I recently read this article about What You Do Is Not (Necessarily) Who You Are, which is something I’ve been unconsciously pondering lately. See, ever since I quit my job in advertising the question “What do you do?” has been an interesting and slightly complicated question to answer (and living in NYC, you meet a [...]

I not only had the pleasure of photographing a wedding this past Friday, but a wedding at the City Hall (New York City), something I’ve always wanted to do. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting from city hall weddings, but I can now say after spending a Spring afternoon there, it’s one of the [...]

It seems like the first 26 years of my life I looked at pretty much everything the same way: as something I had to do. I still tackled the good and bad with success. And I was still fairly positive and optimistic. But I was positive and optimistic about the future, not the task at hand, which usually [...]

I watched the most recent Dove beauty video about reminding women that they’re more beautiful than they give themselves credit for. A noble marketing message, especially compared to most of them out there. Then, I read a thoughtful response** to the Dove beauty video, which basically said that we need to expand upon what we [...]

I figured it would be good for me (and maybe others) to begin chronicaling my programming journey out loud, at the very least to force myself to think through it from both a micro and macro level perspective. Therefore, this is the beginning of what I hope to be a number of posts about programming and software [...]