Wolf of Williamsburg / The endeavors
Reality Check Network
The fifteen-person hosting company / TBD
The hosting years. A fifteen-person hosting company, racks of servers, and all the client mail that comes with them.
The stories below cover most of what I remember.
From the archive
- Seven Months of StartupsI left Peek, spent seven months running a hosting company, and landed at Shutterstock before the year was over.
- Goodbye by EmailMy last day at Reality Check passed inside a chaotic weekend, so the proper goodbye came later.
- I Officially AcceptedThe second conversation with Shutterstock ended with a Director of Systems Operations job.
- Miserable WeekA new Amsterdam data center, school, and a side company all landed in the same seven days.
- As If I Didn't Have EnoughAnother leadership change landed at Reality Check while I was already deciding whether to leave.
- One More ShotSeven months after turning down one Shutterstock job, I asked the company to take another look at me.
- New BeginningsReality Check did not fill the whole bucket, so I asked an old Beatport executive to help build something new.
- CTO, Written DownReality Check put my CTO responsibilities into a simple roles document, and I immediately used it to help somebody else.
- Can Work Count as Credits?I went back to Baker College and asked whether years as an IT director and CTO could help finish the degree I had left open.
- One of You Needs to Take ItI made the same Reality Check offer to two former Beatport teammates and tried to get one to bring the other.
- Please Take This JobReality Check needed an infrastructure engineer. I wanted somebody I trusted and was already tired of interviewing.
- Sick of Gluster ConfigsThe storage proof of concept worked. I wanted four nodes, real performance data, and then a break from staring at it.
3 more in the archive.