If you restrict your team from taking most/all of their vacation in a block, then you are discriminating against team members who travel far to visit family. Instead, setup resilient frameworks around backup and support.
If you restrict your team from taking most/all of their vacation in a block, then you are discriminating against team members who travel far to visit family. Instead, setup resilient frameworks around backup and support.
Project Alias is a 3D-printed safety feature to add to your home “digital assistant”, inspired by Cordyceps!
Interesting technique to facilitate two people making an honest decision about an activity
RPG talk: one Burning Wheel character suffered a Mortal Wound due to a bandit arrow. Faithful character used double-Deeds roll to successfully pray for a Miracle and save the dying one. Epic! 🔥☸️
TWSBI Go is great. Overtaken Lamy Safari as top-value fountain pen 🖋
Indy Eleven offers to buy Broad Ripple High to build stadium.
Travelers is the best show.
Winner of “Best Headline” for the Angela Davis story that is ongoing
Never, ever give up. Don’t give up. Don’t allow it to happen. If there’s a concrete wall in front of you, go through it, go over it, go around it. But get to the other side of that wall.
Neil Gaiman Reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s Ode to Timelessness to His 100-Year-Old Cousin
Added five seconds to my dead hang since Tuesday. 😲
The internet has gotten so mean
Hey Emily P. Freeman, the next right thing for you to do would to honor my unsubscribe requests and stop sending me emails. Third attempt: hope this one works!
Last chance to register for my talk re: Agile Security and DevSecOps
Reminder: don’t eat at Patachou restaurants. First, we had the frivolous lawsuit against Crust, now we have this Grade A bullshit from Patachou.
“For, look, darkness covers the earth
and deep darkness covers the nations,
but the Lord shines on you;
his splendor appears over you.”
The twelve days of Christmas have concluded, and we are now in Epiphany. This is when Christians celebrate the arrival of the Magi who came to witness the newborn Jesus. In some traditions, we also celebrate his baptism, or even Jesus’s miracles and ministry.
Epiphany is a “manifestation”. As the verse above alludes to, and as Pastor Shannon says, it’s the “Light breaking in.”
In these dark times, where are you seeing the light breaking in?
In Common Prayer, the suggested theme for January is “Shared Economics.” The economics of Caesar and Empire are harmful to people and the world, but the Spirit repeatedly calls people to live differently. The prophets and Jesus had a lot to say about how we handle economics, yet it’s a topic that many Christians avoid engaging deeply. In January, we are invited to investigate alternatives and to perform holy experiments.
This January, I’ll be reading and writing about one of the suggested books: God’s Economy: Redefining the Health and Wealth Gospel.
Want to join me? Let me know!
Come join me next week? Northside Meetup: Agile Security and DevSecOps w/ Todd Grotenhuis - Meetup
I’m looking to try out Journal. Use my link, if you sign up yourself?
Goodreads records the entirety of my 2018 reading, here, but I’d like to specifically offer to you the books that I enjoyed the most.
I didn’t read any books this year that I gave 5 stars (these are rare for me), but I read many that were very good (4-stars). I’d be delighted to discuss any of them!
Related: other 2018 Review Posts:
2018 was full of challenges for me, and likely for you. Were we able to grow from them? Will we in 2019?
“Our American Christians are too busy saving the souls of white Christians from burning in hellfire to save the lives of black ones from present burning in fires kindled by white Christians.”
Ida B. Wells quoted in The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
Sunday quote:
One of my greatest pleasures is mentoring and coaching. Helping people grow, learn, and achieve their goals is a great feeling and incredibly rewarding.
One of my objectives in mentoring is to make sure that underrepresented and marginalized people are getting solid support and seeing growth opportunities. In 2018 I worked with five people (outside my org chart, that is), and four of them are from backgrounds typically underrepresented within STEM (in general) and information security (in particular). Being involved with inclusive employee resource groups is a good thing in general, but also helped to make connections that helped foster this objective.
We had a lot of great conversations this year, asked a lot of good questions, and leaned into challenges. While I can’t dig into specifics of these (obviously), here are a few outcomes I’m happy to highlight:
I’m looking forward to new mentoring opportunities in 2019!
Related: other 2018 Review Posts: