I say I’ll write. I never do.
Okay, I sometimes do.
I find the whole US election circus fascinating. Utterly baffling, but fascinating. Terms like 'Caucuses', or 'Super PAC', or 'electoral college' would be things I'd hear but not really understand. Having now spent a few years here, I'm starting to get the hang of things, so I thought I'd write some things down.
So, now that we've covered our Civics 101, looking at Congress, the President, voting and the Electoral College, let's start looking at what's actually going to happen this year.
I find the whole US election circus fascinating. Utterly baffling, but fascinating. Terms like 'Caucuses', or 'Super PAC', or 'electoral college' would be things I'd hear but not really understand. Having now spent a few years here, I'm starting to get the hang of things, so I thought I'd write some things down.
Immigration is a son of a bitch
Writers Block: New Adventures in Blogging
I posted a throwaway remark the other day suggesting America ban all guns. A wholly simplistic and unrealistic proposal today, and probably, for the foreseeable future.
I come from a society where this is the norm, and tragedies like those last week are consequently exceptionally rare, so it does not feel in the remotest bit controversial for me to feel that way. It’s what I’d personally like to happen, but I do recognise the challenges involved in even getting close to the possibility of it happening in the US are very difficult, complex and fraught.
Friends. I have some pretty big life-news to share. Rather than metering it out in 140 character bite-sized Tweets, short on context and detail, I’m writing it up long-form. Strap in.
TL;DR - We’re moving to Seattle. I’m excited and terrified.
Come December, I’ll have been working for Yammer for five years. When I was hired back in 2011, the company were still an upstart startup, pre-Microsoft acquisition, and they had lofty ideas about how they’d build out our engineering presence in Europe. The first step was finding someone game enough to take on an indeterminate, jack-of-all-trades role based out of a scruffy, shared, temporary co-working space in a run-down office block in Shoreditch.
I want to prefix this long diatribe with the disclaimers that I am not an expert on politics, I am not an economist, and I’m not even a particularly smart person. For reals.
This will be my second ever political blog posting. I’m almost ashamed of myself for doing it. I’m sorry. I’ve just never felt so compelled to write about things like this before - I’ve been on the losing side of every major election I’ve been able to vote in and I’ve brushed it off with a sigh and just, y’know… got on. Four years, we’ll go again… Notsomuch today.