Jun 17, 2022Living with Severe FibroidsI am writing this article to raise awareness. Fibroids are extremely common. Up to 70 percent of women will develop them in their lifetimes. These benign tumors of the uterus can range from minor annoyance to severely debilitating. Over the past 18 months, fibroids have landed me in the ER…Fibroids5 min readFibroids5 min read
Published in CodeX·Aug 25, 2021Self-Driving StarshipWhy We Need AI to Reach the Stars — When you think of artificial intelligence in space, you probably think of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, or perhaps Moya, the living ship on the Farscape TV series. You may not realize how close we are. I have authored a few chatbots and talked to a handful more. …Mwc Space4 min readMwc Space4 min read
Published in Extra Newsfeed·Jun 8, 2021Greening the BlockchainHow Decentralized Finance Can Change the Climate Equation — Imagine waking up on a crisp, cool morning in early September 2038 and checking the news. You see a headline that world temperatures have fallen by half a degree Celsius in the past six months, meeting the final benchmark of the Paris Climate Accords. Then you check your online wallet…Climate Change5 min readClimate Change5 min read
Published in The Startup·Sep 17, 2020Member-onlyActionable DataWhere Design and Data Science Converge — First, be warned. What I am about to share is vague and nebulous. It is also extremely powerful. Actionable data is tech-stack agnostic. It can be applied using any of multiple tool sets. It is a paradigm — which is to say, a way of thinking. It grows from the…Design Thinking5 min readDesign Thinking5 min read
Published in Extra Newsfeed·Feb 4, 2020Want to win in 2020?There’s an app for that. — After the Iowa caucus debacle, apps don’t have the best rep in the Democratic party. But the party needs to retool and modernize its thinking. Here’s why: A mobile cross-platform elections app could be pivotal to the Democrats’ success on November 3. But don’t go checking Google Play or the…Politics4 min readPolitics4 min read
Published in Code Like A Girl·Oct 12, 2019Cupcakes for EveryoneHow Ethereum Smart Crowdfunding Can Democratize Tech — This article proposes a simple and elegant way to sustainably fund free software and open source projects. It can also be used to fund ongoing releases of established projects and to publish music, movies, books and games. It’s great for angels and founders, because it preserves equity. …Open Source7 min readOpen Source7 min read
Apr 25, 2019This Is What We Call a PivotAKA Why You Should Come to My Launch Party — Lotus.fm Launch Party. Downtown Portland. Thursday, May 2. Free. Live Music. I moved to Portland, Oregon two and a half years ago, from a sleepy little hamlet in Western Massachusetts close to the towns of Northampton and Amherst. I don’t have cred. I am not “old Portland.” But somehow or…Music4 min readMusic4 min read
Aug 22, 2018What to Do While the World Is BurningOregon is on fire. Not all of it, but enough that Mt. Hood might as well never have existed, from the vantage point of Portland. Visibility through the haze fades to feet instead of miles. …Climate Change3 min readClimate Change3 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Feb 3, 2018In Defense of BitcoinWhy Cryptocurrency Could Save Civilization As We Know It — Not all currencies are created equal. It may be fashionable to call Bitcoin a bubble, and perhaps a burst one. But what sets Bitcoin apart has virtually nothing to do with financial markets. What sets Bitcoin apart is also what makes the currency uniquely resilient. Bitcoin has no master. Bitcoin…Blockchain4 min readBlockchain4 min read
Published in Athena Talks·Jan 15, 2018Don’t Call Me a Nice PersonHow to Be a Female Founder — This is the blueprint on how to be a female founder. This is the top secret plan. #1. Check your hair. Always check your hair. Because no matter how good your facts, your team, your market research, your pro formas, your supporting PowerPoint deck, your references, your working nuclear fusion…Startup5 min readStartup5 min read
