Thank you to all the IT professionals who helped me when I asked, “Can you just add this A record to the DNS,” over the years. I recently had the chatbots guide me through implementing and troubleshooting DNS and virtual host configurations for my new site from the command line. In doing so, the bots taught me how complex and
Sexual predators use a pattern of soothing jargon designed to pacify victims as they are stripped of their humanity, and hope is voided from their souls. We see similar patterns of language used by other abusers whose victims are resist their assault. These patterns extend into the business world by way of cowardly leadership afraid of, “rocking the boat.” “Look, let
In late September 2002, on a campground in Southwestern New Hampshire, United States I sat around a small fire in the woods with some of my best friends. We all met for the first time 5 years prior. We bonded over live music, and pro-wrestling. Our host’s brother in-law, a self-avowed nazi, was joining for the weekend. Dennis, the self-avowed
Growing up with a modicum of privilege in the United States during the end of the 20th century we dreamed of the things we could do with our freedom, “to.” We could leave home to make riches and buy big cars, big houses, big boats, big vacations. We had big dreams for things. In those times we took our freedoms,
This weekend I did a job I had never done before. I’m not talking about a job on the other side of the shop, or org chart. I’m talking about completely new and different work to me. I went to work with people whom I had never before worked, materials I had never handled, technologies I had never seen, and
I have cut drivers off who are just trying to merge into traffic. I have walked into buildings and not held the door open for the person behind me. I have emptied my shopping cart and not put the cart in the “return cart here” coral. I have examined apples in the produce section without being welcoming to the others