Yes, I already have a place to write. In fact, I just wrote on LiveBytes about why I kept that domain long after its first life as a blog about going back to school. I knew I would want it for something someday. It became a studio with enough rooms for software, music, theater, learning, and the occasional argument with IMAP.
So why put writing here, too?
Because the two places start from different questions.
At LiveBytes, I am usually writing from inside the studio. I am building a tool, trying a working method, changing my mind about a product, or noticing how another part of my life affects the work on the bench. The Notes can wander. A rehearsal can lead to a thought about release planning. A stubborn email problem can lead to a piece about where data ought to live. The studio is allowed to look like the person using it.
This site is where I introduce my work to people who may not have walked into the studio yet. Some arrive because they are interested in technical program management or quality engineering leadership. Others may want to read about building software with AI, managing teams, testing an assumption, or deciding what should remain a human call. I want those ideas to have a home here in their own right, with room for the broader writing that follows them.
That does not mean I become a different person when the address changes. The same curiosity is doing the work. I will still bring in music when it helps me say something true, and I will still describe a software failure without polishing it into a leadership parable before the bug is fixed.
The distinction is useful to me as a writer. A Studio Note can begin, “Here is what happened at the workbench.” A piece here may begin with a question I have carried through several jobs: What does a quality engineer contribute when an AI agent can write code and tests? How do you lead a distributed team without confusing visibility with control? How much of a decision can be delegated before its owner loses the ability to defend it?
Those questions belong to my professional life, but I do not want to answer them in resume language. A resume has to compress. Writing gets to show the reasoning, the doubts, and sometimes the part I got wrong the first time.
There will be overlap. If a piece grows out of thePlan or Squirrel Board, I may point back to LiveBytes for the product story. If a Studio Note opens a larger question about leadership or quality, I may pick it up here. I would rather connect the two places than pretend I can file every thought into a perfect category before writing it.
You can browse this section by category or follow a tag into the narrower subjects that interest you. I find that more useful than asking you to read everything in the order I happened to publish it. The categories can grow as the writing does.
Two places may sound extravagant for someone who sometimes has to coax herself into writing at all. Perhaps it is. But each gives me permission to approach the page differently. LiveBytes remains the studio. Here, I have room to follow the larger questions out of it.
~ Trish