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Brian Fitzpatrick

Brian Fitzpatrick

Grief is an awful sofa

Twenty-two years ago this week my grandfather died. We were really close and his death (due to cancer. Fuck cancer) hit me really hard. I…

3 min readJul 31, 2020

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Grief is an awful sofa

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Brian Fitzpatrick

Shit Sandwich

[This is an excerpt from Debugging Teams, written by Ben Collins-Sussman and myself. If you like it, we suggest buying a copy for yourself…

5 min readMay 7, 2018

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Shit Sandwich

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Brian Fitzpatrick

How to Ask a Busy Executive for Anything

[This is an excerpt from Debugging Teams, written by Ben Collins-Sussman and myself. If you like it, we suggest buying a copy for yourself…

6 min readMar 13, 2018

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Brian Fitzpatrick

Ten Rules for a Better Conference Name Badge

Update: Badge Reviews is now a website!

7 min readNov 9, 2017

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Ten Rules for a Better Conference Name Badge

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Brian Fitzpatrick

Finally Hearing Sgt. Peppers

When the remixed version of Sgt. Peppers was released a few weeks ago, I paid no attention. I’ve had way too many of my favorite albums and…

2 min readJun 11, 2017

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Brian Fitzpatrick
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Tock

Your Company Will Screw Up…Mine Did

The real question is: what do you do then?

2 min readApr 21, 2017

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HackerNoon.com

The Gift of Pi

Many years ago, back in the late 90’s, I worked on a large software project with some friends, including Ben Collins-Sussman, Lęfty…

3 min readMar 14, 2017

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Tock

OpenTable is making restaurants buy back their own customers over and over and over again

If you’re a popular restaurant using OpenTable, you’re likely paying them thousands of dollars a year more than they deserve. And I’m going…

5 min readFeb 27, 2017

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How to Get into Software Engineering without a Degree

I have a major in Latin and a minor in Greek. Oh, and my backup plan in case that didn’t work out: I got the equivalent of a minor in Fine…

3 min readAug 29, 2016

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Fitbit wants you to buy your data back [EDIT: Not quite]

[EDIT: Thanks to Jeremiah Lee for setting the record straight: Despite the misleading info on the Fitbit Premium page, you can download…

2 min readAug 26, 2016

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Fitbit wants you to buy your data back [EDIT: Not quite]

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Brian Fitzpatrick

Brian Fitzpatrick

Founder & CTO: Tock, Inc. http://www.tock.com/ , Xoogler, Ex-Apple, Author, Co-founder of ORD Camp. Feminist. ✶✶✶✶ Chicagophile ✶✶✶✶ ‘No Formal Authority’ — HBR

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