D2D Is Coming Out
Over the past year I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Adam Benayoun and the Binpress team. Their mission to clarify the meaning and value of “free and open source” resonates well with what we...
View ArticleDon’t let hate stop your thinking
I am a mass media hater as much as anyone. I hate how it manipulates people through fear and soundbites. I hate how it dumbs down issues requiring thought and analysis to the detriment of accuracy. I...
View ArticleWith Our Eyes Wide Open
In 2008, the U.S. economy tanked. The devastation revealed how little even the “experts” understood our increasingly complex financial system, which we gradually understood to also be gamed by the...
View ArticleWhat is Developer Evangelism?
“Developers hate being marketed or sold to” per the muse of common knowledge. It’s not surprising, then, that those charged with doing just that have a job title that explicitly omits any mention of...
View ArticleWhat is all the fuss?
It’s hard not to love Gilda Radner or SNL. And I’ll go one step further: for me, it’s impossible not to love Emily Litella. She never understood why people made such a fuss over things. In 2015, I...
View ArticleStill Weird, Still Awesome Austin
2015 marked my 4th year not-in-a-row at South by Southwest. My observations from last year still largely hold true, though this year some of the crowds seem to have staved off (Mykel, my Austinite...
View ArticleIch bin ein Berliner
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. I never met President Kennedy but it’s comforting to know we share this sentiment (though I might swap ‘men’ for ‘people’ but that’s the...
View ArticleEmbracing the Geekery
Honored as always to be invited to speak again at the awesome Forward conference, this time ’round I went with the allegedly elusive and ephemeral yet very important and real topic of Geek Culture....
View ArticleFalse Equivalence
The latest installment of inequity-induced outrage came across my feed today. And it reminded me of an important principle. False equivalence underpins my intense distaste for and impatience with...
View ArticleRetrospection on the Retrospective
A seemingly universal axiom for processes is that there is no universal process. They can vary as much as the people who practice them. Which is great when you remember that process exists to help...
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