May 2012
Menu and Hours: Learning to Define →
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The world of software development needs more people who know how to define better solutions than the ones we have now.
That’s a quote from my friend and mentor Gina Trapani in response to Jeff Atwood’s recent post on the wave of popular “learn to code” initiatives and apps. Atwood’s post is…
“But I didn’t have any official status as a mourner, according to Jewish law. The definition of a mourner, spelled out in Leviticus, is quite clear: a parent, spouse, child, or sibling of the deceased. Elie was a mourner. I was not. The way I saw it, my role was not to mourn. It was to comfort Elie and his parents—the official mourners—and to put my own feelings aside. If Elie wanted to talk, I would listen. If Elie wanted to sit in silence, we would do that. If Elie wanted to distract himself and go for a walk or cook an elaborate meal, we did that. My duty was to follow suit and support.”
—Essay: Searching for a Way to Mourn for the Man Who Would Have Been My Brother-in-Law – Tablet Magazine
“If you just looked at Cherny’s curriculum vitae, you’d assume he was the fictional fourth child in The Royal Tenenbaums, the one with a yen not for finance, playwriting, or tennis but politics. Cold War-obsessed, he volunteered to work for the Michael Dukakis campaign when he was 12.”
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Such an awesome description.
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“Pinkwashing: Iran to execute four for “sodomy” while Tel Aviv opens a new Gay Center, so of course Queers Against Israeli Apartheid decide to protest Israel at Toronto Pride Parade”
—Pinkwashing: Iran to execute four for “sodomy” while Tel Aviv opens a new Gay Center, so of course Queers Against Israeli Apartheid decide to protest Israel at Toronto Pride Parade | Jewlicious THE Jewish Blog
“Writing is the connective tissue that creates understanding. We, as social creatures, often better perform rituals to form understanding one on one, but good writing enables us to understand each other at scale.”
—Rands In Repose: Please Learn to Write
