For about 15 years, I’ve worked in tech, mostly in operations. Customer ops, incident management, escalations, trust and safety, programs, people, processes. If something was on fire, there’s a good chance I was holding the extinguisher, or at least the spreadsheet tracking where all the extinguishers were.

I’m also a mom of two. My kids are 11 years apart, so I’ve done the newborn years twice, in two very different seasons of life. I was raised in Arizona, and I live in Sydney now.

At some point I noticed something slightly ridiculous: the skills that keep an operations team running are the same skills that keep a family running.

• Priorities change without warning.
• Someone always needs something.
• Nothing goes exactly to plan.
• And snacks are a critical dependency.

So what is this?

Standups & Snacktime is tech ops without the LinkedIn voice, systems for messy problems, and mom life without pretending I’ve mastered it. Plus a little bit of everything in between.

I’m not here to tell you I’ve figured it out. But I’ve spent my career making chaos a little more organized, and some of what I’ve learned might help you too. So pull up a chair and grab a snack. Standup starts now.