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jackalnom
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About jackalnom
Mostly retired from tech, which means I just do lots of little things that matter now. I teach part-time at CalPoly, raise my children, and dabble here-and-there with advising mostly AI related startups in-between.
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I appreciate the feedback. I once presented a promotion document to a room of Amazon VPs, and the first words uttered were “this is the biggest pile of shit I’ve ever read in my li…
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The biggest challenges in my career were never technical; they were human. After two decades in tech leadership at places like Amazon and Snap, I wrote an essay about the tribalism…
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