John AllspawInterview
SVP of TechOps, Etsy
Adapted from John Allspaw's interview on Uses This, published 14 October 2011. 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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A MacBook Pro, with an Intel Core 2 Duo and 250G SSD.
I love my Sony MDR V600 headphones.
Communication
Productivity
Writing (for books and blog posts) always starts in Word, because I need to not embarrass myself with spelling and grammar, especially given that my poet-sister will call me on screwing those up every time.
Browser
Notes
Coding & Development
My name is John Allspaw, and I'm currently the SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy.com, where I trick people into collaborating and cooperating with each other to solve large-scale infrastructure and engineering challenges.