Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
For the few people who don’t know already (it’s amazing how fast news spread in human communities!), yesterday I left my company of six years. You may remember how some time ago I was musing on the benefits of going to work each day if it were your last day. I was wrong. Do...
I resigned from my job today. It took a long time, but what did it was the sense of being trapped, like in a dream where I am moving through a high viscosity fluid and each movement forward is too many times harder than it should be. At work, success meant being able to...
The latest Philly Future featured blog is Fact-esque (the name comes from Stephen Colbert’s quote: “It’s been widely reported and that makes it fact-esque.”) Fact-esque is political, progressive, and anti-torture: who can ask for anything more? Technorati Tags: phillyfeaturedblog...
Paradise, Pennsylvania, saw the nation’s third deadly school shooting in a week and the second that targeted female students. A 32-year-old man who was “acting out to achieve revenge for something that happened 20 years ago,” let the boys leave, tied the girls, all between 6 and 13 years old, and then shot them...
I’m back from New York City where I attended BarCampNYC2, the unconference where everybody is invited, everybody presents, nobody wears shoes, the rules change at least twice a day, people understand what you do for a living, and you get to spend the night in a Microsoft conference room. Barcamp is highly equalitarian: not...
I’ve tried to write a post on 9/11 for the past two days and I couldn’t. Today, I kept CNN’s replay of the September 11, 2001 broadcast on the entire day. I thought that the emotional grip of these images would be lighter after five years. I was wrong. On September 11, 2001 it...