Well, I mean, I still care very passionately about the – there’s things that I care about in tech and things that I care about outside of tech, and I think that my advocacy and my heart breaks for all the disasters in the world… If you follow my Twitter for years, or my blog, you’ll see that; there’s a particular series of injustices that have – you know, Palestine has always been a very sad story.

I still care about those things, and I think they got really the short end of the stick but there’s countless other problems in society that need to be solved. We have a lot of really smart people, and we should be fixing those issues.

I think that the passion and the desire to go and fix those things is there. Having kids certainly doesn’t leave a lot of time to sign up for doing talks and advocacy in places… But one of my co-workers, Nina Vyedin - she runs the Indivisible Summerville organization and they’re doing all kinds of very interesting social changes in our community; they start there and they take it elsewhere. But I think that just having a family kind of takes a toll on your time for doing some of the more advocacy things that I do wanna do.

In the tech world, I would say, before I go there, that one thing that was very interesting is that the new CEO is very different, Satya Nadella. Not only he embraces the change in Linux and open source and these things, but as an individual he is deeply empathetic, he relates to other people, and he tries o get himself in other people’s shoes, and tries to understand their perspective.

[ ] So from the tech perspective, I like to think that we can do more, in our software, to be more empathetic. I think that it shows beautifully, for example, with Apple products; they’re products that people love to use… They work for the user, not against the user, and it’s a different mindset than the raw engineering perspective of “I’m gonna build a piece of great software. It’s gonna be very fast, very efficient… Very something - very configurable, very programmable. It’s gonna be the Swiss army knife.” And as it turns out, there’s a time for the Swiss army knife and there’s a time for just a bottle opener. Sometimes all you need is a bottle opener.