Tiffany Fehr's profile answers

San Francisco/Silicon Valley. It's the nexus of the best and brightest in the Internet, and is competitive, ambitious and inspirational all at once.

A team and organization that understands and supports the fact that the best tech workers eat, sleep and breathe their geek interests, and bring all of it to bear at work. A good company hires those people, and gives them some latitude to participate in their geek communities on the clock.

I love what I do, and it's both my career and my hobby. When the work day is done, my ongoing reading and research about the internet, web design, web development and an endless list of associated interests goes home with me, and I keep working on it there. My corporate work makes use of the the best-practices I learn and develop on my own projects, and I make sure I know how and why those solutions work for the web....

I do far too many sports and activities to list without scaring myself and others. I stay just to the sane side of busy and over-involved.

A team and organization that understands and supports the fact that the best tech workers eat, sleep and breathe their geek interests, and bring all of it to bear at work. A good company hires those people, and gives them some latitude to participate in their geek communities on the clock.

You have to keep up-to-date and aware of the job market, your peers and their payscales, and your positioning and credability in your industry even during a good job. The benefits of having your network and strategy ready to go the moment you leave a job are immense. Do the due diligence of passively job hunting and prepping at all times, no matter how loyal you are to your current job. It keeps you actively managing your career, and ready for any unfortunate or fortunate twists of fate....

I resolve to refrain from watching any countdown shows (3rd year in a row!) and continue improving my regex and back-end programming skill set. Also, I will wrap my noggin around search analytics and 'what they can do for [me]'.

Maths. I wish math ill.

Actually, my ongoing tough problem is how to best represent my skillset and abilities to people with wildly different notions of what it is I do.

1. Killer markup.
2. Elegant CSS.
3. Clear, thoughtful, consistent site organization

Patagonia. The more I learn about the company, the more I adore it -- environmental stances, life-work balance stances, lots of humanistic touches. I'm already a big fan of the gear, too.