Category Archives: Mozilla

Onward

(photo credit: Jay Goldman)
To tell you the truth, I didn’t know what to expect 4 summers ago when I started at Mozilla. We were in our (extremely small) space on Villa St; Firefox was taking off; I was quickly learning that the Mozilla-style of doing things did not quite match what I expected . [...]

The Glass House

A few weeks ago I took a trip to the East Coast — it wasn’t really the best week for me to travel — there was an awful lot going on at work and at home that I needed to attend to — but I went to a little town in Connecticut called New Canaan [...]

Poetry & Pragmatics: Mozilla All Hands 2009

This week we had about 250 employees & contractors from across Mozilla-land out to Mountain View for an all hands meeting. It was a great week, full of interesting conversations with people who are really dedicated to changing the world and making the web a better place. Super generative; sometimes contentious; always earnest & dedicated [...]

Glass House Conversation: Transparency

Next week I’m traveling to New York to participate in a conversation at the Philip Johnson Glass House — it’s a sort of design+culture+art salon where a number of leaders talk about various topics and seek to understand and act as catalysts for new sorts of action.
I was invited after an introduction from my friend [...]

Walking in the footsteps of giants

Mike Beltzner and I had a neat experience today — we got to give a talk at Stanford’s CS547 class on how we do design at scale at Mozilla, with Firefox in particular. It was a nostalgic and humbling experience for me — revisiting a set of experiences that significantly changed my life. In the [...]