Brandon Kraft
Brandon Kraft
@kraft@kraft.blog

My life is an open-source book.

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Austin, TX

Education

B.A., Sociology with a minor in Science, Technology, and Society, 2010, The University of Texas at Austin

M.B.A., Business Analytics, 2024, Midwestern State University (TX)

  • 2017 Half-Marathon

    I ran in the 2017 Austin Half-Marathon last weekend. I hadn’t done a distance race since the 2015 Austin Half as the final race in the 2014-2015 Austin Distance Challenge’s Half-Marathon track. That year, I was training for a full marathon, but the twin’s early birth and NICU detoured me to the half track, which…

  • Reflecting Tower

    Photo taken at: UT Turtle Pond View in Instagram ⇒

  • Ya can’t swim here

    I feel like there is a solid current events metaphor here. Or five or fifty. Just going to let you, fine reader, pick your own. Photo taken at: TownLake YMCA View in Instagram ⇒

  • Mole Beer

    I’m stoked to pour this one, but going to wait until I can share it with some folks. I’ve yet to have anything from The Bruery that wasn’t great.

  • Food Allergies Aren’t From Bad Parenting

    Source: How I made sure all 12 of my kids could pay for college themselves This missive from the parents of 12 kids is, all in all, a very interesting roadmap for raising a family, but I reject one particular portion. We did not have snacks between meals. We always had the four food groups…

  • Back to Windows

    For nearly four years, I’ve used Macs and OS X professionally. Most of the company and the industry uses Mac and all seemed fine in the world. At Automattic, we update our hardware every 18 months, which I deferred for six months waiting for the new MacBook Pro update. I was underwhelmed by the updates.…