Camille E. Acey

culture

  • Making Them Pay: Tales from the Immutable Stack

    camilleacey

    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…

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  • Rewrite the Docs

    camilleacey

    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…

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  • Gratitude: April 2018

    camilleacey

    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…

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  • Welcoming Startup Meeting Spaces and How to Create Them

    camilleacey

    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…

  • Gratitude February 2018

    camilleacey

    A few things I have been grateful for as I get into this month. For some reason, I missed it when Beck dropped his latest album Colors in October of last year. I am glad I stumbled upon it recently. It is JAMMIN! #Rojava playlist. In northern Syria, women are leading (and literally fighting for!)…

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  • “There is just one here.” The RuPaul & Oprah Winfrey 👑 SuperSoul Conversation

    camilleacey

    https://youtu.be/nvfsOffJo-Y I am living for this! RuPaul is such a guiding light in my life. If you don’t listen to his podcast, What’s The Tee? already, girl you betta go get yo’ life!

  • Some Stuff I Would Do If I Didn’t Have to Work for a Living

    camilleacey

    Travel and spend time with my family (immediate travel list: Barcelona, Stockholm, Dakar, Sarajevo, Tokyo, Melbourne, and back to HK and Berlin) Sew Garden Spend more time in Slovenia Start an ice cream business in New Orleans (and find out how to make it not be work) Cook elaborate meals Learn to code Hardware hacking…

  • Fund What You Love

    camilleacey

    I’ll be honest: I don’t love my job and I don’t think I’ve ever truly loved any job I’ve ever had since I began my working life in earnest. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve had several lovely work environments in beautiful offices with truly fantastic co-workers — many of whom I still count as my…

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  • Gratitude: December 2017

    camilleacey

    A few things that have been making me happy recently. The Improbable Dome Builders In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the brilliant thinker and architect R. Buckminster Fuller fell in with a ragtag group of Puerto Rican teenagers on the Lower East Side that came to be known by the name of CHARAS (a…

  • Gratitude: September 2017

    camilleacey

    A few things I was grateful for this month: 1) Sydette Harry’s AffectConf Talk Finally! A talk at a tech conference by a black woman about *us* and how *we* survive and what *we* need. 2) Orphan Black I realized I was a season behind so I raced through season 4 and am just rounding…

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