In honor of my recent job hunt, I thought I might relate my worst interviewing experience as a job candidate. It’s not that entertaining a story, but it was definitely painful to go through.

It was around 2005 when I applied for a job at Macromedia’s office out in Newton. As it happened, this was just before the company was swallowed by Adobe.

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This year’s birthday wasn’t the greatest piece of work I’ve ever experienced. Woke up with a sore throat that presaged the cold I’d deal with for the following weeks. Made the usual pilgrimage to Foxwoods (where I lost for the first time in three years) and visit to Purgatory Chasm, which was cold and grey but pleasant enough, then a big ( Read more... )

Somewhere in my travels I came across this contrarian secret about Buddhist teacher interviews: if you express anxiety or confusion at an ( Read more... )

As DargonZine’s founder and former editor, I was asked to make a few comments as they completed their 24th and began their record 25th year of online publication. I thought I’d share my responses here, in case anyone is interested.
Why did you start Dargonzine?
DargonZine, which was initially called FSFnet, really began out of my ( Read more... )