This post connects the previous post about self-differentiation with Brené Brown's focus on vulnerability, showing how embracing vulnerability is crucial to experiencing and extending grace, leading to true self-differentiation and spiritual growth.
Whole-I-Ness 2: Embracing Self-Differentiation As A Modern Path to Spiritual Wholeness (ChatGPT as Larry Wall)
By framing self-differentiation as a process akin to writing clean, efficient Perl code, this post aims to convey the importance of maintaining integrity and clarity amidst life's complexities.
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), but his deep humility and public vulnerability. Dear Scott, who are undoubtedly better people than I am For the record, no,... Continue Reading →
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
Analytics Anonymous: The Missing Peace of the Modern Data Stack
Pitch 2 for Coalesce 2022 (unsubmitted) While we love great technology, I bet most of us embraced the Modern Data Stack in order to positively impact human beings: our business, our industry, and our society. But if you're like me, you've discovered the problems you care most about might not be solvable by current (or... Continue Reading →
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!] Challenge Question: What is the minimum number of bits necessary to meaningfully simulate some aspect of an emotion? One Bit... Continue Reading →
Psycho-Analytic Engineering (Coalesce 2021)
Using Data to Differentiate Our Selves Keynote Talk Proposal for Coalesce 2021 Google Slides Based on "DBT as Organizational Therapy" Pitch Video https://www.loom.com/share/58c52bb915da4d57a66995f618194ce8 More powerful tools and shorter cycle times mean that we analytics engineers “get to” spend less time on coding SQL and “have to” spend more time understanding the deeper needs, motivations, and... Continue Reading →
DBT as the “Couch” for Organizational Therapy
Or, "How ELTT is the Key to World Peace" Draft Submission Script for Coalesce 2021 Hey there Data Lovers, my name is Dr. Ernie. And this is my English Cocker Spaniel Qhuinn, who with me and my boss make up the IT department at a Palo Alto startup. I am Caltech physicist turned management consultant... Continue Reading →
SSO Login into Salesforce from Node via samlp SAML IdP
Documenting this in a blog post because it drove us crazy trying to figure out exactly what was involved, even though it was actually easy to implement once we understood all the terminology. In order for our previously-authenticated users to automatically log into Salesforce, we needed to: Create a "/sso-url" on our node server for our... Continue Reading →
A Spirited Defense of Consciousness
Dear Scott, I finally found some deadlines to force me to put forward an account of consciousness. 🙂 Here it is. While rather simplistic, I have found it a useful model for clarifying my own thinking. The key innovation is defining Spirit as "the ability to reflect on our thoughts feelings and desires in order to... Continue Reading →
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