Carl Alexander

I gave a talk on neurodiversity at Decoupled Days 2026. This is the companion article that I wrote for it. If you’re just looking for the slides, click here. For most of my life, I was just making choices. I chose self-employment. I chose control over my schedule. I chose remote work, coffee shops, travel, […]

As I start writing this year in review, the first thing that comes to my mind is this holiday memory I have (and many other nerds have 🤣) from my youth: Going to see Lord of the Rings in theatres. For three years, every December, we’d get to go watch an unfolding epic saga. The […]

I guess I’ll start this by acknowledging the milestone that this is my 10th year in review. (You can read the previous ones here.) It’s a milestone that comes with mixed feelings. In a way, that’s also the best way to describe how I’m feeling as 2024 comes to a close. On the one hand, […]