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Andy & Alexandra Discuss Ukraine

By Andy Jones
In Life
1 month ago
27March

In 2012, I hired a Ukrainian web development firm. At the time, they had a dozen employees and offered an array of technical services my company needed. My initial project manager, Alexandra, was one of their company founders. She was ambitious, highly competent, and just as important, likable. As their company grew from 12 people to ~200 employees, Alexandra moved from project management for...

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Losing Our Childhood

By Andy Jones
In Life
1 month ago
16March

When I was little, I had an assortment of plastic toy animals – farm animals, a few dinosaurs, a giraffe, an elephant, and some others odd characters… the usual gang of creatures a young child might enjoy. And I did. This motley crew became the bedrock of an imaginary world that could occupy my mind and engross me in solitary play for extended periods. I don’t recall the various adventures my...

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