Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Xmastime Shoutout du Jour

An old friend of mine from NYC is in the Atlantic on what government can and should learn from hacker culture:
What’s preventing reform? The answer starts with the government’s hierarchical structure—though an information-is-power mentality and “need to know” Cold War-era culture contribute too. To improve the practice of information sharing, government needs to change the structure of information sharing. Specifically, it needs to flatten the hierarchy.
I have no idea what the article says because I'm an idiot, but it seems very impressive to me and should be passed along.

I also have fond memories of babysitting her kids a few times. For one, they had the best couch I've ever sat in. I don't know what it was - it was big, maybe lumpy in spots but springy in others, but it was a great couch. Unfortunately they didn't have cable so if you sat on the couch you had to actually pay attention to the kids, so. Both kids were very sweet & entertaining - I can still remember looking down at the little girl after walking through 8 blocks of NYC to the playground amidst crazy traffic noise and genuinely asking "oh my god - have you been talking this whole time?!?"

:)

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