Evan Light<p>I wanted to take another stab at an <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DevOps</span></a> at Heroku and owner of <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/SRE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/idealist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idealist</span></a> inspired early in life by <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/startrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meditate</span></a> 33 years ago.</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/teacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>teacher</span></a> of <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meditation</span></a>, <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/EmotionalIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmotionalIntelligence</span></a>, and <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leadership</span></a> skills, decades later.</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/CatParent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>husband</span></a> and <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/caregiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caregiver</span></a> to a wife with <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/HuntingtonsDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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>