Accidentally in Code

Engineering an Interesting Life

6 Things I Look For When Considering Projects and Teams

February 26, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

Women in senior roles (I am ignoring the presence of new grad women as a metric – it’s a meaningless measure of diversity). A manager with some kind of work life balance. Does he (sadly it’s always a he) talk about his kids? Make an effort to moderate his travel for the sake of his […]

Decisions

December 24, 2009.Reading time 2 minutes.

I have a confession about almost every big decision I’ve made. Going to Edinburgh, working in the US the first time, training in China, coming to Canada. Someone else suggested it to me. The other big things have mostly been opportunities, that I’ve said yes to. Each one of these has taken me outside of […]