bolla.online

You have a personal brand whether you like it or not.

Google your name right now. What shows up? Old forum posts? A LinkedIn you forgot to update? Someone else with your name? That’s your online brand. I’d rather you find this: [[bolla.online]] – me in bits and bytes, stored in a static webpage generated by GoHugoIO. (Shoutout to them anyway.)

I started as a tester and realized something else was broken, not just the software I was testing. People told me it was nice that I wanted to change the world, but that wasn’t part of the deal. Except I think it is - [[always]].

I see, I suggest, I fix, I drink coffee.

Testing doesn’t directly impact quality, but testers influence which direction stakeholders choose. So I examine the whole picture – from boardroom to the person actually using the product – trying to figure out what needs to change. If you care about that too, read how [[David Talks Quality Again]] (it is my newsletter). It’s worth your time and that’s a promise. Different perspective, not a textbook."

Then there’s my [[mindlog]]. Random thoughts I think are worth writing down. Sometimes five posts in a day, sometimes silence for a month. No editorial calendar, no algorithm ownership. Maybe a pattern will emerge. Maybe not. It’s just there.

I also take photos. For years I didn’t publish anything because I thought photography required preparation, editing, mastery. Then I bought a Fujifilm before it was trendy, learned about capturing everyday life, and something clicked: I don’t need technically flawless images. I need moments. So that’s what I’m putting out now in my [[photography]] section.

If you need the corporate version of me, you can read it on my [[professional background]] site.

Fair warning, tho.

This site isn’t polished. I used to curate everything – scrub my profiles clean, make sure there were no mistakes. Then I stopped because chasing perfection meant I published nothing. Life’s messy. I’m messy. So this webpage is messy too.

If that bothers you, you won’t enjoy what’s here. This isn’t another pitch-perfect e-book you’ll download and never open. It’s me – someone full of mistakes who’s happy to talk about them, learn from them, argue about them.

I’m not the elder with all the answers. I’m not twenty and convinced I have them either. I’m somewhere in between, learning daily.

Welcome.

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