Every year the Yuletide fanfic exchange delivers a bounty of fun and goodness, and enables me to refuel my participation in fandom. (Last night at the Hacker School holiday potluck (I brought beet juice), I …
After we watched The Ref and ate our Thai takeout, I web-sought a fire log video and started playing it. "It's amazing that people make these," I said. Beat. "I am sort of waiting for …
I've known Brendan for more than a decade. Today I went back and read a bunch of his old blog posts. I clicked back and back and back, through jobs, girlfriends, cities, games, stories. He …
So let's assume you want to improve a particular community, and you've already read my earlier pieces, which I am now declaring prerequisites: "Why You Have To Fix Governance To Improve Hospitality", "Hospitality, Jerks, and …
Fundamentally, if you want to make a community hospitable,* you need to work not just on individual rules of conduct, but on governance. This is because the particular people implementing rules of conduct will use …
I'm donating up to $15,000 to the Stumptown Syndicate -- depending on how much you are willing to match by December 29th Updated: 31st at 1:30pm Pacific Time. Please join me by donating today and …
Many of these came to my attention thanks to singlecrow's link to a rec post; thanks! "Level Up", a Buffy vid by such_heights. A great match of song and topic, with an inspiring focus on …
Last week I got back from AdaCamp Bangalore, some family visits, the community-builders' meeting within Mozilla's workweek, and some volunteering with Stumptown Syndicate to support Open Source Bridge 2015. I set off on those travels …
Serious: Mehreen Kasana, Pakistani woman, on the Peshawar tragedy. Some ways cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation help in self-care. "The Obligation to Know: From FAQ to Feminism 101", an interesting paper on norms around self-teaching …
I'm interested in piloting a peer code review group, structured like a writer's group. So next month I'm starting one out in New York City, starting with Hacker School alumni and participants, and I figured …
