"The main one is that after IBM acquired Red Hat, and later when I moved to VMware/Broadcom, I didn't always feel comfortable posting on my personal blog or speaking as freely as I would have liked. I was also less involved with my open source projects and busy working on something new that I couldn't actively promote at the time. So, I decided to step away from blogging for a while; I just didn't know how long that would end up being."
"In my last three jobs, going back to 2010, I've worked remotely from home and only left the house for work when traveling to conferences or, on rare occasions, visiting the office. While I had the opportunity to travel for conferences during my time at New Relic and Red Hat, that changed when I moved to VMware. COVID disrupted everything, and travel was no longer possible."
"by keeping my head down and staying out of sight, I was able to spend quite a lot of time working on a project of my own where I was able to set direction and do what I thought was required. An ideal situation for remote work and it suited me well, even if the overall work environment wasn't the best at the time."
More than six years passed between blog posts. After IBM acquired Red Hat and later moves to VMware and Broadcom, posting publicly felt uncomfortable and involvement in open source decreased due to work on an unpromotable project. Redundancy from Broadcom about a year ago led to a sabbatical, described as
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