatParent to 4... er.... now 5 cats. This is getting out of hand.

#husband and #caregiver to a wife with #HuntingtonsDisease for 10 years until her passing.

#husband, again, 4 years after my first wife's passing—later finding true belonging and peace for the first time in my adult life.

#human who uncomfortably yet eagerly accepts the lessons the world present to him.

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."