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jacobian Jun 3, 2025

Two updates:

(1) I'm leaving the tech industry. Hopefully "for good"; at the very least, "for now"

(2) If you subscribe to my blog, the content's gonna change; I'm dropping the editorial focus I've had since 2020 and going back to writing about whatever the heck I want. Some of the same stuff, some new stuff, we'll see.

More here: https://jacobian.org/2025/jun/3/changing-directions/

Changing Directions - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

I have two important announcements: <ol> <li> I’m leaving the tech industry. Hopefully “for good”; if not, at least “for now”. </li> <li> As such, the content on this blog is going to shift, perhaps dramatically. I’m going to be writing about a broader range of topics that interest me (projects around my hobby farm, wilderness trips, emergency medicine) – more writing for me, less writing for some imagined audience. (I’ll probably still end up writing about some of the same topics as I’ve been covering since 2020, just less often.) </li> </ol> I’m writing this post mostly to give myself permission to make that change, and to give readers the opportunity to unsubscribe/unfollow if they’re not interested. If you’re interested in more details about why I’m leaving the industry and what’s next for me and this blog, read on.…

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Chris is.

@jacob one of my very best friends is a volunteer firefighter/EMT, admittedly in her spare time around a job in worksite safety. She finds it consistently satisfying and loves the camaraderie of it, often in stark contrast to the day job.

I hope you find that in what you pursue; from what I can tell it can be a very emotional profession in many ways.

I equally hope to still see you from time to time; having left tech, I imagine your attendance at PyCon will be less common.

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jacobian Jun 3, 2025

@offby1 thanks, really appreciate the kind words. I imagine I’ll keep coming to PyCon; for me it’s been much more about seeing friends than about programming for years now.