The polyglot who leads Stack Overflow's Platform team

<p>Rennie grew up in Kenya, Honduras, Somalia, and Oklahoma; his parents volunteered for the <a href="https://www.peacecorps.gov/">Peace Corps</a> before working for the US Government overseas. </p><p>Audio tape drives are real!  Check out <a href="https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/8826/how-did-the-c64-interface-tape-drives">this Retrocomputing question</a> about how the Commodore 64 audio interface worked. </p><p>If you  want  to remember something better, <a href="https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/were-only-human/ink-on-paper-some-notes-on-note-taking.html">a 2014 study</a> says you should write it out by hand. </p><p>Rennie worked at Blackberry, and Ben remembered his colleagues at the Verge fondly hoping for their comeback. In fact, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/23/4762924/prem-watsa-blackberry-buyout-private-fairfax-financial">here's Ben hoping for their comeback</a>!</p><p>We did a <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/09/17/podcast-376-writing-the-roadmap-from-engineer-to-manager/">podcast on moving from engineer to manager</a>, which Rennie said was one of the hardest things to do. </p><p>Rennie gave a shoutout to the book he's reading now, <a href="https://lethain.com/elegant-puzzle/"><i>The Elegant Puzzle</i></a> by Will Larson. </p><p>Rennie works on our Platform team, which works on all of our reusable stuff, including <a href="https://stackoverflow.design/">our design system, Stacks</a>. </p><p>This week's Lifeboat badge goes to Vinzzz for explaining how to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28140145/create-an-array-of-random-numbers-in-swift">Create an array of random numbers in Swift</a>.</p>