Recently Thought

• April 13, 2021

  My Co-operative Principles

  Mulling over my base principles in contemplating a tech-oriented cooperative way of working, I’m influenced by The ICA’s Principles, Noah’s Personal Tech Ethics and its sources in the IWOC and Design Justice, and Autonomic’s Principles. Democ...

• December 21, 2015

  Years End: Building worthwhile things

  Wrapping up 2015 - my second year of independent contracting - it’s a good time to reflect. I’ve continued to have the opportunity to work on interesting, positive projects this year, with a mix of old and new faces on the other side of the virtua...

• July 22, 2015

  Web Annotations as Perspectives

  Yesterday Mike Caulfield posted a thoughtful piece on annotating the web, Beyond Conversation, on ways in which the web without annotation does not live up to the expectations we ought to have for a system of personal and collective memory. The cu...

• July 20, 2015

  Mid-course Review: Introduction to Human Physiology

  Coursera’s Introduction to Human Physiology from Duke University is a great detailed introductory course available for study at your own pace, consisting of 11 modules/weeks each with 2-3hrs of lectures & slides, good post-slide recall questio...

• July 06, 2015

  BioBuilder book and Biological Engineering

  I’m excited by the new O’Reilly book BioBuilder: Rethinking the biological sciences as engineering disciplines, as I’ve watched the BioBuilder and IGEM Parts projects passively over the last few years work towards repeatable programming of biologi...