Music
Better by Jack Garratt
Jack Garratt's Better album is a charmingly vulnerable set of ruminations on anxiety, belonging, and state of the world.
Zak Greant
Wayback
Why resurrect old blog posts?
I forget much of what I don't reflect on. Reviving old blog posts and related content gives me a chance to both reflect and remember.
Book
52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life
"52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life" is a practical antidote to burnout for caregivers, activists, and helping professionals. (Book review)
Infocrisis
Dr. House will yield to Deep Mind
I chuckled at this line from Dr. Ran Balicer’s 2016 TEDxTelAviv talk, “Medicine Transformed: The Algorithm Will See You Now.” Dr. Balicer is among the speakers I’m eager to hear at HIMSS 2023—not just because of his groundbreaking work in data-driven preventive medicine addressing chronic kidney disease,
Infocrisis
Thoughts on the "Pause Giant AI Experiments" open letter
Hot takes on the "Pause Giant AI Experiments" open letter from the Future for Life Institute abound—but how many of us read the letter?
Presentations
When Your Happy Dreams Are About Dying
Are you burning out? Is someone you care about on the edge? Do you want to be more resilient to overwork, heart-breaking change, and creeping existential dread? Please watch this mix of practical advice, real-life stories, and hard-won wisdom collected from the FLOSS, startup, and non-profit worlds.
Wayback
I̶̶ ̶R̶o̶c̶k̶!̶ ̶Doc Rocks! :)
Notes on Doc Searl's ca. 2004 ruminations on how the software industry might develop.
Presentations
Go Open 2008 Keynote
"FLOSS: What & Why?" is a keynote that I wrote for the Go Open 2008 conference in Norway.
Wayback
PHP Vikinger Invitations Emailed
I just sent out the invitations for the PHP Vikinger event. My method for choosing who to invite was pretty simple - I chose people listed in the the PHP and PEAR credits who I had written personal email to in the last few years. Nepotistic? “Nay”, say I, “Nepotastic!
Wayback
Good Old Times
Andrei’s Good Old Times post got me curious enough to look up my first post that MARC archived for the PHP general list. The earliest post I spotted was this, but I am pretty sure I was asking stupid questions at least a few weeks before then.
Wayback
PHP Vikinger site online
After far too long, a quick-and-dirty site for the PHP Vikinger event is online. What are you waiting for? Go visit http://phpvikinger.org (and, yes, it will redirect to a Backpack URL - that is intentional :)
Wayback
GPLv3 Process Definition
The FSF just announced guidelines for reviewing version 3 of the GPL. To participate in the process, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org/. To learn more, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org/process-definition.