When Life Hands You Lemons, Build an Application
Why Gizmo?
I spent eight months unemployed. It was a long stretch and it was tough. I’ve spent years creating cool software, first as a developer, then manager, then director and so on, and for the last 15 years or so, as an executive. Then suddenly, you’re not wanted anymore.
While interviewing for VP level positions I was told, on more than one occasion, that I was “too experienced”. Really? For a VP position? You said the quiet part out loud.
Sadly, especially in tech, age and experience are punished, rather than valued. Discrimination, in all its many forms, is ugly. But the schadenfreude-ish upside to age discrimination is that we all get old. You’re not immune, and your time will come. Mine did. I imagine young me preferred to hire younger developers too. It’s human.
When I’m frustrated, or sad, or out-of-sorts, I play music, write and build software. These all-consuming endeavors put you into a state of flow and your problems vanish, at least for a little while. And this time, the result was Gizmo Life Planner.
Gizmo in a Nutshell
Gizmo is a lot of “little” applications, each designed to make my life a bit easier (and now, yours too). I created a plugin-based…
