Musings on technology and justice
Cuba has left us with a lot to think about. Still coming to terms with its lessons on race, identity, the bounty of being out of one’s place of comfort, and most importantly those on human dignity and kindness. While I make sense of those lessions, I’ll share some photos from Vedado, Trinidad, and points […]
Read More Havana: whimsical artchitectureDr King spent his last precious hours advocating for the economic rights of African American sanitation workers in Memphis. In his broader vision, this was one arm of a struggle for justice for the poor and powerless that spanned divides of gender and race. I recently met Ryan Harrison at the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and […]
Read More Investing in empowermentThe Atlanta WordCamp is an annual gathering for people that use and develop WordPress sites. Although it is put on by and for the Atlanta WordPress community, I met people from all over. I gave a talk there Sunday (4/15/18) on the state of inclusion in distributed companies. Since WordPress is maintained by a distributed company […]
Read More Distributed Inclusion at WordCamp AtlantaWhen fleeting views from above keep calling to you.
Read More The world beyond the windowThe recent election of Doug Jones to the U.S. senate in Alabama — thanks largely to African American turnout — got me thinking: What if the Black populations of Southern cities were to experience a dramatic increase? How many other elections would be impacted? Does that seem far-fetched? Over a tenth of the Black population of […]
Read More Back to Mississippi: Black migration in the 21st centuryMany useful gleanings from my colleague Yanir Seroussi — he has a plan to keep the interest on your A.I. technical debt real low.
Read More Engineering Data Science at AutomatticI just saw that Robert Langlands has won this year’s Abel Prize in mathematics. A month back I had noted that two University of Chicago mathematicians –Sasha Beilinson and Vladimir Drinfeld — had received the Wolf prize for work that builds upon Langlands’ ideas. What are those ideas? Langlands has spent his life looking for connections […]
Read More A good year for Robert LanglandsWe learned of Stephen Hawking’s passing today. I learned that one of the technologists behind the assistive technology that amplified the continuous flow of so many of his ground breaking insights is Lama Nachman. Her story and the implications for better assistive technology is fascinating. We are both mourning the passing of Stephen Hawking and […]
Read More Mothers of invention, a parting nod from Stephen HawkingAs we passed through Doha on the way to Gaborone, I was amazed by the architectural beauty of so many Islamic inspired structures. It was truly a feast for the eyes and mind. Though we did not have time to visit many of the older architectural treasures, I discovered that a lot of the buildings […]
Read More The geometrical beauty of DohaHeading back from New York City last weekend I was amazed to see an updated station stop display (graph) on the E train to JFK. I don’t have a video, but you can see the how it updates the destinations (I didn’t notice eta) below — a list of next stops shifts to the right: […]
Read More Making the subway more readable
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