Life update: last week I wrapped up my time @inkandswitch 🥲 Back in 2019, I remember being intrigued by the work coming out of this mysterious research lab. At the time there was barely even a website! But I could tell they had a big, compelling vision for a more humane kind of computing, and I wanted to be a part of it. I ended up working with the lab every summer while I did grad school at MIT, and then for a couple more years since finishing my PhD. During that time we got to explore all kinds of questions related to malleable software. How do you build a new kind of software environment that end-users can tweak on the fly? How do you weave together the best parts of docs and apps? How do you make tools that compose on shared local-first data? These are huge questions without easy answers, but we always tried our best to share what we found. (See our recent Malleable Software essay for some thoughts on these topics!) Looking back, two things made this a special experience. The first is the world-class collaborators. Each person brought a unique genius to every project, and I learned so much. Small teams of people who care are the best. The second is the unique context and structure of the lab. There aren't many places that are free of the time pressures of companies shipping products, but also free from the peculiar incentives of modern academia. Getting to do the work that we thought mattered, and share it in the ways that we thought would move the needle, was a big challenge and a rare opportunity. There's a lot more I could say about what makes I&S special, but I'll leave it at that for now. I'm super grateful to everyone at the lab, but especially @pvh for taking a chance on hiring me and for leading the lab through an incredible period of growth. There's so much cool stuff brewing and I can't wait to see where the mission goes from here. As for what's next: I'll be continuing to pursue the vision of malleable software, but in a different way! More on that soon...