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Two Years at Meta: From Zero to Platform
VPS evolved from concept to platform in two years - reflecting on the journey, the team, and what's next.- Retrospective
- Meta
- VPS
- Platform
- Leadership
Scaling the Team: From 15 to 50
Growing a team 3x in one year - hiring, onboarding, structure, and maintaining culture through rapid growth.- Team Building
- Hiring
- Leadership
- Scaling
- Meta
Six Months at Meta: Reflections on Scale
Half a year in - what I've learned about operating at Meta scale and building VPS from inception.- Meta
- Reflection
- Scale
- VPS
- Leadership
Knowledge Transfer: Preparing to Hand Off Four Years of Context
How do you transfer years of context when leaving a role? Documenting, training, and ensuring continuity.- Knowledge Transfer
- Transition
- Leadership
- Documentation
- Magic Leap
Four Years at Magic Leap: The Long View
Reflecting on nearly four years of building mixed reality systems - what I learned, what changed, and what's next.- Retrospective
- Career
- Mixed Reality
- Leadership
- Magic Leap
Global Team Coordination: US-Israel Collaboration
Lessons from managing perception development across continents - what actually works between Florida and Israel.- Leadership
- Remote Work
- Global Teams
- Collaboration
- Magic Leap
Year Two at Magic Leap: Shipping Teaches Everything
Reflections on the year we shipped - what a product launch teaches that no amount of planning can.- Retrospective
- Leadership
- Shipping
- Career
- Magic Leap
Pre-Launch Crunch: Debugging Under Pressure
The final push before device launch - triaging bugs, making hard cuts, and keeping the team functional under extreme pressure.- Launch
- Debugging
- Leadership
- Pressure
- Magic Leap
Year One at Magic Leap: A Retrospective
Reflecting on my first full year building mixed reality systems - what worked, what didn't, and what I've learned.- Retrospective
- Leadership
- Mixed Reality
- Career
- Magic Leap
Building a Perception Team from Scratch
Lessons from hiring and structuring a multi-disciplinary perception team spanning computer vision, optics, and embedded systems.- Team Building
- Hiring
- Leadership
- Perception
- Magic Leap
Lessons from Spec Freeze: Hardware-Software Co-Design
What I learned from our first major hardware spec freeze - the art of committing to specifications when uncertainty remains.- Hardware
- Specification
- Decision Making
- Leadership
- Magic Leap