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Golda Velez

We the Impatient

We the Impatient

Writers that influenced us in times past, writers like Madison, Lincoln, or Woolf, show an endearing faith in the readers patience for the nuanced unfurling of arguments and ideas. We used to be more patient. Now? The clawing uncertainty, how could any thread emerging quietly from my mind alone be

Have Title, Will Travel

Some are stray thoughts only, others in draft; some I've asked a friend to co-author and almost any would be open to co-authoring with aligned folx - "Nation-states: The Sinking Ship of Leaky Abstractions" "Money is Broken. Money can be Re-Made" (a concrete idea

The Shapes of Spaces

butterfly on a small white spray of flowers

Winter is a shape. Cold, indoors, reflective, reconnecting, home - perhaps. Spaces in the physical or virtual world, in communities or in time, have character we can intuitively recognize. Stages of life are spaces in our timelines. A caterpillar eats nutritious food rapidly, growing fat without changing. It transforms in

Center Us

It is natural to center fear. Outrage algorithms do not even need to be intentional - "Popular with Friends", if you have my friends, is quite naturally full of mocking rage, some of which I find highly entertaining. If villians make good stories, we have a wealth of

So, What To Do?

Isn't this always the question, really the only question: Given my values and the state of the world as I see it, what do I do next? So yes, I have all these ideas for a Better World™ Ambitous ones, like a template for small-d democracy with earned

Ghostly Bridges

RALLY Rush-hour Resistance Rally @ the Melrose Curve in Phoenix Big events with thousands of people are great. But we also need local, more frequent rallies that show locals that they're not alone in this fight. **Since I live in the neighborhood, I thought having one on the Melrose

How to Jump on a Moving Project

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

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