Hi!

I'm Jon. Welcome to my site! This site acts as a hub for my public presence, and covers a mixure of personal and professional life.

There are a few key elements to this site:

Blog

Initially I just wanted a place to blog. I have extensive personal notes, and I appreciate the heck out of those pages of concise bullet points, but some thoughts and experiences are far more enjoyably and usefully captured as stream of consciousness (or other narrative form). The blog is mostly for me, but you're invited to read and welcome to chat with me about it!

Portfolio and Projects

This site in its entirety acts as my portfolio. As I mentioned above, this site is a mix of personal and professional, and I believe that mix is crucial to the value of a modern portfolio.

What is the value of a portfolio? The concise and purely professional document already exists elsewhere in the form of a resume/resumé/résumé/CV (if you're interested in mine, please contact me and I can provide it for you). With that in mind, the modern value of a portfolio seems to be to showcase the career journey and personality of the individual. Employers care about culture fit, and a site that includes both personal and professional is an accurate portrayal of who I am day-to-day far moreso than a highlight reel would be.

Besides, it would be difficult to fit all my blog posts in a traditional portfolio.

Fun, Learning, and Practice

I enjoy working on this site, adding new features, and treating it like a small non-profit business that I own and to which I can apply prioritization and design goals as I see fit. For more on the design goals and architecture of this site, see my About This Site section.

Enjoy!

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Contact

Do you have feedback or otherwise want to contact me? Feel free to reach out on my LinkedIn.