- Middle Path.
The answer to solve my dilemma of two split paths was to find the middle path. Those two separate paths were my personal life and my career.
- Write Yourself Into Obsolescence.
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.
- CHAOSS DEI Review: Midyear Reflection
In 2021, CHAOSS initiated a review of its diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. This post summarizes progress made by the team in 2022.
- 4 Metrics to Measure Sustainable Open Source Investments.
How do we understand sustainability when we talk about open source investments? Here are four CHAOSS metrics to help you measure it.
- Better Than I Knew Myself.
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.
- Saying No.
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.
- Cyclical Nostalgia.
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 Open Source Dependencies Weren't Software?
What if dependencies took a human-centered, or community-centered, approach? We describe dependencies in machine terms, but we miss something.
- A Proposal for the End of Accommodations
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.
- Computer Human.
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?