Joining Calm.

Today is a particularly exciting day because I can finally stop telling folks that I’mjoininga new role, and instead say that I’vestarteda new role, and in particular that I’ve joinedCalmto serve as their CTO. I’ve written a few words here, will update my Twitter and LinkedIn profiles, and then it’s time to get to work onmy first ninety days。

Deciding to embark on a new endeavor is never easy, so I wouldn’t say that deciding to join Calm was easy! It took a good deal of reflection on both Calm andmy priorities。However, I can say that the decisionbecameeasy as I came to understand the mission and spent time with Michael and Alex, the leadership team, and especially folks on the engineering team. I learned a lot through the process, and foremost I learned that this was the company and team I wanted to be part of, learn from, and grow with.

I also enjoya good coincidence, and had fun reading Kaya Thomas’The path to managementpublished alongside my ownDo engineering managers need to be technical?in Increment’sTeams issue, and then a day later getting to chat with Kaya directly about her work at Calm.

我前面提到过这个角色change a few times, starting with my2019 in Reviewpost where I wrote a bit about what I appreciated the most about my genuinely transformational time at Stripe. Stripe is a company of writers and consequently there is a rich history of post-Stripe exposition such asMark McGranaghan’s postandBrianna Wolfson’s tweet storm。这不是necessarilyimpossible that I’ll extend the remarks in2019 in Reviewat some point with more learnings from Stripe, but I think it takesyearsforpersonal experiencesto mull into a good story, so don’t stay up late waiting. (And Ialready wrotemuch of what I learned as it happened.)

If history is an accurate predictor of the future, then starting a new role and the rapid learning that it brings will lead me to writemorerather than less this year, but less over the next few months (and I have a goal to write a bit less this year than last year, so there are some confounding factors in play here). For the time being, I have some pieces written and scheduled to publish the first Tuesday of each month through August, so hopefully you, dear reader, won’t get too bored in the meantime.

That said, if youdoget bored,Calm is indeed hiring。