One the things that transparency policy thinking (for both governments and platforms) hasn’t really grappled with is that transparency past a certain point seems to reduce user/citizen trust. Now seems to be a robust result. academic.oup.com/jpart/advance-…

The Ferry Building today.

Drinking scotch and playing Beethoven on the piano. Now THAT is a good Saturday night.

the thing about fucking up badly is that you can find a great deal of self knowledge and groundedness in fixing a massive disaster

The health of your relationship will depend on how comfortable you can get with having uncomfortable conversations on a regular basis.

Today I am thankful for Blue Bottle Coffee and Kathleen Battle

Sunday read. This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit. I think the winners are: 1/ Enter your phone number

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's

Recorded a podcast episode I’m not totally embarrassed by: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unp…

Came across a parasitic orchid on Mount Tamalpais the other day: Corallorhiza maculata var. occidentalis. Cool thing I learned – this plant parasitizes the mycelium of mushrooms! In particular, those in the in the Russulaceae family. Didn’t know plants did that.

Think I saw a Northern Goshawk accosting a pair of Red-tailed Hawks today in Tilden. First time I’ve seen that. It was at least as big as the Red-tails, maybe slightly bigger. The only other bird bigger than a Red-tail I’ve seen behave this way was a Bald Eagle. Ballsy bird.

Went to a dive bar in Oakland and the discovered this. May I present: the delivery driver for Fieldwork Brewery at the piano.

They say how you do anything is how you do everything. The flip side is the implication that you can change the way you do everything by changing the way you do something very small. That’s pretty fucking cool.

I really want there to be a “silent disco” platform in BART stations where you can rock out to whatever you’re listening to without looking like you’re on crack.

Enjoying vicariously the sheer thrill pro surfers seem to be getting from the big wave conditions in California right now. bbc.com/news/world-us-…

Boonville, CA last night

Look, you’ve got two options. Either make it super smooth and reliable to make changes to your production systems, and test that capability continually, or dramatically increase the chance of getting owned when a CVE comes out because it takes so long to safely apply the fix.

dX: Any advice on using AI in an organisation? Me: Sure. Understand your users, their needs, the components involved in meeting those needs and how evolved those components are BEFORE talking about AI.

IRS Direct File: a government success story thehill.com/opinion/financ…