Carl Tashian

@tashian

Exec coach: & lifelong programmer. Past: ♻️ Yerdle co-founder, 🚗 built Zipcar's technology. 🏳️‍🌈 he/him

San Francisco, California
Joined August 2008

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    18 Sep 2019

    Just posted: A longform piece about Dynamicland, Bret Victor, and the future of computational research.

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  2. 11 hours ago

    All learning is experiential

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  3. Jan 29

    "The 1896 coverage of the Market Street bike protest was whimsical, to match the scene. A reported 5,000 bikers pedaled with costumes and colorful lanterns. Floats were built and paraders wore macabre costumes." 🤟👹💀🚲

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  4. Jan 29

    Today is the first day of a car free Market St. in San Francisco! This project is 100+ years in the making. Here's an amazing historical take by that traces the battle over Market St. back to a huge Burning Man-style bike rally in 1896!

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  5. Jan 29

    "We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don’t realize that knowing more demands a corresponding development of morality." — Carl Jung

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  6. Retweeted
    Jan 18

    Tickets for , the best !!Con in the west, are on sale right now! Because radical affordability is one of our principles, you can pay what you want -- last year, attendees paid anything from $1 to $256. Grab 'em before they're gone!

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  7. Jan 23

    If you contribute to open source, please take this 3 min community survey to help identify priorities and challenges of the open-source community. Complete dataset will be made public.

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  8. Jan 17

    They should have called it Bluetoot.

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  9. Jan 16

    Been a programmer since I was 12 and every year since then I’ve grown in my confidence that I’m a beginner.

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  10. Jan 16

    Every emoji picker should have descriptions on hover

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  11. Jan 15

    I think hiring—which might be the most important process at a company—could be creative and fun for everyone, but it's so hard to get right, for both sides. I'd like to think I'm doing my part as a candidate, by simply being myself.

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  12. Jan 15

    On the other hand, the conversations with ICs, managers, and execs have been the most fruitful. Creative, playful, honest. They get me, even when there's not a fit. They are excited to stay in touch. We send links to each other after. It feels much more like dating.

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  13. Jan 15

    You could say I haven't been clear enough about who I am. And there's some truth to that. I resist boxing myself in. I'm working on that. But it can also be true that recruiters generally move too fast to see me.

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  14. Jan 15

    I'm surprised that recruiters tend to play such a short and transactional game, when it is such a relational role. But that's how the incentives are set up most places. They are gatekeepers. As a result I tend to come away feeling like they missed me entirely.

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  15. Jan 15

    Being real means presenting a nuanced, flawed, learning human. It's harder to box me up and ship me through an interview process. Recruiters don't have time for the nuance. So, my conversations with recruiters have been the least fruitful.

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  16. Jan 15

    The biggest downside has surprised me: Most internal recruiters I've talked to have been turned off by my realness. Recruiters want to put people into a box as fast as possible. My approach and my background frustrate that.

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  17. Jan 15

    Being real in interviews also has its downsides. I don't have a perfectly crafted answer for every question. I have to be relaxed enough to improvise. I have to be comfortable pausing for a few seconds sometimes, to discover what I'm going to say. Meditation helps here.

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  18. Jan 15

    And when there's a fit, I'll know it's genuine. If I had the interview mask on, I'd be trying to squeeze myself into a story about who I think I should be. Without the mask, I'm ready to be surprised by what turns me on. In the end, the genuine fit may be something unexpected!

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  19. Jan 15

    Another upside is that I get to learn as I go. I'm not afraid to let each conversation change me. These are my peers. I'm not afraid to be wrong, and to fail, and to learn about myself through the mirror of these interactions.

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  20. Jan 15

    The biggest upside is that I remain motivated and excited by the process, so I haven't quit or settled for something I don't want. It's fun rather than demoralizing. Each person I've talked to has given me energy.

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  21. Jan 15

    So far I've taken the approach of just being real and present with everyone I meet. Being myself. This goes against the usual advice of creating a mask and wearing it into interviews. But being real has had huge upsides for me.

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