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The important kind of freedom

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If, like me, you hadn’t read David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest, before his suicide, a good place to start is his 2005 speech to the graduating class of Kenyon University.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

Real reasons for concern about Palin

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Sarah Palin has generated a lot of critical noise. Let’s focus on the points we should be criticizing. She’s unscrupulous, greedy, and abusive of power. The problem is not that she’s “conservative.” The problem is that she’s not conservative in her use of power or natural resources to further any ends. (Google “Sarah Palin” and… Read more »

Kicking Ass Passionately

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My one regret after missing WordCamp San Francisco was not seeing Kathy Sierra. Luckily, here is her inspiring self in action! I would really like all my coworkers to watch this. There’s nothing specific about WordPress in the talk; it’s relevant to any web applications.