Category: tech

• 27 February 2023

  Gratitude February 2023

  South Africa Owing to my humble service on the Whose Knowledge? board, I was graciously invited by the team to join them on their annual retreat in KwaZuluNatal, South Africa. It was a beautiful 10 days and I certainly hope it will not be my last time in South Africa. I have so much more…
• 22 February 2023

  The Three Ds of Product Drops

  Ask any CS leader or practitioner in software about releases and you will probably get an eye roll or a groan. The history of software development is littered with new feature and products that launched at random times without supporting teams being enabled…or even informed ! In order to drive more alignment with Product a…
• 29 January 2022

  Building Laterally: Visions of Mutual Power

  On 19 January 2022, I joined Njera Keith of 400 + 1 and Liz Barry of Public Lab in conversation with Rayya El Zein of the Digital Infrastructure Incubator of Code for Science & Society in “Visions of Mutual Power”, a wide-ranging and illuminating conversation about radical visions for building and holding power.
• 17 September 2020

  My 3 Favorite Tools (Right Now) for Working With My Geographically-Distributed Team

  I recently started a new job where I am working from home with a team spread across Europe and the US. Some of the team is working from home because they always do, others are working from home due to the pandemic, but yet others are actually working as per normal from our company’s headquarters.…
• 25 April 2020

  Kollaps und Mutualism

  Since the lockdown/”PAUSE” order was issued here in so-called New York nearly a month ago, a group of friends and I have come together to discuss the current collapse/failure of the state and what we radicals might make in and of it. For our first session, we discussed technologist Vinay Gupta‘s concept of resilience maps…
• 14 October 2019

  Rewrite The Docs at ATO 2019

  If you’re here because you saw my talk at All Things Open 2019, thank you!! If you are here just because, thank you too! 🙂 The original blogpost that my talk was based on is here and below are links to some of the organizations I mentioned. The ones that accept donations are indicated with…
• 24 August 2019

  Gratitude: August 2019

  Before the month is out, I just want to share a few things that gave me life as of late. The Last Black Man In San Francisco This movie was stunningly beautiful. When I saw the trailer I thought it was going to be sort of the same thing as Barry Jenkins’ Medicine for Melancholy…
• 8 August 2019

  A Few Things to Consider Before Becoming A Remote-Friendly Company

  A few years ago when I was at Clubhouse I blogged about our process of becoming a geographically distributed team. In that case, the first stumblings towards global domination were not made to acquire talent but rather in an attempt to retain talent vital to our team (talent = people we really loved working with…
• 3 June 2019

  My DEI Sniff Test

  I recently started a fantastic and challenging new job, but before I got here I spent 6 long months carefully job hunting. At this point in my career, I have afforded myself the right to be a lot more picky about where and with whom I work since I spend more waking hours with coworkers…
• 31 May 2019

  Gratitude: May 2019

  Before the month ends, I am just sliding in here to share a few things that gave me life this month. Cillian Murphy’s Playlist on BBCRadio 6 Music I completely live for Cillian Murphy. For the past few months, he has been covering for Guy Garvey (of Elbow) on BBC Radio 6 Music. I like…