Least we forget ourselves
I remember an indomitable spirit when I was 8 and prancing around in the forest or at a campground somewhere. Something that would overtake me, and that gave everything a smell and taste and feel of...
View ArticlePlato and the Calculus of a Dimension Shift
I don't know about you, but when I read Plato in High School and then again in College/s, I had to wonder a little about what they were pumping into the campus water that made this guy so friggen...
View ArticleFinancial Derivatives 101
I'm no 'HooHa' but let's say that I'm also no Banker Extrordinaire. I got no MBA. I'm no resident expert on the financial systems of the world. I try to stomach through a medicinal dose of conspiracy...
View ArticleWhat does the Flux Capacitor in our bodies look like? An open letter to...
First off, I want to give you gratitude. Thank you for inspiring me. Thank you for shifting all sorts of paradigms in your work and life and insisting on doing it in a big way. Thank you for insisting...
View ArticleBLUR: a new paradigm for engagement
I am looking for a great project. My engagement with the projects I have been focusing on has organically either hit a maintenance phase or has been completed, and I am finding myself, as many...
View ArticleHow to hire a Developer: a guide for those who have been burned.
So you've been burned by a technology professional, and you're worried about jumping back in. This is for you. You are my clients. I come in after the storm and clean up, or help you understand how to...
View ArticleThe Witches Slippers: the Ruby and the Laser.
First off, we start with a Ruby. It's the start of all good stories, really. Imagine it beautiful and regally suspended, and wrap it in material that reflects perfectly the light, and give it a shape...
View ArticleWe are dreaming ourselves into existence.
Verse 1:We are dreaming ourselves into existence. In a process many of us mistake for complaining, we are dreaming the next thing. You are doing it every day. You were probably doing it before you...
View ArticleAgile, the Philosopher's Stone, and the sound of one hand clapping.
Say the word 'Agile' or 'SCRUM' in certain circles, and the air can develop a kind of jello-like quality, the even gate of time is seen to tick-tock ever so slightly slower, the lights flicker, eyes...
View ArticleThe Looking Glass, and the possible nature of the Snowden revelations
The quality of some of my time these days seems punctuated strongly by the literal sense of other cities, other times, other frames of reference. We come into this life and we start growing. I am a...
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