Uncategorized Recipe For a Good Human Society Created 28 October 2017 / Updated 28 October 2017 by adamf My friend JoAnn gave me this recipe card today: Recipe For a Good Human Society Start with one View of basic self-worth — apply liberally and marinate continuously. Add high quality principles. Cook’s note: I suggest generosity, patience, compassion, kindness, and intelligence. Be careful not to cross-contaminate ingredients with doubt. Stir well, then let rest […] Read more »
Uncategorized Running Through the Grief Created 24 October 2017 / Updated 27 October 2017 by adamf Even though I know things must be as they are, I am still struggling. The grief is coming in waves now, occasionally incapacitating me. That’s better than before, when I was overwhelmed for weeks on end. It’s still hard to surrender and accept that sometimes I am helpless because of it. Yesterday was a hard […] Read more »
Uncategorized The Wisdom in Dark Emotions Created 10 October 2017 / Updated 10 October 2017 by adamf Great article in The Lion’s Roar on the Wisdom of Dark Emotions: Knowing how our grief, fear and despair may be connected to larger emotional currents and social conditions de-pathologizes these emotions, allowing us to accept and tolerate them more fruitfully, and with more compassion for ourselves and others. We begin to see the dark […] Read more »
Uncategorized Learned Optimism Created 8 October 2017 / Updated 7 March 2021 by adamf In a previous post I mentioned that science didn’t know much about how to teach or grow optimism. I was wrong about that – quite a bit is known, actually. After I wrote that post I became more interested in how to learn optimism, and came across Martin Seligman’s great book on the subject, Learned […] Read more »
Uncategorized I’m Hiring Created 30 September 2017 / Updated 7 March 2021 by adamf I’m hiring for two software developer positions: Senior Software Developer Software Developer We’re a fast-growing, fun, high-performance team working on some interesting large-scale machine learning applications. We use Scrum and Extreme Programming methodologies, Linux and Open Source software (and we contribute back also), and know that it’s creativity that matters, not the number of lines […] Read more »
Uncategorized You Are Living in a Poem Created 24 September 2017 / Updated 28 October 2017 by adamf “You are living in a poem,” says poet Naomi Shihab Nye. “What do you mean, we’re living in a poem?” Or, “When? All the time, or just when someone talks about poetry?” And I’d say, “No, when you think, when you’re in a very quiet place, when you’re remembering, when you’re savoring an image, when […] Read more »
Uncategorized Kindness Created 23 September 2017 / Updated 28 October 2017 by adamf Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How […] Read more »
Uncategorized Change Backtick to Escape Key for MacBook Pro with Touchbar Created 18 September 2017 / Updated 19 June 2018 by adamf My work computer is a new MacBook Pro. It’s great except one thing – it has a Touchbar, and that means there’s no physical Escape key. I’m a vim user and so have been feeling pain about that, since the Escape key is essential to using vim. Then I discovered Karabiner Elements. It allows you […] Read more »
Uncategorized The First White President Created 10 September 2017 / Updated 10 September 2017 by adamf Great article by Ta-Nehisi Coates in October’s Atlantic Monthly: The First White President. Brilliant and intelligent. It begins: It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way to […] Read more »
Uncategorized Grief Created 8 September 2017 / Updated 7 October 2017 by adamf I made a grief resources page. Read more »