Camille E. Acey

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My occasional musings….

  • Gratitude: End of Summer 2018 Edition

    The kid is back in school (yes!!) and summer is just about to close the door, so I’m just dropping in with a little gratitude before the fall. 1) Terence Nance’s Random Acts of Flyness on HBO is SO BLACK and gorgeous and genius and one of the best things I’ve ever seen anywhere ever. Read more

  • Gratitude: June 2018

    Before the month ends I just want to take a moment to share a few things that breathed la vie into me this month 1) POSE on FX / Nick Cave at Park Avenue Armory These two are bringing queer black culture to masses in a major way and I am here for it. POSE Read more

  • Making Them Pay: Tales from the Immutable Stack

    This is pretty much the entire text from the talk I delivered at Paymentsfn 2018 on May 24, 2018 in Durham, North Carolina. In his story The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, Edgar Allan Poe wrote “Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises Read more

  • Rewrite the Docs

    Thanks to everyone who watched my talk at Write the Docs Portland 2018. The blogpost that it is based on is here and below are some links to the organizations I mentioned. The ones that accept donations are indicated with a $ sign: The Collective for Liberation Ecology and Technology The National Council for Incarcerated Read more

  • Gratitude: April 2018

    You know the drill. Before the month is out, I just want to take a moment to give thanks for a few things that have been giving me (sorely-needed) life this month. 1) Drake’s “Nice for What?” I’ve been having a tough month and this song and video came right on time. As the saying Read more

  • Welcoming Startup Meeting Spaces and How to Create Them

    Over the past few years, I’ve played host or guest in startup offices here in New York City surely a hundred times or more. In that time I’ve begun to notice some bothersome patterns that I thought I’d share with you along with suggestions of best practices in startup office meeting space design. The lights Read more