Jeff Beatty
JEFF BEATTY is executive director of product localization at The Walt Disney Company and an avid fiction reader. He enjoys reading everything from magical realism to sci-fi and thrillers.
Babel Or the Necessity of Violence
Many of my colleagues in the localization industry tell me they struggle to get into fiction. I’ve felt the same way. In 2022, I embarked on a fiction-reading journey, conditioning myself to read more fiction. At the time, I focused mainly on thrillers and classic sci-fi novels — and now, I’m hooked! Reading fiction has helped me to enhance my creativity and ability to think outside of my own biases, by suspending my disbelief and thinking more abstractly.
Fluent: Firefox’s new localization system
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Fluent: Firefox’s new localization system
Jeff Beatty
Jeff Beatty is the head of localization at Mozilla, the makers of the popular open source web browser Firefox....