Whether due to naive exuberance or hardnecked perspicacity, the overarching throughline for my career in the technology sector could be best described as the focus on solving complex problems that tend to send some people heading in the opposite direction.
In every one of my recent positions I have found myself with ownership of products that had been stalled out or left undared, and a large and unruly set of stakeholders whom I have empowered to demand solutions to problems that they have been told are unsolvable. Through persistent focus on fundamentals of product development, and armed only with the proverbial flashlight and compass (or a chainsaw and a '73 Oldsmobile), it has been my...