In grad school, I remember a conversation across the campus green with an visiting psychologist from Harvard. I don’t remember much about the conversation except that he introduced me to Isaiah Berlin’s notion of the Hedgehog and the Fox, and correctly pegged me as a Fox. I think I was a bit offended at the [...]
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Personal computing in a decentralized world: a hopeful direction
I’ve been having a really stimulating few weeks, which is making me feel oddly optimistic, so I figured I’d spread the cheer. It’s been somewhat quieter than usual in my little corner of Mozilla, as many of my colleagues were busy preparing for on our big announcements and demos at Mobile World Congress. This lull [...]
Tim O'Reilly on the future web wars
I’ve tended to limit my link referrals to my Twitter feed over the last year, but I wanted to advertise Tim O’Reilly’s latest post on this channel as well (it also feels great to have more than 100 characters to express myself!). Tim explains well what the new battlegrounds for the future of the web [...]
Tim O’Reilly on the future web wars
I’ve tended to limit my link referrals to my Twitter feed over the last year, but I wanted to advertise Tim O’Reilly’s latest post on this channel as well (it also feels great to have more than 100 characters to express myself!). Tim explains well what the new battlegrounds for the future of the web [...]
Downtown East Side: one week in
We’ve recently moved the Mozilla Messaging offices, for a variety of reasons, to our cool new digs. Partially so I have something to look back in a few months, I thought I’d write down my thoughts about the new space and neighborhood. The office itself is pretty much what I was hoping it would be. [...]
Positive Energy for Change, for a Change
Change is hard. I spend a lot of time trying to enable, encourage, foster, stimulate, provoke, change in software. Part of that is because it feels like it’s that most plastic of human endeavors. That, of course, is only true to the extent that the people involved in the creation of software _are_ plastic. One [...]
What's Mozilla's scope? What should it be?
A couple of canadians (!) have recently put up interesting posts about the Mozilla Foundation: David Eaves, with whom I had a great breakfast a few weeks ago, and Marc Surman, with whom I had a great long-distance phone chat. Both posts are worth reading, and digesting. For what it’s worth, I agree with both. [...]
What’s Mozilla’s scope? What should it be?
A couple of canadians (!) have recently put up interesting posts about the Mozilla Foundation: David Eaves, with whom I had a great breakfast a few weeks ago, and Marc Surman, with whom I had a great long-distance phone chat. Both posts are worth reading, and digesting. For what it’s worth, I agree with both. [...]
Dangerous Strategy Meetings
I just got back from doing a podcast for RainCity Radio, with Zak, Boris, and Dave Olson as host. The podcast was fun, as was the conversation afterwards with Zak and Boris. Unfortunately, the day was so beautiful that we went out for a beer to complement our strategy brainstorming. Nothing like drinking a good [...]
Mice everywhere
Clay Shirky has another great essay out, which I recommend you go read now. Just like Robert Sayre, I find it resonating with me, in a few ways. First, I certainly see the societal possibilities of amplifying what feels like an already existing trend. Second, the writers’ strike was for me a great personal kick [...]
