Dan Goetz VOL. 2026 · №156 · JUN 5, 2026

ABOUT THE EDITOR / EST. 2023

About.

A field guide to the person behind the Dispatch.

Portrait of Dan Goetz
QUICK FACTS
DAY JOB SE Leader
FAMILY Married to my lovely wife and two beautiful children
NEXT RACE Old Port Half Marathon
CURRENTLY READING Heaven’s River — Dennis E. Taylor
EDITOR VS Code · Obsidian
"I'm a Sales Engineering leader by day, a runner before sunrise, and a dad in the time between."

I've spent more than two decades in technical roles, the last several leading Solutions Engineering teams. I write about the craft of leadership the way I think about it on long runs — slowly, and with more questions than answers.

The Dispatch started as a Sunday-morning habit and quietly became the way I think out loud. The site itself runs on a 3-node K3s cluster in my basement, because that turns out to be the most fun way to learn the thing I'm leading by day.

If you want to talk back, the email link works and I read everything.

COLOPHON
HEADLINESPlayfair Display
BODYSource Serif 4
UIInter · ui-monospace
STACKNode · Express · EJS · Postgres
HOSTING3-node K3s · Cloudflare Tunnel
EDITORVS Code · Obsidian