9 days into May, and I feel like I have a bit of an "announcement" to share that has been a few months in the making.
End of last year, I came to the end of a long (10,5 years!) and rewarding journey at Neo4j. I had put my heart and soul into that project, and was at the same time sad and thankful for the goodbyes that I had to say. Lars Nordwall and Emil Eifrem will forever be in my heart, as will be so many other wonderful graphistas that I got to know and love.
At the end of a journey like that, you would think that you want want to take it easy, or take your time, or do nothing for a while. And in some ways I did. But in other ways, I just did not want too much idle time. Having some time to reflect would be good. Having too much time to reflect would have someone like me go pretty crazy, pretty fast.
So when Pascal Desmarets and I had a wonderful lunch sometime in January, I decided pretty quickly that I was not going to let the opportunity pass, and that I would want to do some part time work for Hackolade. It seemed like a great idea - and now, 3+ months later, I feel like it really was. Earlier this month, on May 1st, I joined the Hackolade team as full time member - and I could not be more stoked about that. Let me tell you why I feel that way.