it's literally what steve ballmer was trying to tell you about all those years ago. developers, developers, developers. if people want to make your site better for free, let them.

do you charge the goose to lay its golden eggs

if you are a platform, like reddit or twitter or windows, people don't come there for the platform itself. they come there for the things people make for it. historically, that's "you (well, OEMs and big businesses, mostly. microsoft doesn't care about selling Windows to individuals) buy windows because you want to run Office and Outlook and video games and whatever else people have written for it. you don't go to Twitter or Reddit because you enjoy clicking on the buttons there, you do it because other people put things there you want to see. you want to make it as easy as possible for the people who already want to give you their valuable shit for free.

anyways, if anyone's looking for someone to be president of their website, i'm currently unemployed, so

i'm literally a top mentor on the wisdom app. what more could you want

it would be really funny if i posted my way into having a job, but i get the feeling that this isn't the kind of website where that happens

i would be really good at being a tech CEO, but i probably wouldn't last very long because i would refuse to chase cycles of hype bullshit.

i'm sure some place out there would love to hire a great software engineer who's also a beloved writer, communicator, and any number of other things, but, like, looking on job listing websites is so unlikely to help

the main problem is that i got my last job a gender, ideology, and eight years ago, and it's a lot harder to care about the same kind of bullshit now, y'know

employers should just know that i'm the one person on earth with nothing but correct software opinions and pay me appropriately to have them. is that too much to ask

@BestGirlGrace You'd be over the line if you added "... and a pony". Otherwise it sounds pretty reasonable.