Erica Joy BakerInterview
Senior Engineering Manager (Patreon), Diversity and Inclusion Advocate
Adapted from Erica Joy Baker's interview on Uses This, published 3 May 2018. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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My phone is an iPhone X.
I have 2 Razer Chroma keyboards, one at home, and at one at work.
I wear a Verily Study Watch every day as part of Project Baseline.
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Photoshop Lightroom+ 86 others
I mostly use it for that and Lightroom.
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My actual job that pays me is Senior Engineering Manager at Patreon.
If Ancestry let you do decent queries, you could probably figure out the trees of several families in a small county and how they were all related to one another in about a week, which would put Ancestry out of business because their whole business model relies on you constantly coming back to do more research.
I pushed to have Google focus on creating good and free to the world genealogy data sets (as part of the Google Books project) while I was there, but nobody was interested.
🤷🏾♀️ I'll give it my best shot: on the iMac, I'm running Plex Server.