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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Career Move

I've been offered a job in the iterative process leadership space, starting pretty soon.  As y'all know I'm pretty bonkers pro-iterative feedback systems...and I may have mentioned that I have some work background in that space.

So...I'm escaping the people's republic of California where I grew up...and going home to Texas: land of guns, $100K houses with pools on acreage, barbecue and cheap chalupas (actually, I prefer taqueria tacos to chalupas...but I'm signalling Cowenite pro-immigrationist and foodie solidarity; we all know that if the proprietor or wait-staff in a taqueria speak English at all, it says bad things about the usually impressive food quality).

Will the last person out of California please turn out the lights?

13 comments:

drpat said...

So you're assuming the last person will leave California before the power is shut off for non-payment of bills...

Aretae said...

They've got a lot of hydro-electric power, and a reasonable supply of nukes too. If Sili Valley would decamp to Austin or something...life would be good, and they would have electricity, even insolvent.

Kent McManigal said...

If you find yourself in my corner of Texas, drop by.

Jehu said...

California perhaps ought to fission into 3-4 states.

Anonymous said...

Sweet

Isegoria said...

In the iterative process leadership space?

So, which part of Texas? Austin?

(Congrats, by the way.)

bluntobject said...

Congrats!

Funny to hear the same old jokes about Saskatchewan applied to California. I don't mind basking in a little schadenfreude today.

Aretae said...

BluntObject,

Thanks. Both the 'grats and the link.

kx59 said...

Well, Welcome home!
I think the valley migration to Austin has started. Apple is building about 600,000 square feet in two buildings there.

Aretae said...

kx59,

Thanks. I'll be happy to be home.

rightsaidfred said...

... cheap chalupas...we all know that if the proprietor or wait-staff in a taqueria speak English at all, it says bad things about the usually impressive food quality).

If we import future generations for the sake of cheap chalupas, will we still be able to support jobs in iterative process leadership space?

Borepatch said...

Careful when you go over the razor wire at the border. That stuff cuts pretty bad. ;-)

I'm bummed that I'm leaving next week (well, not bummed, but you know what I mean). But welcome to freedom.

Aretae said...

Borepatch,

1. I have little doubt you and the lovely-and-would-like-Texas-better-not-in-the-summer Mrs. Borepatch will be tricked into driving back out for another blogshoot in the next year or so. So...yeah, I'm kinda sad too.

2. We're thinking of getting a Hummer to handle the barbed wire. And to help prevent global cooling. (not really).