Reposting a letter sent to one of my Internet Heroes, whom I occasionally correspond with. He is my Hero not because of his brilliant, thoughtful blog on quantum computing (though I do enjoy that),…

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See Also The Data Config by Benn Stancil (Medium) (App)PipeBook: UX Design Brief (Blog) (Framework)Data on Rails: Solving the Data App Imperative (YouTube) Overview The modern data notebook has its…

As an addendum to Today We Choose Faces (a podcast with my father about alternative reality novels), I share the journey that led me to founding this site.

The first stage in our process is working with your team to understand and articulate the “soul” of your startup — the emotional energy that enables you to persevere when times ge…

My own personal encounter with the Oracle of Delphi (fictionalized). The sequel to Socrates Repents (An Alternative “Apology”). Suddenly seized with certainty, he claps his hands and jumps for joy.…

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In my opinion, BitC is the most innovative take on systems programming we’ve seen since the invention of C.  While sad that it failed, I am deeply impressed by the thoughtful post-mortem…

Molly had been sorely tempted to play it safe. Tell the Elders a story that would inspire them to keep her there. Play on their sympathy. Misrepresent what she was capable of. She tried to make her…

To move forward Together We must internalize And reconcile The excluded pain That enabled us To become Us By creating Them

Work is creating something of value That others recognize. Making a dent in the world Or better, fixing one. With enough accountability Or structure That I cannot hide.

Pitch 2 for Coalesce 2022 (unsubmitted)

In this provocative talk Dr. Ernest N. Prabhakar, former Open Source Product Manager at Apple, argues that is time for our industry to reorganize around “decisions” rather than “d…

[Not Boring Research Analyst Application] I believe: The Human Colossus is about to undergo a phase transition (“from rational to relational”) analogous to the one where Gutenberg, Luth…

[These are my initial musings. It may take weeks or months to turn these into a coherent analysis, so I figured I should publish them as-is to get them out into the world. Merry Christmas!] Challen…