Evan Light<p>I wanted to take another stab at an <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a>.</p><p>"We are all different people, all through our lives and that's okay. That's good. You've got to keep moving—just so long as you remember all of the people that you used to be."</p><p>I have been a:</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/manager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manager</span></a> for a number of years at a couple of business: <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/DevOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DevOps</span></a> at Heroku and owner of <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/SRE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SRE</span></a> for Trust at a little business called LinkedIn.</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/PsychologicalSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PsychologicalSafety</span></a> hipster, grappling with the concept before the phrase entered the zeitgeist</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/CraftPerson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CraftPerson</span></a>, striving always to produce more maintainable and readable <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/idealist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idealist</span></a> inspired early in life by <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/startrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>startrek</span></a>, forever hoping to move the world closer to that post-scarcity utopia whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/ThoughtLeader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtLeader</span></a>, self-conscious for wanting so much to make a difference and chock full of <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/ImpostorSyndrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImpostorSyndrome</span></a>, creating and running a yearly 3-night <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/OpenSpaceTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSpaceTechnology</span></a> summer camp for Ruby developers for about 10 years</p><p>shin shin toitsu <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/aikido" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aikido</span></a> practitioner, how I first learned to <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/meditate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meditate</span></a> 33 years ago.</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/teacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teacher</span></a> of <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meditation</span></a>, <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/EmotionalIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmotionalIntelligence</span></a>, and <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>leadership</span></a> skills, decades later.</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/CatParent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CatParent</span></a> to 4... er.... now 5 cats. This is getting out of hand.</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/husband" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>husband</span></a> and <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/caregiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>caregiver</span></a> to a wife with <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/HuntingtonsDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HuntingtonsDisease</span></a> for 10 years until her passing.</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/husband" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>husband</span></a>, again, 4 years after my first wife's passing—later finding true belonging and peace for the first time in my adult life.</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>human</span></a> who uncomfortably yet eagerly accepts the lessons the world present to him.</p><p>"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."</p>