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I love this aphorism about visionary leadership paraphrasing Saint-Exupéry: “Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giving a shared taste for the sea, by the light of …

Usually, when working with things that require configuration, such as databases, caches, and mailers, you have to define them in their respective configuration files beforehand. So, for instance, you need to define all the mailers …

In November of last year, I wrote Richard Stallman’s political discourse on sex, which argues that Richard Stallman, the founder of and present-day voting member of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation …

From: https://youtu.be/huEtJw7pfLk?si=2gHBKU32xylyZE5y I couldn’t not post this. The music! The DJ-ing using YouTube! The fact it’s been on the internet for thirteen years I’ve only just seen it! Via Kottke.•

Hello everyone! I apologize again for my lack of recent posts. I am still devoting most of my available writing time to working on my novel, which is slowly, but surely, progressing. I am no …

I’ve been writing about eyewear quite a bit this year. And as I mentioned recently, I’ve noticed that more men seem to be approaching spectacles as a collector’s item rather than a purely functional product. …

Typographic glyphs have their moments. The @ symbol was barely used before it became indispensable for email and social media. The creation of the single European currency saw thousands of fonts being reissued to include …

Spook Country by William Gibson, 2007 A '90s indie-music star enters the 21st century as a freelance journalist working on a piece about locative art, interviewing a Los Angeles artist who uses augmented reality to …

At 2:57pm this afternoon, I received the press release from North Texas stating that Eric Morris dismissed Matt Caponi. "I’m grateful to Coach Caponi for his commitment and contributions to our program and student-athletes over …

After reading the news, and having a good cry, I thought about how Internet friends can be some of the best friends ever.

I stumbled on a post on X this morning, a commentary on the photo of RFK eating food from McDonalds that has been making the rounds. This photo divides Puritans from Southerners. Puritans think because …

I wanted to share some notes on how I run remote retrospectives. These are not incident retrospectives, which I tend to run differently. But these are for project retrospectives, or for regular check-ins with a …

Oliver Burkeman, author of the self-help productivity philosophy book Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals, in his newsletter today: I don’t need these people’s psychodramas in my head anymore. The closest thing to a …

While reorganizing my art supply drawers recently I stumbled upon the small W&N Cotman palette I’ve used for a while last winter, and I realized I never wrote a blog post about how I perceive …

Most ontology developers know they’re supposed to write competency questions, be it manually, with the CLaRO tool [KeetEtAl19] or assisted by a language model [AlharbiEtAl24, AntiaKeet23, RebboudEtAl24]. Few enjoy the manual authoring task. Moreover: what …