Compiling the Past and Linking the Dots

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward." When Steve Jobs said that, he was talking about calligraphy classes and typography. For me, it was buffer overflows, rendering equations, and the Chromium project. If you had looked at my career path a decade ago, you wouldn't have seen a straight line. You would have seen a sharp, arguably foolish, jagged…