Brian Hilson

Sadly, there were divorces and broken families and bad things that came out of that. But I also learned that even at a 20,000-person company, you can get a team of 100 people to work like their lives depend on it.

We have got to stop telling people to find a specific area of tech that they are “passionate” about and instead to tell people to go a) where they know they’ll be good at, b) will make them money, and c) they will have the most support.

Alfredo Rivera is the greatest storyteller of our time.

But the dominant use case for professional writing is writing for people who are college educated in the target language and, by that point, I think you can assume that they know the SAT word list or have good coping skills for new words.