I’ve re-emerged from the desert, which was bliss. I am reincorporating back into the hive mind, which is bliss.
DMB Christmas
Heading to the Gorge Amphitheater for three nights and days partying with Dave Matthews Band. It feels like Christmas morning!
Concert Camping Devops
Sock it away
Beginning to realize happiness will last longer if I continue to work hard for more of it, instead of celebrating it and watching its foundations slip away while I relax. Like saving and investing instead of spending.
A Theory: Concisely articulated ideas tend to be true
The reason the recovery is so slow is most Americans no longer have the money to buy enough to create more jobs. It’s inequality, stupid.
— Robert Reich on Twitter
I RT’d that. It may be an oversimplification, but it aligns with my views. Plus, I have this theory. The theory goes like this:
It is difficult to state a falsehood concisely. Conversely, ideas stated concisely tend to be true.
This is because truths tend to be self evident in simple terms. When you boil an idea down to its simplest terms, it is often readily apparent whether it stands on its own (evidently true), or requires additional explanation or argument to defend (less evidently true).
The reason the recovery is so slow is most Americans no longer have the money to buy enough to create more jobs. It's inequality, stupid.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 30, 2012
WordPress TV
Watching a lot of TV lately. WordPress.tv, that is. #nyuknyuk
Turned out to be true
“Tell me, what was I like when I was young?”
[Ann] Bowers tried to give him an honest answer. “You were very impetuous and very difficult,” she replied. “But your vision was compelling. You told us, ‘The journey is the reward.’ That turned out to be true.
— From Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson, emphasis mine.
I’ve always considered “the journey is the reward” to be a meaningless platitude, but I suppose if it’s what an early colleague of Jobs most learned from him, there may be something to it…
“Christian Atheist”. Contradiction?
Lately I’m in this awkward position of reading a lot of atheist works to figure out if maybe I am one, and a lot of radical/progressive Christian literature to figure out what it means to identify as a follower of this Jesus guy.
Twig Envy
Designing/prototyping a rather complicated WordPress theme file structure; pining for a WordPress implementation of Twig, Symfony’s awesome templating engine.
Cheering on Gittip
Update: Gittip changed its name to Gratipay, and eventually shut down.
I believe Gittip, a sort of “Kickstarter for people making the world better”, is a noble and worthy cultural experiment to sustain open source. It’s far outside of the box. I hope it succeeds.