By the numbers
He has been on Wear for this many years.
What is 10?
"Who's a good girl?!" (This is his dog's name)
What is Jodie?
Brett is this many steps away from Sundar in the reporting chain.
What is five?
Encounter an issue on your watch? Brett will be the first to tell you to do this.
What is filing a bug?
There are three 20 minute periods in this, Canada's national sport.
What is hockey?
Of the 359 people in cost center 7DR, this many have been at Google for longer than Brett.
What is zero?
Brett's two favourite pasttimes. They rhyme!
What is hiking and biking?
He became a Director in May of this year.
What are 2022?
This is a term for wasting time and energy on unimportant details instead of focusing on what's important. (Hint: part of this term is also one of Brett's favourite pasttimes.)
What is bikeshedding?
Google turned 20 in this year
What is 2018?
According to go/movestats, he has moved offices or desks this many times (everyone guess)
What is 33?
This is Brett's partner's name.
What is Ally or Alexandra?
This person has reported to Brett the longest.
Who is Jeff?
Brett is a fan of this type of a problem-solving approach which involves breaking down complex issues into their most fundamental parts, discarding assumptions, and then rebuilding solutions from the ground up based on those core truths.
What is first principles thinking?
This element has the atomic number 20.
What is calcium?
Of the 149 people at Google named Brett, this many have been at Google for longer than ours.
What is one?
Brett lives in the same block as this trendy grocery store (and ice cream shop).
What is Bi-Rite?
This is where Brett went to college.
What is the University of Virginia?
"If it's not part of the _____, we're not doing it."
What is the Plan of Record?
This ancient cizilization used a base-20 counting system.
What is the Mayan civilization?
When trying to find out just how many bugs Brett has filed, buganizer capped out and wouldn't let me search past this many, which only took me as far back as December 2023. (everybody guess)
What is 2500?
Brett is the oldest of this many siblings.
What is two?
Brett has had this many managers at Google, which is the same number of offices he's worked from. (everybody guess)
What is 13?
Rather than bite off more than you can chew and end up disappointing people, Brett would rather you do this.
What is under promise, over deliver?
One of the two Asian countries whose legal drinking age is 20.
What is Japan or Thailand?