Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban

I started the NYC Systems Coffee Club in December of 2023. It's gone pretty well! I regularly get around 20 people each month. You bring a drink if you feel like it and you hang out with people for an hour or two. There is no agenda, there is no speaker, there is no structure. The only "structure" is that when the circle of people talking to each...

I don't regularly check historic blog stats so I was delighted to notice that this site has recently passed 1M page views. And since Murat wrote about his 1M page view accomplishment at the time, I felt compelled to now too. I started regularly blogging in 2018. For some reason I decided to write a blog post every month. And while I have...

These are some of the most influential (mostly due to experience or expertise) and active folks (I actually see them attend events) in the NYC infrastructure scene (that I have a personal connection to). If you're running a dinner or are just looking to meet interesting people in NYC in software infrastructure, consider this list and feel free to...

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Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your control. Everything except for one thing: what you produce. You might know that repeatedly posting on social media that you are looking for work is ineffective. That it looks (or at least feels) worse each time you say so. But there is at least...