Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Random Selection and Food Safety
I love the phrases “randomly selected” in this statement from Jeni’s Ice Cream about their recall of ice cream after listeria was discovered: The impression is that perhaps if that pint hadn’t been picked on by a worker from the Nebraska Department of Agriculture (according to the FDA notice here) that everything woulda been just…
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Popularity + Impact in Volunteer Movements: Alcoholics Anonymous, Poetry Slams, and the Path to Impact for the Civic Innovation Movement
Here’s a presentation I’m giving here later today. Hi, I’m Dan O’Neil, and I want to talk to you about popularity and impact in software. All of us here are somehow a part of the civic innovation sector of the technology industry, which has largely been a volunteer-driven movement. There are some lessons to be…
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Runoff Election Day, April 2015: We are in a Golden Age of Civic Engagement
It is axiomatic to say that it’s hard to recognize you are in a golden age while you are in one. Chicago: we are in a golden age of civic engagement. Treasure it, build it, please don’t let it go. Today is election day in Chicago. I strongly urge you to vote to retain our Mayor, Rahm…
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Technology, Equity, and Who’s Mayor
I read this article this morning, looking for myself, since I am in technology and I support the Mayor for re-election: “Can Chicago’s Tech Community Carry Rahm Emanuel To Victory?” I found lots of places and themes that are familiar to me (1871 as a hub for innovation, the growth in tech jobs, and the…
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Two Catholic Days
I have taught CCD for the last nine years. CCD stands for “Confraternity of Catholic Doctrine”. It’s where Catholic kids who go to public school get religion class and prepare for the sacraments of First Communion and Confirmation. My time as a catechist has patterned after the religious education of my two children— I’ve taught as they’ve…