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• Visiting Carbon Offset Sites Prior to the Global Climate Strike

  Comparing Offset Earth, Project Wren, and the Eden Reforestation Project — Sep 18, 2019

• Sleep, Creativity, and Being Brilliant Every Day

  Other Lessons to Learn From - Volume 02 — Aug 27, 2019

• Agile Antipatterns

  Planning Tetris, Feature Factories, and Success Theater: What They Are and How to Fix Them. With Lego. — Aug 2, 2019

• Overcoming Complexity through the Principle of Least Power

  Defining an Principled Approach to API Innovation With Layers — Jul 17, 2019

• On Travel

  Reconsidering Travel in an Uncertain Age — Jun 21, 2019

• APIs and Digital Transformation

  A Mile Marker for Leadership in the Net API Journey — May 6, 2019

• A Plan for Continuous Learning and Win Sharing

  Approaching Team Talent Management — May 6, 2019

• Diffusion of Innovation, Digital Transformation, and Dynamic Systems Theory

  Other Lessons to Learn From - Volume 01 — Apr 18, 2019

• APIs, Specifications, and Pedantry

  What is in a Name? — Feb 27, 2019

• A Manager README for Me

  Setting the Context for How I Work with My Team — Feb 14, 2019

• Soft and Hard Power in Software Governance

  A Primer on Different Approaches to Process Management — Nov 13, 2018

• A Gardener's Approach to Growing an API Culture

  Presented at APIStrat, APICity 2018 — Oct 31, 2018

• Adding SSL to WebAPI.events

  Updating a Personal Project to Do the Right Thing — Aug 13, 2018

• Rethinking NPS for API Quality

  An Update to the API Governance Blueprint — Jul 10, 2018

• Facebook, Regulation, and Who Controls the Kitchen Sink

  The Impending Regulatory Crapstorm — Mar 26, 2018

• The Role of Product Management in API Design

  Curating Developer Success through Sound Product Management — Mar 12, 2018

• RIP John Perry Barlow

  Cyberspace is Dead. Long Live Cyberspace — Feb 8, 2018

• Three Ways Conways Law Affects API Governance

  Presented at API Strat 2016 — Dec 7, 2017

• Making IT Culture Change Work

  Questions about API Governance for IT Culture Change — Oct 26, 2017

• API Governance for IT Culture Change

  Presented at API World 2017 — Oct 3, 2017

• Logan, Westerns, and a Civilized Internet

  Where to Even Start... — Jul 12, 2017

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  A Different Declaration of Independence — Jul 4, 2017

• Searching for Systematic Solutions

  Because 'Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness' was Already Taken — Apr 13, 2017

• Empathy for All

  Reflections on a Rural America Protest Vote — Dec 27, 2016

• Toward a More Perfect Union

  Balancing Work with Sorta Work — Dec 3, 2016

• Planting One's Feet

  Initial Election Actions — Nov 17, 2016

• Ex Machina

  Or Why I'm Not Freaking Out about AI (Yet) — Oct 12, 2016

• What if Developers Aren't Meant to Do API Design?

  Struggling with the Question — Sep 6, 2016

• Hiring Blind

  Trying Something Different — Aug 2, 2016

• Codified Cultural Bias

  Why Facebook's Algorithmic Feed Bothers Me More than Killer AI — Aug 1, 2016

• Consistency AND Cohesion

  Why Enterprise API Governance is Necessary — Jun 2, 2016

• Advice for Software Developers

  Conversations with Strangers on Buses — May 25, 2016

• We're all Kin

  On Kin Lane and the Fulfillment of Community — May 24, 2016

• A Microservice Primer

  Essential Resources to Get Started — Feb 8, 2016

• On API Product

  Soul of a New, NEW Machine — Sep 22, 2015

• Tomorrowland is Necessary

  A Review — Jun 9, 2015

• APIs will be Invisible

  My Past, Present, and Future of RESTful APIs — May 19, 2015

• The Favela vs the Planned Community

  Why is API Governance Necessary? — May 12, 2015

• How APIs Drive Business Innovation

  APIs are Vital Because it's a Digital World — Apr 20, 2015

• Safe Cultures for Sharing Failures

  The Care and Feeding of Storytelling Cultures. — Mar 30, 2015

• Under the Skin (2014)

  A Review — Mar 23, 2015

• The Traveling Salesman (2012)

  A Review — Mar 17, 2015

• Chappie (2015)

  A Review — Mar 7, 2015

• Coherence (2014)

  A Review — Mar 4, 2015

• Robocop (2014)

  A Review of the Reboot — Mar 4, 2015

• Jupiter Ascending (2015)

  A review of the film, Jupiter Ascending. — Feb 19, 2015

• The Zero Theorem (2014)

  A Review — Feb 18, 2015

• The Congress (2014)

  A Review — Feb 2, 2015

• Storytelling and the Developer's Need to Communicate

  The things we tell each other are as important as the things we tell ourselves. — Jan 8, 2015

• The API Economy and the Amen Break

  In Defense of the Unassuming Application Mashup — Nov 4, 2014

• Technical Literacy for All

  Attempting to Debunk the Perception of Disposable Gadgetry — Oct 29, 2014

• My Daughter's Balloon Stand

  A Life Lesson in Risk, Acceptance, and Parenting — Aug 25, 2014

• Detroit and Hypermedia

  2014 APICraft Conference Recap — Aug 11, 2014

• Cooling on the Connected Car

  Why Keeping Cars Dumb is Smart — Jun 30, 2014

• NFL and the IoT

  Let's Play — Jun 16, 2014

• APIs on the Edge

  Gluecon 2014 Day 2 Recap — May 31, 2014

• APIs and Better Dev Cultures

  Gluecon 2014 Day 1 Recap — May 21, 2014

• Conferences and the Magic Circle

  Why Special Events have a Place in an Age of eLearning — May 20, 2014

• On Amsterdam & APIs

  The 2014 API Strategy & Practice Conf Recap — Apr 2, 2014

• On Content

  Why Build Someone Else's Cathedral? — Mar 24, 2014

• Spike Jonze's Her (2013)

  An Orthogonal Reivew — Mar 3, 2014

• Hiring Beyond Keywords

  Determining the Skills for Winning Development — Mar 1, 2014

• Recruiter Problems

  When it is more Convenient to Spam than Spoon — Feb 24, 2014

• The Fandemonium that Binds

  Sport as Story as Civic Unifier — Jan 31, 2014

• Happiness Aggro

  Building a Tech Deck for Maximizing Fun — Jan 29, 2014

• Resolve to Systems, Not Goals

  Tweaking the Traditional New Year's Resolutions — Jan 23, 2014

• Too Old to Techno?

  Finding Peace in an Age-Obsessed Profession — Jan 14, 2014

• The Roar Proceeds a Fall

  Class, Tech Elitism, and Opportunity Gulfs — Dec 16, 2013

• Mobile is Dead

  Long Live Mobility — Dec 12, 2013

• Designing Interfaces When There Are None

  The Coming Challenges of Ubiquitous Computing — Dec 11, 2013

• Less Analyzing, More Synthesizing

  A Self-Imposed Vaccum to Suck Less — Dec 1, 2013

• WE Make Stuff

  A New Normal Without Users, Only Collaborators — Nov 7, 2013

• Rethinking Retail

  A Visit to the JustFab Store — Nov 7, 2013

• Looking Good, Working Fine

  Onsite with JustFab — Nov 6, 2013

• Comic Interlude

  Making Light of Serious Work — Sep 30, 2013

• Facebook Likes for Fun and Profit

  Social Media for NFL Collectible Card Decisions — Sep 5, 2013

• My Google Interview

  -and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day(s) — Aug 31, 2013

• Exploring the Hollywood Model

  From a Decade of Vox Pop — Aug 2, 2013

• the anyScreen Project

  From a Decade of Vox Pop — Aug 1, 2013

• The Malleable, Overnight, Digitally Abundant Future

  From a Decade of Vox Pop — Jul 2, 2013

• Blood, Bridges, and Ice Cream

  A Signal for Which Bridges are Worth Building — Jul 1, 2013

• Not All Who Wander Are Lost

  How to Effectively Develop Software Remotely — Jun 21, 2013

• Lament of the Lone Coder

  The Guilt and Fear of the Remote Worker — Jun 7, 2013

• Weaned on Wired Magazine

  From a Decade of Vox Pop — Jun 2, 2013

• On Technical Debt

  The Physical Weight of Poor Decisions — Jun 1, 2013

• Scrolling is a Hack

  Google Glass & the IDE Devs Deserve — May 31, 2013

• The Web is just an APP

  Client-Server Desktop Websites are at a Crossroad — May 26, 2013

• Laptop Battles

  Finding Peace in an Age-Obsessed Profession — May 22, 2013

• Dispersed Equals Dialogue

  Revisiting the Hollywood Model — May 17, 2013

• Triage

  Marking a Moment — May 1, 2013

• Networked Tribes, Super-Empowerment, and Resilient Systems

  From a Decade of Vox Pop — Apr 22, 2013

• On DevOps

  What happened on the way to insanity. — Mar 23, 2013

• So I Am Making an App

  The Making of Behind the Making Of — Feb 27, 2013

• Gamification verses Games

  How Not to Begin a Gamification Process — Feb 25, 2013

• The Bad Kind of Status Update

  A Pep Talk for the Minefield — Feb 21, 2013

• Intro to Gamification

  Slides and Text Embedded — Feb 4, 2013

• Document First, Again

  Expanding on a Best Practice — Jan 9, 2013