Reflections

A brief meditation on why you should write yourself into obsolescence and also what kind of writing matters most when documenting yourself and your responsibilities.

In 2021, CHAOSS initiated a review of its diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. This post summarizes progress made by the team in 2022.

How do we understand sustainability when we talk about open source investments? Here are four CHAOSS metrics to help you measure it.

There are moments I reflect back on my life when I met someone who interacted with me in an impressive way. Though unknown to me then, I feel now that they perceived my authentic, true self when I was still searching.

This is a story about how I learned to say "no", when the pressure to say "yes" was so great. Learning how to say no became my new superpower.

Nostalgia is cyclical at times. Nostalgia keeps us in the past but sticks with us in the present, much like blogging and blogs in the 2020s.

What if dependencies took a human-centered, or community-centered, approach? We describe dependencies in machine terms, but we miss something.

Language is powerful. Words are subtle building blocks to how we imagine the world around us. So, with the goal of pursuing more equitable language, I propose the end of accommodations.

Recently a Spotify playlist curated into my feed. The playlist was a perfect match for my soul when I needed it most. This led me to wonder, who or what curated this playlist? What caused it to appear in my feed that day?

This first appeared on the Open Source Initiative Wiki. In light of the election update this year, I am republishing my statement of intent on my personal blog. No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. Mahatma Gandhi I believe in the value of upholding the Open Source