A little blog of questionable wisdom written by Lucas Pierce. I do a lot of little things these days. I hope some of them do a little good.
These posts are old and new, serious and absurd, technical yet philosophical. I’ve kept even the questionable bits—partly for nostalgia, mostly as proof that wisdom arrives slowly, if at all.
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When I was retiring from Snap, I worried about how I would answer the question “Soooo, what do you do?” I saw an article in the SLO Tribune that Cal Poly was looking for computer science lecturers, and teaching seemed like a good answer. Less evil-sounding than “tech executive,” but still a little fancy and intellectual.
I also hoped that teaching would replace the watercooler-esque collegiality I was used to in an office environment. You go to refill your coffee and discuss the latest episode of Lanterns or maybe a new paper by a frontier lab. The casual, unscheduled chats of peers.
Continue reading →Long, long ago, I was born at home in Southeast Los Angeles. Our milk and potatoes were too often powdered, cereal came in bags, and Del Taco was a night out. My heart dreamed of something more. My stomach deserved better.
But where could I find better?
An uncle who’d been stationed in Bremerton talked about the good coffee and fresh sushi. The lack of sun that drove others away seemed, to me, like comfort; the California sun left me feeling exposed. I asked my parents for help getting there and they didn’t understand why I would go. They’d worked their way to California to escape places like Missouri (Missoura, if you’re my father). Why would I go someplace cold and gray, just to eat better?
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