I've spent much of the past year of my professional life frustrated, working within companies that have great potential to innovate but not taking full advantage. Time and again I run up against outdated, big company attitudes that innovation involves only the technology stack and fail to realize that true agility and innovation means sometimes doing hard work on an organizational level. I decided to clearly define what I provide and require in order to find the right organization, so I put a letterish thing out to the world.

Through this last year I've learned a lot about myself. I cannot help but be a boat-rocker at any cost. I am impatient and insist upon honesty, transparency and hold others to high standards of self-reflection. I am also (perhaps unhealthily) drawn to the largest challenge I can find, even when red flags are waving all over the place.