Climbing Life Lessons: Reassessing Changing Risk

Posted on Fri 14 July 2023 in Productivity • Tagged with project-management, project-planning, research, rant, risk-management

Reassessing risk as conditions change is critical in the backcountry.


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OSS Organization as Leadership

Posted on Mon 30 May 2022 in Leadership • Tagged with equity, diversity, inclusion, rant

The best model of leadership is open source.


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Identity at the crossroads

Posted on Fri 16 July 2021 in Diversity • Tagged with justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, rant

I was no one until I began to acknowledge my intersectionality.


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Case for Experts in Management

Posted on Sat 22 May 2021 in Productivity • Tagged with project-management, rant

Empathy & a growth mindset are equally important to both managers & individual contributors.


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Climbing Life Lessons: Offwidths

Posted on Sat 01 May 2021 in Productivity • Tagged with agile, project-management, project-planning, research, rant, time-management

An offwidth is a difficult climb, too big for hand jams, but too small to chimney.


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Future of Science

Posted on Sun 08 March 2020 in Modeling • Tagged with OSS, science, code, research, rant

The future of science is OSS, and the language is code.


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SPACES: Mnemonic for core values of good modeling software

Posted on Thu 10 May 2018 in Modeling • Tagged with rant, code, modeling

What makes good modeling software? Repeat this three times out loud.


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Python-3 Virtual Environments on MS Windows

Posted on Thu 18 May 2017 in Python • Tagged with virtualenv, pelican, windows, bash, rant

Python-3 venv module vs virtualenv package


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