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May 18
Life Rational

I deeply appreciated Wesley Hicks' plainly written contribution to The Listserve today. The Listserve is a list of ~20,000 people and someone gets picked to send a message each day. They are nearly always awful "life affirming" advice things.

Today's felt different, because it describes exactly how I feel about humans, and what my general priorities for the Universe are: "life rational". For now, that's us. I'd like to see as much of it as possible grow for as long as possible.

Read on…
May 12
Mr. Money Mustache
I'm being destroyed and rebuilt on the inside by Mr. Money Mustache. Not because I want to retire at 30, but because I have been, without a doubt, liv…
May 9
Phoenix Has Forced Me To Come To Terms With Myself
I recently got a chance to go speak to a group of Arizona law librarians about legal informatics! I do not think that …
Mar 4
Open Data Day DC, 2013
A couple Saturdays ago, I helped Josh Tauberer and a few others organize a hackathon for Open Data Day, here in DC. Open Data Day is an internatio…
Feb 10
Hard Work The World Over
All great things in this world require the support of those around you, and working at 3 in the morning.
Jan 25
Politics and Open Source
A friend of mine emailed me, asking about the publicly leaking battle between the Obama/DNC techies and the higher-ups over what to do with all …
Jan 14
Aaron Swartz
I don't know that I have it in me to offer something new and deep on the awful death of Aaron Swartz on Friday. Aaron was known for, among other things, dow…
Jan 9
Learning While The Stakes Are Low
I got into two small debates on Twitter over the last couple of days, and they were both so similar that they made me pause and think a…
Dec 24, 2012
isitchristmas.com 2012
isitchristmas.com continues to get an irrational amount of traffic, so I put an irrational amount of work into it this year. If you visit in Chro…
Nov 9, 2012
A Parallel 2012
Obama gave a wonderful speech thanking his young Chicago staff, and telling them how inspired they make him. It comes across as extremely sincere, more f…
Oct 26, 2012
Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files
127 of my files in Dropbox are now gone forever, due to a bug where files were "updated" to be 0 bytes, and Dropbox lost its …
Oct 16, 2012
The Right to Have Rights
If you have a PayPal account, you may have gotten an email from them - they've updated their terms of service to remove your right to participat…
Oct 1, 2012
Alley of Doom
I spent Saturday afternoon sweeping, pushing, filming, running, climbing, dancing, and unicycling through the Alley of Doom, created by Laurenellen McCan…
Sep 26, 2012
Three
Web-based 3D is getting very powerful, and very easy. Here is a pyramid, all JavaScript, no Flash.
Jul 6, 2012
Sunlight Vanguard
Recently, I created and launched a new website for the Sunlight Foundation called Scout. It's the product I'm the most proud of building in my 3 years …
May 27, 2012
XOXO, With Trepidation
I bought a ticket to XOXO, an "arts and technology festival" to celebrate "disruptive creativity". It's being organized by Andy Baio, someone I ad…
Feb 24, 2012
Time Hedge
I'm not sure what's wrong with me. It's been 5 weeks. But here are some things.
Jan 18, 2012
Google Builds an Email List Rather Than Fight PIPA
Visit Google today and you'll see they blacked out their logo, and added a link to their anti-SOPA/PIPA campaign. Cool…
Jan 12, 2012
Google, the Cornered Animal
Google's apparently itching to get sued. Yesterday, they announced that they're integrating Google+ into Google search results for everyone w…
Nov 5, 2011
Two Wholes of the Brain
An article on the decline in science majors in the New York Times yesterday paints a pretty gloomy picture of the state of undergraduate science …