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The Swan Factory

@TheSwanFactory

Bringing Humanity to Programming

 Silicon Valley, CA
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Joined April 2014
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Announcing The Swan Factory Incubator: Montessori for Startups theswanfactory.com/2017/05/2…
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I make my living by doing a crappy job of solving impossible problems no one else dares to admit even exist. #AwesomeStuffBadly (Then recording it so we can do better)
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Better People Than Scott Aaronson? ihack.us/2023/03/24/better-p…

Better People Than Scott Aaronson?

Reposting a letter sent to one of my Internet Heroes, whom I occasionally correspond with. He is my Hero not because of his brilliant, thoughtful blog on quantum computing (though I do enjoy that),…

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AORTA Spiritual Entrepreneurship Practices ihack.us/2023/03/06/aorta-sp…

AORTA Spiritual Entrepreneurship Practices

Ambition Openness Risk Thankfulness Awareness

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Beyond (Data) Contracts: A Response to Benn Stancil ihack.us/2022/09/23/beyond-d…

Beyond (Data) Contracts: A Response to Benn Stancil

The profound truth here is that we cannot control other people. We can only honestly and gracefully fail, if we are not getting what we need to succeed.

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PipeBook: UX Design Brief ihack.us/2022/07/09/pipebook…
PipeBook: UX Design Brief

PipeBook: UX Design Brief

A key design goal of PipeBook is to break away from the single-browser-window user experience of traditional data notebooks, to take full advantage of the large screens on today’s laptops and…

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Inspired by discussions at the #DataAISummit ihack.us/2022/06/30/pipebook…
PipeBook.yml: Reimagining Notebooks as Resilient Data Pipelines

PipeBook.yml: Reimagining Notebooks as Resilient Data Pipelines

See Also The Data Config by Benn Stancil (Medium) (App)PipeBook: UX Design Brief (Blog) (Framework)Data on Rails: Solving the Data App Imperative (YouTube) Overview The modern data notebook has its…

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Story Blurb: Quilt Data startupfiction.business.blog…
Startup Fiction: The Backstory (podcast) startupfiction.business.blog…
Soul Search: Culture Questions startupfiction.business.blog…
Socrates Evangelion (Beyond “Apology”) startupfiction.business.blog…
Socrates Evangelion (Beyond “Apology”)

Socrates Evangelion (Beyond “Apology”)

My own personal encounter with the Oracle of Delphi (fictionalized). The sequel to Socrates Repents (An Alternative “Apology”). Suddenly seized with certainty, he claps his hands and jumps for joy.…

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Socrates Repents (An Alternative “Apology”) startupfiction.business.blog…
Startup Fiction: Bring Your Story to Life startupfiction.business.blog…

Startup Fiction: Bring Your Story to Life

Contact me for a free story consultation, where I help your team articulate the dreams, emotions, and struggles that define your startup journey.

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Summary: Retrospective Thoughts on BitC ihack.us/2013/05/21/summary-…
Summary: Retrospective Thoughts on BitC

Summary: Retrospective Thoughts on BitC

In my opinion, BitC is the most innovative take on systems programming we’ve seen since the invention of C.  While sad that it failed, I am deeply impressed by the thoughtful post-mortem…

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Story: Molly’s Life Thesis ihack.us/2022/06/09/story-mo…
Story: Molly’s Life Thesis

Story: Molly’s Life Thesis

Molly had been sorely tempted to play it safe. Tell the Elders a story that would inspire them to keep her there. Play on their sympathy. Misrepresent what she was capable of. She tried to make her…

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LifeView (Designing Your Life) ihack.us/2022/06/07/lifeview…

LifeView (Designing Your Life)

To move forward 
Together 
We must internalize 
And reconcile 
The excluded pain 
That enabled us 
To become Us 
By creating Them

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WorkView (Designing Your Life) ihack.us/2022/06/07/workview…
WorkView (Designing Your Life)

WorkView (Designing Your Life)

Work is creating something of value That others recognize. Making a dent in the world Or better, fixing one. With enough accountability Or structure That I cannot hide.

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Analytics Anonymous: The Missing Peace of the Modern Data Stack ihack.us/2022/05/31/analytic…
Analytics Anonymous: The Missing Peace of the Modern Data Stack

Analytics Anonymous: The Missing Peace of the Modern Data Stack

Pitch 2 for Coalesce 2022 (unsubmitted)

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Pitch: Data is a Feature, not a Product ihack.us/2022/05/12/pitch-da…

Pitch: Data is a Feature, not a Product

In this provocative talk Dr. Ernest N. Prabhakar, former Open Source Product Manager at Apple, argues that is time for our industry to reorganize around “decisions” rather than “d…

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Atoms < Bits < Souls: Why Not Boring Needs a Computational Physicist/Spiritual Entrepreneur in Residence ihack.us/2022/04/11/atoms-bi…

Atoms < Bits < Souls: Why Not Boring Needs a Computational Physicist/Spiritual Entrepreneur...

[Not Boring Research Analyst Application] I believe: The Human Colossus is about to undergo a phase transition (“from rational to relational”) analogous to the one where Gutenberg, Luth…

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Bits of Meaning: Towards a Computational Theory of Emotion (BOM-TAC-TOE Rough Draft) ihack.us/2021/12/24/bits-of-…
Bits of Meaning: Towards a Computational Theory of Emotion (BOM-TAC-TOE Rough Draft)

Bits of Meaning: Towards a Computational Theory of Emotion (BOM-TAC-TOE Rough Draft)

[These are my initial musings. It may take weeks or months to turn these into a coherent analysis, so I figured I should publish them as-is to get them out into the world. Merry Christmas!] Challen…

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