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New Year, New Role

Yesterday was my last day at the job I’ve been in for most of 2015. Later this month I’ll be joining the digital team at Condé Nast! I’ve been interested in media, publishing, and journalism since I was a kid, growing up in the office of a

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What's Next

Friday was my last day at Bitly. Starting now, I am concentrating on TodaysMeet. TodaysMeet has been a side project of mine for a long time, and lived for several years without much input or attention from me. Recently, though, it’s been growing, and I have been spending more

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Onward.ly!

Later this month I will be joining the Bitly team! I am extremely excited to be joining such an amazing group working on a product that touches so much of the web, one that I’ve used for years. I’ll be working on the Bitly API, and helping other

Life

A New Chapter

Nearly four years ago, I moved West to join Mozilla. About a year later, I moved East to come home to New York. I consider those two of the best changes I’ve ever made. Now Spring is here again and it’s time for another change. Last week, I

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Things I Love about Fall

By shockingly popular demand, a big, unorganized list of things I love about fall. Fall is just over a week away, and the weather feels like it’s starting it’s slow turn around the corner. Today was a gray, rainy, dreary day but it got me excited for the

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Moving to New York

It’s summer, and you know what that means: big life change blog post! This one isn’t quite as big. I love the work I’m doing at Mozilla and not looking to make a change there. But I am moving across the country. Again. In July, a week

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In the Shadows of Media Giants

The McCain campaign will probably go down in history as one of the worst-run campaigns in American history. Not because of a few horrible gaffs (“helped create” the BlackBerry? intended to insult the <span class="gotcha" title=""President" Zapatero doesn't exist, for the record.

2.0

Identity 2.0 - A Primer

Google your name. Right now. I’ll wait. Put your name here: Good. What came up? Look at the first page of results and ask yourself these questions about each one: Is it really me? Did I create this? Do I control this? You need to be able to say

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The Hunt

So many apartments around here, and the whole local method of finding apartments, are based on these out-of-the-city, suburb-light developments. I don’t want to live there. I somehow managed to get the East Coast sense of what apartment living is. I like buildings without names, unique, or at least

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To Read - A List

Norman Mailer died today. It doesn’t matter much to me. I didn’t know him. I’d never read any of his books. I rarely read any of his articles or columns, and then only when we crossed paths on the internet. Norman Mailer But I have not been

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Hoodies

So I did end up going to Urban Outfitters. I was about to blow almost $100 on a jacket and hoodie, but then the jacket rang up for 90% off. That’s right. 90%. I don’t think she typed in enough 9s, because it was sure supposed to be

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Sushi

I love Sushi. Even more than that, I love being the type of person who eats sushi. One of the few local restaurants around here, completely independent, is a sushi place down the street called Q Sushi. It’s run by a family, I think they’re Korean but I’

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Happy Birthday

To me! It’s my 21st birthday, and rather than be at a bar at midnight, I strapped on my boots and walked out to the fields behind my house. That’s right, the first thing I did on my birthday was kick a soccer ball. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote