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In The News

Thousand Oaks shooting

This week had already been a trying one, with a major midterm election on Tuesday and lots of our local races still too close to call. I didn’t work too much on the election on Election Day, but I did go in early on Wednesday and pretty much worked on nothing else but election follow-up. I went home that day, rather exhausted but still kind of overwrought from working on the election, and went to bed at around 10:30 p.m. — late for waking up for a 4 a.m. shift, I know, but that’s what happens when you have kids.

The first middle-of-the-night calls started around 1:23 a.m. You know when was the last time I got middle-of-the-night calls and voicemails? Immediately after the Las Vegas shooting.

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I will never stop learning. I won’t just work on things that are assigned to me. I know there’s no such thing as a status quo. I will build our business sustainably through passionate and loyal customers. I will never pass up an opportunity to help out a colleague, and I’ll remember the days before I knew everything. I am more motivated by impact than money, and I know that Open Source is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation. I will communicate as much as possible, because it’s the oxygen of a distributed company. I am in a marathon, not a sprint, and no matter how far away the goal is, the only way to get there is by putting one foot in front of another every day. Given time, there is no problem that’s insurmountable.

I was reading Dan Gillmor but the creed comes from Matt Mullenweg.

Gabby Douglas makes me proud

Aside from watching the Opening Ceremonies live, I haven’t been watching the Olympics. When I’m at home, the TV is either turned to baseball (thanks Trinity) or Disney Channel, and beyond that, I’m usually too tired to seek anything new out. So, I’ve mostly been keeping up with Olympics news that’s gone viral — which includes a Yahoo news item about how Gabby Douglas hair has come under fire.

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