this is my digital life
I’ve been an open source champion for a long time. I believe in transparency. I believe in public process. I believe that bringing more people into the room and making the process visible produces better outcomes. And I’ve watched communities I love burn through their best contributors because they couldn’t figure out when not to […]
This was an invited talk, given today, at the Talent Arena at Mobile World Congress. I’m going to make an argument that humans are not built to live and work the way we do today. We have not evolved far enough to comfortably exist in our modern context. There is a whole lot of information […]
The XZ Backdoor and Beyond: A Call for Enterprise Investment in Open-Source “The task of assessing the trustworthiness of open-source (OSS) that is in use, or that is being considered for use, is more complex for OSS than for proprietary software, because there is, generally speaking, no direct relationship between the authors of software and […]
As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Kubernetes this month, I find myself reflecting on what made this project truly unique. It wasn’t just about the technology or the industry giants behind it; it was about empowering a diverse community to shape the future of cloud-native computing. When I joined this project and became part […]
Yes, I’m having an identity crisis. No, it’s not the one you think. September 11th 2014 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. That Thursday morning, after I finished giving a talk, I took a call from my doctor and took the rest of the afternoon off. With that call, an ancillary characteristic of me became […]
summers always are big transition times for me. last year i wrote about my transition to evangelism and this year i get to write about changes again. this summer i decided to go looking for the next thing. i did a lot of brainstorming and mind-mapping to find out what i wanted. it turned out i wanted […]
it seems that i’ve been mentioning ignite talks to everyone i speak to for the last few weeks. i’ve been a huge fan since i gave my first one at the MySQL C&E in 2010. for those of you who might be living in a cave or not on every oreilly media mailing list, ignite […]
thanks to Kristen Miller from Tech Image for preparing me for my first press interview! I’ve collected her bits of wisdom below with my notes about the mysql council announcement 1. have a central theme creation of the mysql council why was this created. ioug saw opening and wanted to bridge between mysql/oracle 2. talk […]
words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect. -Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
i’m currently learning the price of an unbalanced work/life existence. i love technology and technology work. but, this summer i was unable to kick a sinus infection because i didn’t allowed myself the space to just be sick and recover. there are more than a few things that lead up to this including many things […]