Erlend, a former early employee at Discourse, has announced his return as a Product Manager at 50% capacity, while also working as an indie game developer. He shared a brief introduction, including his past involvement with Discourse and a link to his professional bio on GitHub. The community has warmly welcomed him back, with ondrej, mstm, JimPas, RadBradHavoc, and Richie expressing their excitement and eagerness to see the improvements he will bring. Richie also asked Erlend about the reasons behind his comeback, inquiring if his paths have realigned.
To catch up on my professional story, I’ve written quite extensively about it on my GitHub profile.
Back in 50% time, 100% commitment
I am rejoining Discourse as a Product Manager. We’ll expand on what exactly my product focus will be in the next few weeks.
I’ll be at 50% capacity because the other half is already occupied by my life as an indie game developer.
While this means my attention will be divided, 90% of my time in game development is spent communicating with teams and communities. As a game developer I still find myself lacking the all-in-one comms tool that Discourse is on the verge of becoming. A huge part of my product vision will be informed by my own needs as an archetypical gamedev customer.
I’m so so so looking forward to talking a whole lot more about what I’ll be working on. See you all around!
That hair? Gone. Forget about it.
Now I wear at minimum two head garments to compensate (jk)
