'I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past…'
2025 wasn t the best year in memory. Between job challenges, 8 months of unemployment, and spending weeks recovering after having 20% of my right kidney removed due to renal cell carcinoma….let s just say it wasn t the best year for me or my family. But even in the midst of all of the troubles, there were
I am very, very excited to announce that Nov 3 I will be joining the Open Science Hardware Foundation as their inaugural Executive Director. The OSHF is a US based non-profit with a global community that works to advance open scientific instrumentation to accelerate science and benefit society. We do this through collaboration, policy, advocacy, and
I was extremely happy to be invited to deliver the opening keynote at AspenCon 2025 speaking to a room full of people excited to be a part of open source development in libraries is always a great time. I was feeling reflective when I was asked to come up with a topic, and decided to look
The world we dream about I’m finding it really difficult to find the right words to use to say goodbye to Hadestown. This show and this cast have been the very best the live theater can be; a moment, a happening, an emergent experience that was so much more than the sum of the parts.
It has been quite a month, friends. Looking for Work On Monday April 21st, I was informed that I would be leaving NISO. There was no warning, and the reason given was a general economic downturn and the waves hands around chaos of modern non-profit life, primarily from government agencies. I had just days to
On October 15, 2008, I had an essay published in Library Journal called Stranger Than We Know which was my attempt to try and understand where the next 10 years would take technology and libraries. Written just after the release of the iPhone 3G, I was trying to think carefully about what the smartphone explosion
I had the opportunity to see the current production of Cabaret on Broadway (thanks to my wonderful family), and as it is my favorite musical nay, my favorite staged media full stop I have thoughts. It is a radical departure from the previous Broadway productions, and while it was magnificent in its way, it wasn t the Cabaret
This blog has entirely morphed into Jason talks about theater it appears. I m going to be directing another show! I m heading up the Millennium Repertory Company s production of Little Shop of Horrors. We open in late January, so rehearsals and such will be over the holiday season. I ve got an amazing cast: The biggest challenge
Warning: enormous amount of theater nerd opinion below I had the great privilege to see the current Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Lunt-Fontanne theater the evening of March 15th, and we got lucky that none of the “star” principles were out (Gaten Matarazzo was out the 14th,
Tennessee legislators in the State Senate have voted to move forward SB 0003, a bill which will criminalize performance in drag. The bill is not particularly long nor difficult to understand, so I m going to include the relevant bits here: How many plays and musicals are going to be outlawed due to the insane TN