Victoria’s year-end book
Same chipped mug since 2021. Do not touch the mug.
She taught me to read a flame graph, and then to stop being scared of them.
We shipped Lisbon on a Friday, which everyone said not to do. Victoria stayed on the call until the last store came online. Best demo of the year. Not close. The rollout plan had eleven steps, and by midnight we had rewritten nine of them. She kept a running list in the channel so nobody had to ask what had changed, and every time something broke she wrote down what we had learned before she wrote down what to do next. The rollout plan had eleven steps, and by midnight we had rewritten nine of them. She kept a running list in the channel so nobody had to ask what had changed, and every time something broke she wrote down what we had learned before she wrote down what to do next. The rollout plan had eleven steps, and by midnight we had rewritten nine of them. She kept a running list in the channel so nobody had to ask what had changed, and every time something broke she wrote down what we had learned before she wrote down what to do next. The rollout plan had eleven steps, and by midnight we had rewritten nine of them. She kept a running list in the channel so nobody had to ask what had changed, and every time something broke she wrote down what we had learned before she wrote down what to do next. The rollout plan had eleven steps, and by midnight we had rewritten nine of them. She kept a running list in the channel so nobody had to ask what had changed, and every time something broke she wrote down what we had learned before she wrote down what to do next.
At four o'clock she walked in with a lopsided lemon cake. Nobody had planned anything for the platform's birthday.
The office dog only sits under one desk, and it's hers.







2026