Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Feminist joke This morning, Leonard worked on making some cinnamon rolls. "It's really hard to find yeast," he said after venturing to our neighborhood shops. My instant reply: "Maybe you could use early money instead." …
We extended the deadline. You have one more day to make me write a $15,000 check for inclusive tech instead of $6K. The new deadline is December 31, 4:30pm ET/1:30pm PT, so I have time …
Enjoy! Donors so far have only matched a quarter of my USD$15,000 donation to Stumptown Syndicate, and the deadline's tomorrow. Past Open Source Bridge talks on getting better at fundraising or finding investors: "How to …
Every year the Yuletide fanfic exchange delivers a bounty of fun and goodness, and enables me to refuel my participation in fandom. (Last night at the Hacker School holiday potluck (I brought beet juice), I …
After we watched The Ref and ate our Thai takeout, I web-sought a fire log video and started playing it. "It's amazing that people make these," I said. Beat. "I am sort of waiting for …
I've known Brendan for more than a decade. Today I went back and read a bunch of his old blog posts. I clicked back and back and back, through jobs, girlfriends, cities, games, stories. He …
So let's assume you want to improve a particular community, and you've already read my earlier pieces, which I am now declaring prerequisites: "Why You Have To Fix Governance To Improve Hospitality", "Hospitality, Jerks, and …
Fundamentally, if you want to make a community hospitable,* you need to work not just on individual rules of conduct, but on governance. This is because the particular people implementing rules of conduct will use …
I'm donating up to $15,000 to the Stumptown Syndicate -- depending on how much you are willing to match by December 29th Updated: 31st at 1:30pm Pacific Time. Please join me by donating today and …
Many of these came to my attention thanks to singlecrow's link to a rec post; thanks! "Level Up", a Buffy vid by such_heights. A great match of song and topic, with an inspiring focus on …