Justin D’Onofrio

I’m a big believer in looking outside your bubble for inspiration; how bee colonies function, the legal, engineering, and cultural story behind the exploding Ford Pinto, the physics and chemistry behind the challenges of progressing battery technology.

“Culture is what you do.” (Big h/t to Shawn Blanc for this.)

Being in technology was always going to happen. I was building company-wide networks (literally crimping my own Ethernet cables) when I was 14, hustling random freelance tech and design work when I was 16 and started salaried work in tech at 19.

The things people take for granted. When I was young, loading a web page on a feature phone was an expensive, janky, and entirely text-based task, but the potential for it was massive once technology and services actually caught up to the idea. Today, accessing the internet on the go is barely thought about as a thing—it’s just there, in your pocket, and you only really appreciate its magnitude when it stops working. I can’t even imagine what we’ll take for granted tomorrow but I’m excited to find out.

Oh goodness yes. To name a few; a home printer that is the size of a ream of letter paper and can fit on its side subtly into a bookcase, and a simplified microwave with only one button (I'll let everyone contemplate which button it would be).