The first blog post that I ever wrote was on April 7, 2007, and was titled “Finding Our Programming Flow.” It was not very good. That year I wrote 69 posts, the last being “Miyajima and Hiroshima,” a collection of pictures from a trip I took while teaching English in Japan. The next year, 2008, I wrote 192 posts. The writing still left much to be desired. It took 200 more posts and another decade to cobble together a written voice and to make enough mistakes that my experience might become worth reading. I’m fortunate that that moment coincided with my time at Stripe, an environment where
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