Our powerful collective fictions
In his fascinating book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (my short review) one of the ideas Yuval Harari presents is that large human societies …
Now and a couple of stories
The past is not a thing – it is a story about how we got to now. The future is also not a thing – …
Is metaphysics useful for anything?
It seems to me that modern, practical, in-use-by-real-people metaphysics is basically some ratio of what science tells us is factual plus whatever brand of supernatural …
The value proposition for One Backlog to rule them all.
Backlog – an accumulation of something, especially uncompleted work or matters that need to be dealt with. The Assertions: For a software development team (“tech …
Getting Software From Dev-Box To Production
Oodles has been written about how to release software over the ages. I will now add to that number. No need for alarm – I’m …
Amatuer Philosophy
In my head, saying I’m into philosophy is a bit analogous to saying I’m an amateur medical doctor. If I told someone I was an …
A Different Kind of Calculator
I got fired up about personal finance in the summer of 2016. In particular, planning for retirement. I’d tried to do planning that worked for …
Projects
Thinking about the projects I’ve worked on over the years, I realized I didn’t have ready access in memory to anything but a thumbnail sketch …
