You’re incredibly talented, Taylor. Their loss, sincerely. If they didn’t hire you, know that it wasn’t the right fit and you shouldn’t be there. Your talents are needed elsewhere.
I don’t love spending time on LinkedIn but I do love that you know what you’re going to get when you go there. There’s not some fake underlaying goal like “keeping people connected.” You’re there to promote yourself and your company, find a job, or hire a person. If you’re not doing any of those things you can just not go there and you won’t miss a thing. If you need a job after 2 years, get back in there, play the game, then log off when you’re done. IMHO it’s about as honest as a large online social network can get.
I am a full-stack product engineer and architect who loves working in identity (CIAM focus), data, developer experience, and open source. I thrive in "bridge" roles where I can learn a system or technology and then bring that understanding to others. I've been able to do that in various ways from engineering and team leadership to in-person instruction to partner relations to systems architecture.
Karlicoss's HPI idea was one of my earliest inspirations here. I loved their idea of being able to somewhat "call" this database of information. The infra diagram is truly impressive!
Lots of prior art here so I knew I was not reinventing the wheel. I guess I just had to see what the challenges were first hand!
FYI, if you have control over the repo ... the URL on the sidebar, "lookerproject dot org" goes to a scammy-looking crypto thing, might want to take that down.
I love this and agree 100%. I feel like we, as a species, had to go "full internet" to understand the trade-offs of connectivity. First it was all local, then all internet, now it's feeling like the pendulum is swinging back the other way. Maybe I'm just in an echo chamber ...
I would love to hear the story of where your domain came from! I love it.
The idea behind Weave is something I would really like to adhere to. I take a lot of notes but get bored by tracking.
That said, the origin story you have on that page really got my attention. Around that year that's mentioned, I was going to 24 Hour Fitness and was pushed by a trainer to keep a food log. I did and ended up losing almost 100 pounds total. What I learned from that log stays with me today and I'm able to keep a vague log in my head when I need to.
I second both the sibling comments here but I'll add a few things:
- Having a detailed meeting and project history from work helps me during interviews, writing resumes, reminding myself of previous approaches. A lot of this comes from detailed note-taking but making connections with people I've worked with, companies I've interacted with, etc adds a lot of color and detail.
- In a similar vein, tying together people with contacts (from Google or iCloud), events, and notes helps me be a better friend, neighbor, family member in my personal life. I don't have an excellent memory so I build it out in Obsidian.
- I like being able to do simple things like figure out how many bike rides I took since I've been laid off (65 bike rides, totaling over 645 miles and 138,000 feet of elevation gain).
Does this all change my life drastically? No but I like the work, I like how present in my life it makes me, and it's fun.
