Found in an email I sent a few years ago: "I'm freaking 30 now, so I have decided to be Mature, stop feeling bad that I don't learn stuff well on my own, and take …
What are you making? And what are you metamaking? That is, what are you doing to, directly or indirectly, help other people create good things? I keep thinking about Growstuff, my friend Alex "Skud" Bayley's …
I read Malcolm X's autobiography at about twelve and Lee Iacocca's autobiography at around eight. (You know how it is with childhood; you read what's around you.) This past weekend I dipped back into the …
Data & Society (which I persist in thinking of as "that New York City think tank that danah boyd is in" in case you want a glimpse of the social graph inside my head) has …
Back when I worked at the Wikimedia Foundation, I used the Ada Initiative's anti-harassment policy as a template and turned it into the Friendly Space Policy covering tech events run by WMF. I offer you …
Here are some things I recently learned or re-learned about setting up your own website. Domain names There are a ton of domain name registrars out there and a lot of them are subsidiaries of …
Ada Initiative's interview with Kronda Adair reminded me: I meet lots of people at conferences, and then have a hard time recollecting nearly all their names and faces, even if we've had long, interesting conversations. …
As we passed a closed-up storefront, Leonard informed me of the type of restaurant it's turning into, and I allowed as to how that was fine, but I'd rather one of the transforming storefronts in …
A few things I do. Never put anything in a seat-back pocket unless you're willing to walk away from it. For me, this means magazines, snacks, and miscellaneous rubbish go in the seat-back pocket on …
Ramble ramble ramble, in rather an autumnal tradition. Leonard and I bought a new wall clock Saturday. The thing about living in a super walkable but not absolutely gentrified neighborhood (that is to say, our …