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2015-12-18: Abstraction, or, The Gift of Our Weak Brains
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An essay about how our brains are naturally limited. This can be a curse, or it can be a gift, depending on how you look at it.
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2015-05-28: why you're in the right place at the right time
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A talk given to CUNY students and recent grads about the importance of community in shaping a career.
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2014-10-10: Agile Inceptions 101
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An internal "Core Practice" talk given at Pivotal Labs.
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2014-05-06: Immersion
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"Nothing is hidden, everything is transparent, and you are in the driver’s seat."
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2013-10-02: enterprise-fu, or, How To Succeed in Business Like A Ninja Samurai
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A tour de force braindump of my learnings from enterprise jobs
at Bloomberg, Telerate, USPG, and Benchmark Solutions. Some of
my best subversive content.
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2013-09-20: History of Nokogiri (slides) (video)
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The history of a successful OSS project, along with humorous
stories and lessons learned. This talk, given multiple times,
is presented here in its final version from GoGaRuCo 2013.
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2010-03-09: Stupid XML Tricks
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Introduction to OSS projects Loofah, Lorax and McBean to
modify, compare and transform HTML and XML
documents. Presented at NYC.rb.