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Sup. I’m Javin. Welcome to a blog Link to heading

My interests include rotisserie chicken, quality television, and technology. There are probably others. but I promised myself this first post would be stream of thought. Coming up with stuff about yourself on the spot tends to be hard. That also rings true for grammar. Sorry grammar sharks.

There may be pictures, thoughts on tech, and opinions related to the state of black America.

But first things first. Who am I? and why should you care? Link to heading

Born in Jamaica ( the island, not queens) and raised in New York ( which contains queens….kings too). I grew up in a Jamaican household. There, I learned to appreciate food with taste and tough love, among other things. In time, I went off to college to study accounting and even got a degree in it. That felt necessary. I’ve learned it’s cold out here without a degree. Through hustle and fortune, I landed a job as an accountant with a pretty cool company. And through even more hustle and fortune, I realized accounting wasn’t for me. That led to a journey through the University of Google. So that today I stand as a self-taught software engineer. Nowadays I count bytes instead of dollars. And I can’t imagine it being any other way.

So why should you care? Link to heading

In all honesty, you don’t have to. But you can. You have the capacity to. Especially when you can

  1. suspend disbelief and
  2. bask in the experiences and perspective of others.

Doing these have brought me fortune, and refined my hustle. My experiences speak to:

  1. the immigrant experience
  2. the black experience
  3. the 20 something trying to figure out how/why TSA pre-check experience
  4. and then some

In sharing these, I will connect with others and create more than I consume on the internetz.

And as always, these thoughts and opinions are my own. Your’ word and your’ words are all you have. Only you can deprive yourself of either.