Everyone is (or should be) a leader. Everyone has the opportunity to influence others. This includes people who are in formal leadership positions (e.g. CEO, VP, Director, Manager) and people who are not (e.g. individual contributors). There are three pillars to my leadership philosophy: Have principles and live by them. Don’t rely on good intentions. Find the crux through rigorous debate. My leadership philosophy was shaped during my 21-year tenure at Microsoft, where I “faked it until I made it”.

One of my hobbies is pretending I can code. I put almost all of my code on Github. Terminal.Gui (aka gui.cs) A toolkit for building console Terminal UI (TUI) apps using .NET. Works on Windows, the Mac, and Linux/Unix. The original author, Miguel de Icaza graciously allowed me to take it over and maintain it. It is now the most popular library for building TUI apps in .NET. Terminal.Gui WinPrint WinPrint is a text file printing utility I first wrote in 1988, which makes printing text documents in Windows and Powershell incredibly simple.

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