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+title: What I'm up to these days
+author: Brett Langdon
+date: 2015-06-19
+template: article.jade
+---
+
+It has been awhile since I have written anything in my blog. Might as well get started
+somewhere, like a brief summary of what I have been working on lately.
+
+---
+
+It has been far too long since I last wrote in this blog. I always have these aspirations
+of writing all the time about all the things I am working on. The problem generally comes
+back to me not feeling confident enough to write about anything I am working on. "Oh, a
+post like that probably already exists", "There are smarter people than me out there
+writing about this, why bother". It is an unfortunate feeling to try and get over.
+
+So, here is where I am making an attempt. I will try to write more, it'll be healthy for
+me. I always hear of people setting reminders in their calendars to block off time to
+write blog posts, even if they end up only writing a few sentences, which seems like a
+great idea that I indent to try.
+
+Ok, enough with the "I haven't been feeling confident dribble", on to what I actually have
+been up to lately.
+
+Since my last post I have a new job. I am now Senior Software Engineer at
+[underdog.io](https://underdog.io/). We are a small early stage startup (4 employees, just
+over a year old) that is in the hiring space. For candidates our site basically acts like
+a common application to now over 150 venture backed startups in New York City or San
+Francisco. In the short time I have been working there, I am very impressed and glad that
+I took their offer. I work with some awesome and smart people and I am still learning a
+lot, whether it is about coding or just trying to run a business.
+
+I originally started to end this post by talking about a programming project I have been
+working on, but it ended up being 4 times longer than the text above and have decided
+instead to write a separate post about it. Apparently even though I have been writing
+lately, I have a lot to say.
+
+Thanks for bearing with this "I have to write something" post. I am not going to make a
+promise that I am going to write more, because it is something that could easily fall
+through, like it usually does... but I shall give it my all!