I expect this time of being less-busy will be refreshing, give me better perspective, and ultimately help me come back as a better Leader.

Very grateful for the full support from our founders and other EPD leadership coworkers to give me space to do this!

- Getting re-acquainted with some more modern coding practices and actually shipping code on Close again
- Exploring other creative ideas that may be impactful to the business
- Whatever else seems interesting :)

- Some key leadership hires on my team were hired and fully onboarding recently, and doing great.
- With AI, there's never been a more exciting time to just build!

What exactly am I up to?
- Deeper exploration of AI Coding Agents

- We split our big Product/Eng team into 6 smaller teams at EOY (I'll write more about this re-org later), and those teams are now fully up-and-running
- We recently got back from our Paris all-company retreat where the whole company got increased clarity/alignment around product vision & roadmap

Instead, I'm getting to just explore ideas and reconnect with some IC work. Almost no calls/meetings, just Maker Time – for nearly the whole summer. Couldn't be more excited about it!

I decided to do this since the timing seemed perfect:

For the last couple weeks I've been on an "Management Sabbatical" – a term I dubbed for where I'm working full-time, but on none of my typical leadership/management type work.

If you started following me here recently – I’m curious how you found me?

At this rate I’ll have more followers here soon than on X.

Can I customize what I get push notifications for on here? One per new follower is a bit much right now.

Do I have to hate Twitter/X to be here?

👋 Now just set up your handle as your domain in settings!

Settings > Handle > have my own domain

This might be a no-no to ask here but is there a cross-poster either from or to Twitter?

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Easy, thanks!

Got my custom domain handle set up, cool

How do you use a custom domain?

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