VaedaStrike
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Comment · 1 year ago
This myth that Amazon is customer obsessed like what part of Amazon are you looking at?
Comment · 4 years ago
Excellent points and great insights. Thanks for taking the time to share!
Comment · 5 years ago
The relationship with a potential employer and a romantic interest have the same dynamics between creepy vs confident/hustling. We all have seen examples of both, but if any have tried to project confidence or to hustle to any significant and meaningful degree you run a non-trivial risk of appearing to cross lines / be creepy.
Often it isn’t one or the other. Steve Jobs was both a heartless ass at times while also being a brilliant hustler.
Comment · 6 years ago
LinkedIn web app and firefox mobile.
Comment · 6 years ago
My Sister is a member of his congregation in Boston, on a day when she was having a difficult time managing the difficulty of being a young mother of 5 while in a chapel during worship services (this happened within the last year or two) in the process of things there was a spill of things of hers into the aisle way. She shot down to the ground to try and gather up all the things now cluttering the aisle way. Of all the members of the congregation who could have stepped over to lean down and help recover the diaspora it was “Brother Christensen” who came over and, despite being in a body ravaged by age and all he’d been through, using support for mere walking. There he was putting in the genuine walk, leaning over repeatedly to help gather things for my likely frazzled and overwhelmed sister.
My sister was vaguely aware that he’d achieved some notoriety. When I went on to speak of the world wide reverberations of his work, it seemed to pale for me to the history my sister had related to me just prior of what this kind, old ‘disabled’ man had done for my sister. An act which virtually anyone else in his position would be excused for presuming that someone else could handle this ‘little’ need.
Thanks Bro Christensen for producing the rebar, the greatly undervalued acts that keep our society actually functional and bearable.
Comment · 8 years ago
While prices have long been rising here in Utah, they are still a pitance relative to SV/SF you could set up near the University of Utah (or BYU if you’re okay with the oft times awkward happy valley vibe) for what should be very reasonable for a Software Engineer salary.
There’s a solid tech nexus forming whose geographic center is becoming a town between Salt Lake City and Provo called Lehi. Tons of co-working spaces. It’s one of only 4 states in the nation where computer software developer is the most common job https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-... it, at the very least, has a sizeable workforce that depend on their ability to sling code to make a living.
I’ve heard a lot of heresay, from people who’d know, about how much Northern Utah is resembling the appearance of SV from some decades back during its ascent.
I intend to transform how we share and exchange data as well as finding a way to give everyone access to what's been, up to now, the domain of hackers and large corporations, namely the capacity to independently scale their efforts throughout the world, to traffic their data and knowledge across the world without respect for what their specific specialty is nor with any restrictions connected to whatever domains they, or their data, occupy.
I love relational theory, the Cognitect stack and am a self taught hacker and graphic designer. Also a happy father and husband.
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