A story that happened midway through my Canary Island adventure of 2019. Things often don’t turn out the way we’d planned. However, those things do often turn into the best stories!

ChatStrike is a startup in the recruiting technology space centered around, you guessed it, chat. When Cameron Levy first approached me to work on a chat application for recruiters, choosing the right technology stack took serious consideration. At Platonic Systems, we default to purely functional programming unless there are compelling reasons not to. …

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💡What’s in it for Me: Get Smarter in 5 Minutes Hi everyone 👋. Welcome back to ‘The Weekly Recap’, where I curate a reading list of insightful articles, market updates & bite-sized learnings nuggets to get you caught up for the week. If you're reading this and haven't signed up, join the 260+ others by clicking below, and to the regular readers, thank y…

I am a combination of tired and hungover I cannot adequately describe so let’s get to it. Micro Level, Kansas (W, 75-72 OT) SWEEP This is fun, Texas should do it more often. I watched the end of the game late due to work, and based upon the length of the DVR recording I suspected the game was heading to OT as I told my fiancee good night and went back to th…

The roster construction is being handled in other pieces, this is going to be just about recruiting and thus fairly short because lolllllll I am not the guy for this. As per my yearly reminder, if you want to keep up with recruiting follow guys like

It’s 70 degrees in DFW as I type this recap, which is decidedly not “Christmas” weather but I got to drive with the windows down on my way to pick up al pastor tacos from a Mexican meat market, so all-in-all I’d call it an unexpected bonus in the waning days of a hellscape year. Much in the same vein, Texas basketball being ranked in the top 10 while Lo…

So, how has your day been? Good? Anything noteworthy happen recently? Yea, me neither. When I wrote the ACU recap, I didn’t have any inside information on what may happen with Shaka Smart. I didn’t realize I would effectively nail how the scenario would play out, and I wish I was half this accurate when it comes to picking stocks. This is one of the most us…

An emergency podcast on the escalating pandemic crisis in Indonesia. Dr Sana Jaffrey is the new director of the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), the organisation founded by Sidney Jones in Jakarta. She is also a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC., for whom she is writing about Indon…

In this episode we speak to Ian Wilson (@iwilson69) about his research of over a decade on the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), an Islamist group that challenges Indonesia’s democratic status quo. We talk about how to distinguish the FPI from other militant groups and Ian explains his concept of “morality racketeering”. We end by covering some curious gan…

I have been the storyteller of my dad’s non-Hodgkins, mantle-cell lymphoma since he was diagnosed in early 2019 to his extended community of friends and family. It’s a difficult story for me to tell. It requires delicacy, nuance, and just the right amount of revelation and firmness to share it in a way where everyone knows enough information and (hopefu…

Note: This is the fourth post in a new series I am now titling [Jason’s] Unfolding Queer Cosmology. The name has changed to better reflect the specificity of the Queer Cosmology. It is [mine]. [I] references that it also is not mine alone. Read “The First Post” here.

Vlog: Art Camp for Comrades!

A note: This post talks frankly about bullying and queerness. This autumn my dad asked me to start a project with him. I suggested we write letters to each other based on how he used to write me cards as a kid. We’ve sent a few back and forth. It’s been beautifully healing.

A note: This post talks frankly about bullying and queerness. This autumn my dad asked me to start a project with him. I suggested we write letters to each other based on how he used to write me cards as a kid. We’ve sent a few back and forth. It’s been beautifully healing.

Image description: The QUEERSPELL logo. I was born Catholic and named Jason, which means “Healer,” so I’ve always been drawn to ritual and to the larger questions in life. In fact, I’ve been on a quest to discover more and more about who I be, who I have been, and who I want to be.

Vlog: Art Update

Chit Chat is a video interview series where an artist-comrade and I shoot the shit about our art, values, practices, and praxis for 30 to 60 minutes. There will be uproarious laughter, cursing like a sailor, idle chatter, and maybe even a tear or two. Consider it a love letter between two friends about how we collectively get free.

Thank you all so much for being here today. I know a lot of us are still reeling from this loss, but my hope is that this gathering will help bring us all a sense of closure. It’s never easy to say goodbye, even if we’ve seen it coming for quite some time.

Lately, I’ve felt the overwhelming urge to walk up to anyone and yell “WILL YOU LET ME LOVE YOU?” Perhaps it’s cuffing season working its magic on me; looking straight down the barrel of another long, dark, lonely winter. Whatever it is, there’s been an undeniable surge of available love coursing through my body.

Good morning! I hope you’re doing okay. You are getting this letter a bit later than usual because I didn’t want to write this week at all, but this morning I woke up and decided I actually did want to write so needless to say- what you’re about to read is very unfiltered, unedited and unfancy… in fact, up here at the top of the page I have no idea what…

Good morning. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing okay. I’m so relieved it’s Sunday morning- I find it to be the most optimistic part of the entire week. I am the kind of person who believes that each new month, week and day is a fresh new beginning and that anything could happen in the coming days. Even when I’m depressed I feel this way- I have alwa…