Stefan Mai

I’m Stefan Mai, cofounder of Hello Interview, software engineer, and dad of three. This is where I write things down and occasionally change my mind.

Stefan Mai
Sunlight over waves along a rocky coastline

Not much better

Some people write to discover themselves. This is hard for me to believe — everything feels like garbage once it has been given a few months to breathe. So why write?

The cool thing about maintaining a long train of rubbish on the internet is tracking the evolution of a viewpoint. Too often people emphatically define who they are in a given moment without fully acknowledging the constant of change.

Each post is not much better at identifying me than the post before. But the themes that fall out point to where I will be.

Writing

  1. Changing minds

    Everyone reacts to inflammatory opinions on the internet. Never before in society has the invisible battleground of ideas been so visible. And what’s not to love about the invigorating, almost tribal feelings behind stepping up...

  2. Seattle and Newness

    It’s been said that the soul travels at the pace of a camel. You can move to Amsterdam but it’ll take a few months before you’re really there. I’ve been in Seattle for almost two...

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