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December 2025

Questions for a Happier 2026
Not resolutions, but reflections on what actually mattered
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Tracing the Edges of My Ikigai: What the World Needs, and What We Miss
An Ikigai reflection on people, systems, and wasted potential
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Nineteen Years Ago, I Shipped a Reminder
How BillReminder, Glade, and a stubborn love of simplification shaped my early years in open source.
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Tracing the Edges of My Ikigai: What I’m Good At
Lessons from feedback, fire drills, and the quiet work of helping people find clarity
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The Gift You Don’t Open Right Away
Finding the truth inside hard feedback
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The Role I Wanted—and the One I Left
It was July 16th, 2019.
 • Og Maciel
Tracing the Edges of My Ikigai
The end of the year is quickly approaching, and this is the season when people managers get busy completing performance reviews for the engineers who…
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Confessions of a Teenage Emblem Thief
I was fourteen when I first heard about people who “harvested” car emblems for the thrill of it.
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November 2025

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