If you read my previous post about my 9 years at Google, I am sorry if I left you with a feeling of doom and gloom. The truth is, my time at Google was also full of learning, growing, and developing. Summarizing the experience, the rather cliche “9 lessons in 9 years” came up as an obvious topic, so here we are. My hope is that I will provide a different and deeper perspective than others offer. My original aspiration was to fit all 9 lessons into a single post, but as I started writing the piece, it became obvious that it would wind up being way too long. I decided to break it up into nine smaller, digestible posts.