Ghostly Bridges
excited about the FeedBridge that Civ.works is working on with LinkedTrust working on this with George Polisner at https://civicsky.io/
More issues
How to Jump on a Moving Project
How To Jump On A Moving Project
or, act like a senior developer in nine easy steps
Somewhere along the way, I seem to have become a senior developer. I'm not much faster at coding than I used to be, and I definitely have forgotten more language-specific syntax
Beware the Narrative
"Don't get sucked into the Narrative" is the tagline of Redshirts, John Scalzi's novel named for the Star Trek side characters, identifiable by shirt color and doomed to die for the sake of drama, sacrificed to the storyline.
As someone who grew up hearing
Open to (or: sticky ends)
DNA fragments may have single-stranded bits at the end, hungry to pair and bond with any complementary strands they encounter.
These ideas are sticky in that sense, for me - despite my overcommitted state, I would eagerly connect over them, and find some way to align efforts:
* small-d democracy in
agreements (and attention)
agreements create the structure that makes us more than slime molds
agreements with ourselves, what we call integrity, keeping one's word, character
they allow us to plan ahead, and follow through; make a promise, and mean it
but too many agreements can tie a life into knots that
Wanderings along the way...
starting some daily journal entries - these will mainly not show up on the front page, but still saved and findable. I want to pin and record more things. Today, Vancouver, taking the long way around to the AAAI conference...glad i did.
Seen and heard on the way
a
How to Bell the AI Cat
published at https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/26/how-to-bell-the-ai-cat/
A Logical Conclusion...
this piece makes me happy every time i reread it. it was born out of frustration with fintech bros
A Darwinian Argument
“You must die.” The woman spoke dispassionately, her face blank.
The jowly man chained at the ankle squinted across the room at her. His glasses had broken in
floating snips
if writing is the search for shape and meaning in life
is must be a selective one
the truth is full of distraction and laziness, napping in the face of urgency
forgetting oneself and remembering again and hiding from that truth
accepting maybe but celebrating nonsense? what is self anyway
public pieces published at...
So my writings here are sort of musings, on the personal side as opposed to the what-the-hell-is-going-on-in-the-world side. I also write as gvelez on medium; as wordmonkey on dailyKos; occasionally on Blog for Arizona & Hacker Noon; and once on impakter, LA Progressive and TechDirt should you wish to subject