Category: Reflections
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Connections at SXSW
This is what I love about representing WordPress(.com) “in the field” at SXSW. After a long evening working an event, we had a couple of guys sit at the bar with myself and a couple of coworkers. When we were asked what we do, we answered “Vague Internet Things”. “That’s great—as long as it isn’t…
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Texas Forever
The Texas Standard, an public radio news show focused on, you guessed it, The Lone Star State. They had this wonderful folklore piece that, while you can read it on their site, is best experienced through the spoken voice, embedded above. I’m a Texan, through and through. Texans are full of themselves and their state.…
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Dvorak Frustration
I absolutely underestimated my level of frustration from not being able to get my ideas out of my head.
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When Are You No Longer Mexican? 🇲🇽
Awhile ago, Vanessa and I attended a panel at SXSWi, “What Would Cesar Chavez Tweet?”, that examined the status of Hispanic engagement via social media, particularly while being leveraged for political/social movements. A corollary issue is when is someone no longer “Hispanic enough” to be part of the target demographic? This hits home for me, as…
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Working Remotely on a Remote Farm
Our first step was to try and find a house or apartment in the city. It was hard to find something affordable and after a long search we eventually stumbled upon a cute farm in the southern part of Sweden. The farm originated from the late 1800s and most other people considered this place as extremely remote, which…
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20 Kids Wasn’t Enough
In the last few years, I keep it light around here. Mostly I write about blogging, WordPress, silly stuff about my kids. The heavy stuff is usually something about fatherhood and losing my own dad before I was a teenager. I haven’t written about politics since early college, as far as I can remember. And…