Drone Recovery Flowers — This is my first blog post after putting down API Evangelist, and taking over a month off from technology. It is very overwhelming to reboot my storytelling in a world where I am not the...
How The Human Gets Lost In The API Shuffle — I find it is easy to lose our focus on humanity when when you work in technology. I’ve been working with databases for over 30 years, and it is easy for me to just see...
Voice Enablement At The Router Level Will Continue To Push Surveillance Into Our Lives — I was reading about the Netgear Orbi Voice, a router and smart speaker combo, and found myself thinking more about what the future will hold when it comes to surveillance using APIs. I predict we...
This Administration Has Revealed To Me Just How Dependent We Are On Storytelling — I’ve learned a lot about storytelling over the last eight years as the API Evangelist. While still more art than science, I have learned a lot about the types of stories I need to tell...
My World Changed Once I Realized The Scope Of Things In This Country — I am a white male autodidact with significant amount of ego and confidence. Coming out of Oregon in my early 20s, lightly educated, and confident as fuck, made me pretty invincible. I could accomplish anything....
Being So Anti-Government Just Makes You A Tool — Being anti-government is an easy bandwagon to jump on for many American citizens, no matter what end of the political spectrum you operate on. It is easy to hate on the government, and also very...
The Both Political Parties Are Corrupt Theater Performance I See On Facebook Around Elections — It is interesting to watch people perform the both sides (Republicans & Democrats) are corrupt act leading up to this mid term election. I think about how I used to perform this act, and thinking...
Leading This Country For Everyone Or Leading This Country For Yourself — One thing that troubles me about the current (maybe its always been) state of conservatism, is their self-centered nature. Leading this country only for their vision, and their way of life, and not at all...
Y'all Are About To Lose The Most Important Resource You Have In Ed-Tech — I fully get that I’m biased here, but I also have a unique view into the world of ed-tech. I’ve watched my partner in crime Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) dedicate herself to understanding the world of...
Storytelling And The Technological Nothing — I love thinking about the power of storytelling on the world around us. Stories are how our realities are constructed, managed, and if you are fortunate, evolved. Stories are how we craft the future, maintain...
Writing My Alternative Stories In A Fake News Landscape — I haven’t written much on my alternate reality blog since the 2016 election. It just seemed wrong to me to write fictional stories that might be seen as real in this dystopian landscape we find...
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