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<img class="img-responsive" src="/images/alameda-dogs.jpg" alt="Evan Meagher" style="margin-bottom: 2em;" />

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  <h2>What is this website?</h2>
  <p>This website is a blog. I mostly write about <a href="/2017/02/systems-thinkpiece/">systems</a>, <a href="/2017/05/lessons-learned-putting-a-thing-on-the-internet/">computer programming</a>, <a href="/2017/10/resiliency-in-energy-and-software/">energy technology and policy</a>, and <a href="/2014/06/coordinating-technological-change-in-large-software-organizations/">software engineering management</a>.</p>
  <p>You can follow my writing by subscribing to this blog's <a href="/atom.xml">Atom feed</a> or by <a href="https://twitter.com/evanm">following me on Twitter</a>.</p>
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  <h2>Who am I?</h2>
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    <li><span class="col-xs-1">🇮🇪</span><span class="col-xs-11">My inscrutably Irish last name is pronounced &#8220;mar&#8221;</span></li>
    <li><span class="col-xs-1">🌲</span><span class="col-xs-11">I live in San Rafael, CA with my <a href="https://www.lexrhoads.art">wife</a>, kids, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/olivejodog/">dog</a>.</span></li>
    <li><span class="col-xs-1">💻</span><span class="col-xs-11">I work at <a href="https://www.samsara.com/">Samsara</a> on time series ingestion and storage systems. In the past, I've worked at <a href="https://blog.x.company/why-the-electric-grid-needs-a-moonshot-6dbac9b8b2c2">X</a>, Whisker Labs, and Twitter.</span></li>
    <li> <span class="col-xs-1">🤔</span><span class="col-xs-11">I have expertise in distributed systems software, startup company strategy & management, <a href="/2020/02/five-years-in-energy/">decarbonization</a>, <a href="/2017/05/lessons-learned-putting-a-thing-on-the-internet/">IoT devices</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJP_108i0ik">RPC systems</a>.</span></li>
    <li><span class="col-xs-1">🏞</span><span class="col-xs-11">I <a href="/2019/03/my-climate-lobby-hobby/">volunteer</a> with the <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/">Citizens' Climate Lobby</a> and the <a href="https://oaklandtrails.org/">Oakland Park Patrol</a></span></li>
    <li><span class="col-xs-1">🎓</span><span class="col-xs-11">I studied computer science at the University of Washington in Seattle</span></li>
    <li><span class="col-xs-1">🌧</span><span class="col-xs-11">I grew up in Olympia, Washington</span></li>
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