AWS re:Invent is just such a great time of learning, connecting, and getting pumped up! It’s one of my favorite weeks. Maybe it was the nostalgia of Martin Garrix again DJ’ing the party this year — I went back and read the blog post I wrote after my first re:Invent…

I’m excited to announce the release of Jobs for Robots and Jobs for Me, an illustrated children’s book about artificial intelligence (AI) and the future of work. I wrote this book because I wanted to introduce to children and parents the notion that AI will be capable of doing much…

When you read someone else’s story you get the benefit of wisdom it took them their whole life to acquire. It’s one of the reasons I love biographies. I loved Will Smith’s new book, I couldn’t recommend it more. It was entertaining and also contained wisdom that really resonated with…

A worldview is a collection of attitudes, values, stories, and expectations. It represents our most fundamental beliefs and assumptions about the world around us. “As such, worldviews play a central and defining role in our lives. …

After I left my last company, one of my teammates shared with me a list of things she had been keeping about me in the Notes app in her phone called “Things that trigger Doug”. It must say something about me that someone would keep such a list. Anyway it…

Time marches on as I brush my teeth No task undone, no duty beneath And what output to show for my billion beats? What artifact preserved to prove my feats? A creative work, to survive time A binary mirrored for ages Unless none care to make the climb And time eventually erases all pages What if the intangible is the mint? Caring for another immortal soul The only harvest with eternal imprint

If you’re working on an application that’s been around for a while, has lots of usage and several different teams working on it, there’s a good chance it’s a dumpster fire. It happens to the best of us. Building software with real customer adoption is messy business. …

Amazon knows how to throw a party. They hired the best DJ in the world, literally — Martin Garrix. The re:Invent Party was an experience I’ll never forget. Walking in, you are handed an activity map, showing the locations of the digital lounge, beer garden, dance floor, and play zone…

In late 2014, I started keeping a gratitude journal. I have an appointment on my calendar every weekday at 12:30 pm to remind me to do this. I try to take a few minutes, usually while eating lunch, to journal things I’m grateful for that day. I do this by…