Where do I even start, dw?
Dec. 8th, 2015 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiredForgive me, circle, it's been like a month since I last posted. In that time I went to San Antonio, and Orlando, and the Space Coast, and caught a cold and gave two talks and handed out 50 business cards. So... let's start with clearing out my tabs.
This talk on The Seven Righteous Fights http://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2015-the-seven-righteous-fights generated a bunch of discussion.
I need to add this article in: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2011/08/why_moral_leade.html to talk about why "do the right thing" is seldom a compelling argument.
I'm super proud of this talk, and I'm working hard on refining it. I just bought a book on presentation slides, called Slide.ology (see that, it has "ideology" in the title. Cunning.) So I need to redo all the images.
I'm actively campaigning (insamuch as I know how) for someone to invite me to come give it as a keynote. It's platform-agnostic, relates to pretty much any kind of software, and has a lot of obvious points packaged in a tidy little format. So if you know anyone who wants to fly me out to give an awesome conference keynote, you should show them this.
The next talk I'm going to do is called "The Kids are Going To Be 200 OK", and it's about cybersecurity and the youth. This talk is the seed of it: http://confreaks.tv/videos/alterconf2015-chicago-the-digital-sandwich-generation-women-s-roles-in-identity-management-for-others. The full-length talk will be about identity and how to troll-proof your kids (from being or suffering) and how to teach threat recognition. Stuff like that.
Also, we went to Disney and it was a completely charming money-extraction-machine, and I didn't even care. Kay and I went on alllll the roller coasters. She is a daredevil, when she lets herself be. Baz did really well, despite the fact that Disney is pretty much SensoryOverloadTopia. Thanks to his OT, he has so many more coping skills and a much better awareness of when he is getting close to his tipping point. I'm really excited about that.
Also, I got an invitation to be on a podcast, and maybe get a magazine writeup, and I got heavily recruited to submit to OSCON, so that was all very professionally productive. Oh, and a couple job leads, and a hot hotel date.
It was a total of 14 days on the road, which was a lot, but I managed. I don't think I want much longer than that, though.
Oh, and I helped my team win the trivia contest at RubyConf! I won by knowing Margaret Hamilton, Jacquard looms, and The Diet of Worms. I sat back and buffed my nails at the round where we identified programming books by cover, though. Not my department. Early Protestantism? Yes. O'Reilly books? No.
I think that is most of the work part of the trip.
This talk on The Seven Righteous Fights http://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2015-the-seven-righteous-fights generated a bunch of discussion.
I need to add this article in: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2011/08/why_moral_leade.html to talk about why "do the right thing" is seldom a compelling argument.
I'm super proud of this talk, and I'm working hard on refining it. I just bought a book on presentation slides, called Slide.ology (see that, it has "ideology" in the title. Cunning.) So I need to redo all the images.
I'm actively campaigning (insamuch as I know how) for someone to invite me to come give it as a keynote. It's platform-agnostic, relates to pretty much any kind of software, and has a lot of obvious points packaged in a tidy little format. So if you know anyone who wants to fly me out to give an awesome conference keynote, you should show them this.
The next talk I'm going to do is called "The Kids are Going To Be 200 OK", and it's about cybersecurity and the youth. This talk is the seed of it: http://confreaks.tv/videos/alterconf2015-chicago-the-digital-sandwich-generation-women-s-roles-in-identity-management-for-others. The full-length talk will be about identity and how to troll-proof your kids (from being or suffering) and how to teach threat recognition. Stuff like that.
Also, we went to Disney and it was a completely charming money-extraction-machine, and I didn't even care. Kay and I went on alllll the roller coasters. She is a daredevil, when she lets herself be. Baz did really well, despite the fact that Disney is pretty much SensoryOverloadTopia. Thanks to his OT, he has so many more coping skills and a much better awareness of when he is getting close to his tipping point. I'm really excited about that.
Also, I got an invitation to be on a podcast, and maybe get a magazine writeup, and I got heavily recruited to submit to OSCON, so that was all very professionally productive. Oh, and a couple job leads, and a hot hotel date.
It was a total of 14 days on the road, which was a lot, but I managed. I don't think I want much longer than that, though.
Oh, and I helped my team win the trivia contest at RubyConf! I won by knowing Margaret Hamilton, Jacquard looms, and The Diet of Worms. I sat back and buffed my nails at the round where we identified programming books by cover, though. Not my department. Early Protestantism? Yes. O'Reilly books? No.
I think that is most of the work part of the trip.
