Look back at golden thread
Vincent Batts
CTO, Kinvolk
devconf.us 2020
$> finger $(whoami)
Login: vbatts Name: Vincent Batts
Directory: /home/vbatts Shell: /bin/bash
Such mail.
Plan:
OHMAN
$> id -Gn
wheel devel kinvolk oci docker redhat fedora golang akamai slackware sweep
(♥The Oatmeal)
(♥The Oatmeal)
#goals
changed jobs
during pandemic
big company into a smol company
#goals
- have more food options than beans and rice
- not miss rent or critical bills
- make a meaningful contribution to an open source project
- make a contribution to the kernel
- travel out of the country for work
- start a company as the CTO
seeking out the experts
(realizing and ensuring I am not the smartest person in the room)
get comfortable with some vulnerability
and then ...
some one on IRC let me know a change I made fixed their issue
now
the community I'm indebted to,
I have a responsibility to
What you do
(and how you do it)
makes a difference
(bonkers, I know)
basement
bank IT
finish university
then kids
being denied
wish to eat
wish to eat
partner
#motivation
periodic review of yourself
(make decisions)
((they're the worst))
(((better make your decisions that someone else does)))
Big jump from Alabama
to NoVA/DC
to slow down and be closer to the blue ridge mtns
little company in Raleigh ...
getting paid and working in FOSS
literally couldn't even
required more reflection
and new hobbies
In Open Source,
We are all Individual Contributors
(it is your name out there)
passion + surrounded-by-smarties
= awkward
radix trie and huffman trie
your good ideas may get mixed into others' good ideas
indebted responsibility
comfortably vulnerable
motivations
hindsight can tell what has prepared you for this moment
(being honest with yourself will help you bring others along)
Vincent Batts
