-: What I love most about my job
is the ability to impact the things that I care about,
which is schools, students, teachers, right?
I started my career as a teacher.
I've worked in and out of education for most of my career,
and it's been from these different angles, right?
In the classroom, then working at the nonprofit side
with low-income kids directly,
helping run programs, and lobbying.
And then having worked for now four different tech companies
figuring out what role can these tech tools play,
either in their institutional efficiency,
or as actual classroom teaching and learning tools.
My biggest challenge is prioritization.
There's always competing priorities.
And it's that challenge of being proactive
and trying to get one big thing done a day,
when you know there's gonna be
fire drills that come up constantly,
there's gonna be executives that want things.
And my challenge to myself,
is to deliver something of value every day,
that isn't just reacting, right?
Actually pro acting, and doing something
that I feel needs to be done for my job,
for my team, for the market.
'Cause I can spend all day in internal decks,
in presentations, just sort of defending my business.
And that's not super satisfying, right?
So I try to keep that North Star every day,
I don't always do it.
But one thing that's helped is actually batching my emails,
so saying, just putting an out of office up
and saying, "Sorry, I'm trying to actually
"do work right now." (chuckles)
I will get back on email at noon, and 4:00,
thanks for understanding, text me if it's urgent.