Reverie

Reverie

Techno-Classicist

To Watch the Sunrise as a Sort of Cleansing

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E. Frances
Sep 28, 2025
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I entered the tech industry through a path that was far from traditional. I had no degree, no formal training, and no clear roadmap. I was a ballerina, I read poetry in coffee shops. I’d painted at home in oils since highschool. I was a self-taught coder, a home-made digital designer, with a natural fluency in systems thinking. I had helped, in minor ways, to develop the UX on software for

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