Maintaining Clarity

"For the last two years, OLPC has been more a second home than workplace. My coworkers were another family, and we all worked harder than we thought possible. I learned what it meant to believe in a mission so much that nights and days blur together, and the prospect of success keeps you going even when your brain begins to defocus and your body craves sleep with desperation.

"Looking back, it's been a demented ride: I've worked on everything from advising firmware development to debugging nasty kernel threading issues, improving data storage, chasing down Sugar problems across the entire stack, school server development, internal organization security and the software security platform, and interfacing with developers and executives both about our mission and technology..."

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