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one of the sunflowers I was growing opened up and a little bee friend appeared 🌻
Taylor Barnett-Torabi
@taylor_atx
building products developers love & touching grass. product @netlify. ex PlanetScale, Stoplight, Keen IO & other startups. my opinions. she/her. on 🦋.
- something that some gen x and older millennials miss about this is that gen z 20 something year olds actually believe they shouldn’t have to work themselves to death to get a paycheck and good work experience. most have totally opted out of this way of thinking.
- today is Yoda’s second birthday 🎉 and last year I threw her a party (aka adults drinking at a beer garden with their dogs). since that’s not happening, can you send her dog videos instead? she’s more social than I am and misses dog friends. 🐶
- I'm giving two conference talks in the next three months and my GitHub contribution graph is the greenest it has been in years. #WITBragDay
GIF- tell me you are a male tech speaker without telling me you are a male tech speaker
- hot take: devrel as an industry has over indexed on content creation. spicy take: it is because of metrics.
- If you are a CEO and actively use Twitter but follow less than 15% women, I don't have a lot of faith in your diversity initiatives.
- I'm currently processing being laid off from on my last day of vacation in the Denver airport after a great five days in the mountains. I am still figuring out what I want to do after 2.5 years at @planetscale (and 8 years of startup DevRel), but at this point... (1/2)
