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Like most of my major life decisions, this was made somewhat impulsively. There wasn't one big reason, rather many nudges that all happened to peak at the same time: I'll be working for TigerBeetle 3 out of every 4 weeks, with the other week reserved for research, tinkering and writing here. I think the direction of my own work next year will be different - I'll let go of the work on programming languages/environments which consumed most of this year to focus on more near-future work on databases and query engines. I'm going to return my Emergent Ventures grant. That money will have more leverage elsewhere. I'll leave my github sponsors open but I'll take down the banners here, and I think it's perfectly reasonable for y'all to cancel your sponsorships. This log will keep going too, because I like to read other peoples monthly notes. It's a version of social media that respects attention and focus. The last two years were worthwhile. I will definitely try more independent efforts in th

I'll be in San Francisco Nov 6-11, and in Seattle for Handmade Nov 15-19. tigerbeetle In October I joined the database team at TigerBeetle . Like most of my major life decisions, this was made somewhat impulsively. There wasn't one big reason, rather many nudges that all happened to peak at the same time: I'm getting tired of working alone and I've had no success finding collaborators. All of the people I'd like to work with are either already busy working full-time or are totally burnt out. For the last year I've been feeling I'm stagnating - not being pushed outside my comfort zone. HYTRADBO

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