Progress vs. Growth

Reilly shared this blog tag game and Dom tagged me so I’ll join in! 1. Why did you make this blog in the first place? My domain had sat stagnant as a hand-coded HTML site for many years as I had it in my head that I needed to design websites from scratch, and I […]

An oldie (2006) that I rediscovered as I’ve been cleaning out my music collection — this is the mellowest song on the album, Never Had a Chance is fun, I also liked the song Free.

Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day says content moderation died on January 6, 2021: [T]he Insurrection was the first time Americans could truly see the radicalizing effects of algorithmic platforms like Facebook and YouTube that other parts of the world, particularly the Global South, had dealt with for years. A moment of political violence Silicon...

Win of the week: adapted a post that’s been sitting on draft since last June into my entry for this month’s IndieWeb carnival 🦾 Looking forward to: walking with a friend I haven’t seen since summer next week Stuff I did: 5.75 hours consulting 5 hours writing 🦾🦾🦾 wrote several alternate blurbs to help me decide between […]

Add friction to the activities you’d like to change, and remove friction from the things you’d like to do more of. This is usually applied at a personal level, but we can think of it across communities, too: Where is there friction in our community that blocks people from participating in the ways we’d like? […]