
Director of Engineering for Advertising Studio @marketingcloud @salesforce NYC 🇺🇸 via LDN 🇬🇧 Views are my own
Brooklyn, NY
Joined July 2013
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If someone leaves and has to immediately return because they’ve forgotten something, it’s your responsibility as a Brit to say “that was quick”. Unless at the end of the day in an office, when it’s changed to “morning!”
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A chaos meeting bot: Like chaos engineering but a bot that randomly cancels meetings, sometimes even a couple of minutes in advance, to see how resilient your org is to less meetings
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Son: daddy there’s a spider in my room
Me: he’s fine, he’s just minding his own business
Son: what business does a spider have
Me, loud enough so everyone in the house can hear: web design
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Give your dad what he really wants this father's day by not touching the thermostat, turning the light off when you leave a room, and giving a detailed account of the route you took to get to his house.
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Tips if you're a foreigner living in Britain: sometimes British people will point at magpies and say how many magpies there are. Sometimes they are very serious and sometimes they are happy about it. You just have to nod and say "oh yes" like you understand what they mean
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Husband and I reminiscing about the time I texted him on my way home:
"Can you start cooking those sausages?" Then added < 3 as a cute little heart.
He cooked 2 sausages.
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everything is shit. this is not a drill. please enjoy this video in the meantime.
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Someone on the radio said Britain will remain calm about the Coronavirus.
People phoned the police when KFC ran out of chicken
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That moment you make eye contact with another cowoker while walking down the hall
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this dog literally failed every single test thrown at him to become a service dog and i am scream laughing. but imho he’s still a very very good boy.
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New York is the future.
Silicon Valley is the future.
Boston is the future.
LA is the future.
Remote is the future.
Ignore all of this - it's mostly people validating their own choices and may not be relevant to your context.
Build the company that you want to build.
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NOT NOW, ALIENS
A radio signal is coming from a nearby galaxy, scientists announce independent.co.uk/life-style…
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I'm slowly converting my teammates to use their web cams in meetings, which surprisingly is not common practice at MSFT. It's so valuable to see everyone's faces!
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Boss: "How good are you at PowerPoint?"
Me: "I Excel at it."
Boss: "Was that a Microsoft Office pun?"
Me: “Word.
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A history lesson for people who think that history doesn't matter:
What's the big deal about railroad tracks?
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used?
Well, because that's the way




















