There's an saying that, with kids, the days are long and the years are short. Like everything, it takes experience to actually understand something. Over the last few years I've come to deeply understand this adage. It's beautiful and tragic to realize how quickly things move when you pause for a few moments to think about life and family and the people you love.

This past summer has been full of outdoors - travel, camping, hiking, road trips, fun with cousins and aunts and uncles and nieces and nephews.

I think a lot about what the future will look like for our children and about what skills, traits, and perspectives will be most valuable for them to bring into the world as they get older.

I'm still working as an product leader at a cybersecurity organization. It is, by far, the largest organization I've worked with. I've been here for over three years. My work is now focused on identity security, identity posture management, and identity threat detection and response. A year and a half ago I couldn't tell you the first thing about these particular areas of security beyond vague, hand-wavy buzz words.

The real challenges I see at work are not so much technical, but mostly relate to inspiring teams across the organization to collaborate more and to help them see a broader vision than their individual product areas. It's good work with good people.

Reading
After a couple years, finally finished the full collection of Hemingway's short stories...It feels like finishing Moby Dick in a way. Some were spectacular, some were great, some were just good. I just picked up The Place of Tides by James Rebanks. I came across it at a local book store and I'm enjoying it so far. See more details on my Reading page here.

Watching
It's football season, so I'm catching bits of games on Sundays in between things (see Random below ;-) ). The latest season of Great British Baking Show is a weekly watch, and Only Murders in the Building, but beyond that we don't get in front of the TV much.

Listening
The kiddo is really into Rancid lately, which is a joy for me, but not so much my wife. That said, he's also into Chvrches, which my wife likes, and I'm -meh- on. Regardless, it's wonderful having a 4-year old that gets into real music and not Disney or little kids songs...

Random
We started a family fantasy football league for my extended family this year with three generations of participants (my dad and an uncle, a slew of my generation and spouses, and a couple of nieces and nephews!). Last fall my cousin, who'd bought an old RV and was traveling around North America in it, stayed with us for a couple of weeks in Maine in the fall. She and her immediate family had started a small league and she'd be chatting with her family on whatsapp about it on the weekends. So we expanded it this year. None of us are huge football fans, but it's a really fun way to connect with (and trash talk to) family.