Bye bye, Big Tech. I don't expect to be coming back.
Last day with LinkedIn. The laptop is shutdown. The corporate IT software is expunged from my personal devices. There's just one last call to take: to say farewell to some of the whole-hearted people I had the pleasure to meet.
I don't know what's next. I do know that I have direction: it must be aligned with my values. Human connection and dignity will be paramount in my future—for myself and whoever I work with.
What began with saving as a caregiver for an impossible future later mutated into a need for security that could only be met by absurd dollar amounts. I have already spent too many years trying to fill that hole. It's not worth it. It is better to have the intrinsic security of living a life of trying to help and minimizing harm than the unlikely extrinsic security of winning the rat race.
"Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat." — Good luck on finding the actual attribution
Yes, I have privilege here. I intend to leverage it to do more good in the world. In the mean time,
