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<p>I’ve got a couple more writings coming down the pipeline but I want to take this opportunity to announce that I stand with the people and the nation of Ukraine. We in the west should band together to support a country being bullied by the imperialist actions of a violent, expansionist power that is Russia.</p>
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<p>From my blog to the people of Ukraine we stand with you. слава україні!</p>
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<p>Last week, the day before I flew out to Denver for a long time good friend’s wedding, I made a brief detour in my hometown and adjacent town. I visited the adjacent town because other long time friends have made a major decision to relocate to northern Wisconsin for a fresh start and new work opportunities. I visited the town for a suit fitting for my mother’s remarriage to someone who has basically been in my family for the majority of my life and is already my stepdad effectively.</p>
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<p>On my journey I decided to add a few stops. It was a beautiful spring day in early June. Midday and not too warm. First I stopped by a little mystical and occult shop that I’ve picked up supplies for since I was a high schooler. I stocked up on incense of every variety so that I would be ready for a long time!</p>
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<p>Then after that I decided to hop by a local Chinese buffet that some old friends and I used to frequent. It’s simple, moderate quality comfort food where I could sit in silence for a bit and contemplate. I was feeling nostalgic this day and I wanted to make a couple more odd trips around town to see how far we’ve transitioned out of my old life as a young man into full adulthood. Since 2004, my hometown has been in steady decline. The departure of heavy industry like Maytag and Butler sent the town into an economic spiral that its never truly recovered from, even twenty years later. The relentless march of capitalism, globalizing economies and changing consumer demands has left towns like mine, which thrived in the 90s as not much more than hollow husks falling into disrepair.</p>
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<p>After my stop at lunch I decided to pick up a pack of Pokemon cards at an old haunt. I don’t know if I was feeling especially nostalgic or what but I felt a spiritual need to visit some old places as all these areas in my life that have changed to be nearly unrecognizable. As I’ve hinted at before, my religious beliefs are a little wishy-washy but in general I would describe myself as a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://neo-paganism.org/what-is-neo-paganism/">Neopagan</a>. I generally find that while I am spiritual, I am not a monotheist but rather somewhere between an animist, polytheist and pantheist. Sometimes I am more of an agnostic deist even. Lately I describe myself especially as an animist because I find that such a way of intuiting spiritual things feels the most natural to me. I think John Halstead’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://neo-paganism.org/animism/">website entry about animism</a> is very illuminating for a quick rundown of what this entails.</p>
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<p>I can write on the topic in more depth in the future but the short version is that there are natural places in my life where I have had profound moments and as I grow older, now with my son, I want to return to some of those sites and pay homage. One specifically is at my old, abandoned elementary school. A collection of trees under which, at about age ten or fifth grade, I had a sort of revelation about what I think of the universe. It’s too numinous to describe here but I remember it as if it was yesterday. My best friend was standing near me at the time when I had this thought and I even remember the direction I was facing: southwest. So I visited this location and collected some pictures.</p>
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<p>This was a positive, reflective experience for me where I got to relive a lot of childhood memories running around with my friends imaging worlds in a way only a child can. There was a sense of sadness at seeing this place closed but also a serene sense of peace. It was nice seeing that some of the open space was dedicated to solar fields. As an environmentalist its nice to see that even in small town America, there are some real sustainability initiatives. Hopefully the trees of my childhood stand for a long time and continue to tell their stories.</p>
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<p>One takeaway from this is that I would like to learn how to identify trees better. They live long, venerable lives and tell such stories that it seems only appropriate to learn more about them. Furthermore I am inspired to visit sacred groves and give offerings more to nature spirits to deepen my religious faith. This might seem such a strange takeaway to an outsider but for me it was a deeply fulfilling experience that left my mind at ease and my heart full. Though people move away, businesses close and things change, the memories were made here. That energy of human experience in one place remains with us so long as we remain and even afterwards, in the descendants of those people. I hope that everyone reading can find those places that put them truly in sync with themselves where they can reflect on the beauty in our world.</p>
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<p>Summer Solstice, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.learnreligions.com/guide-to-celebrating-litha-2562231">also known as Litha</a>, is less than twenty four hours upon us as of my writing. You wouldn’t know it based on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/millions-set-to-swelter-as-intense-heat-builds-for-summer-solstice/1204496">record heatwave</a> many of us have been facing in the center of the country! Climate change continues its ravages across the world, heavily distorting the seasons in many parts of the globe but that discussion could take up many blog posts, I will set it aside for now.</p>
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<p>As is part of my faith, seasonal transitions are a big deal because not only is the world changing around me but its a good time to reflect back and look and what’s happened. This past spring, my son was born and has been in my life for nearly two months, I traveled to Vegas and to Denver to witness a childhood friend get married to the love of his life. I’ve introduced my son to many people and began showing him the world around us. I’ve <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://zoness.me/2022/06/old-places-and-liminal-spaces/">visited old childhood locations</a> to relieve memories and focus on the way forward.</p>
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<p>Summer is a time of tremendous abundance, warm weather, long days and celebrations. I have many of those coming up; family weddings, birthdays, children’s milestones and parties for all manner of occasions. Bittersweet good-byes to friends on their next adventures to other states and surely more things I don’t yet know about.</p>
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<p>The colors of this season are green and yellow, for the world of growth and the sun. When I dress my altar in these colors its a reflection of what the summer means to me. It’s a remembrance of what has been in summers past and in summers to come. It’s anticipation for celebration, vitality, life and thriving in a bright and changing world. It’s a call to action to preserve our planet. The seasons are getting harsher due to human inflicted damage to our world; droughts, storms, floods and fires all becoming more and more frequent.</p>
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<p>However it is also a time of tremendous optimism too. Something about this season refreshes me and makes me feel like we can tackle anything as both a society and me as an individual. My paternity leave is coming to an end, I am considering changes in my career to move onto the next big thing. For now, however I am feeling the spark of joy returning a bit to programming. Not to work per se, but to furthering my own skills and growing my career legacy. I am more motivated now than ever with my son in my life to provide the best for him. Somewhat auspiciously (yet ironically, given he was born in April): my son’s name is a reference to a sun sign. Surely he will also love the summer! I can’t wait for him to be old enough to enjoy our walks, playing games, swimming in pools and shooting off fireworks with his friends.</p>
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<p>These seasonal changes are a stark reminder that time is my most valuable asset, and to enjoy every moment that I have in this world because they won’t last forever. But rather than dwelling on that, I’d rather dwell on the new season ahead of us and show my excitement and joy at what is to come.</p>
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<p>For now I leave you with these reflections but I say blessed be and happy summer!</p>
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<p>Unless you live outside of the United States, it would be impossible to ignore the news of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/blog/supreme-court-abortion-live-updates-roe-v-wade-rcna35149">Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade</a>. Republicans, Christian nationalists and reactionary conservatives have been pining for it since decades before I was born. Rather than lament the disastrous path that women’s rights in this country is headed down, because rant I can, I am going to focus in on a specific harrowing problem.</p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism">Surveillance Capitalism</a>. Broadly, its the concept of using and commodifying personal data collected from our digital lives specifically for making <em>profit</em>. I go out of the way to make this distinction because as a technologist and software developer myself, I am not afraid technology nor the data it collects. I specifically advocate for control over my data, an understanding of who is using it an the desire for the ability to easily opt out. Bonus points for other wish list items like higher interoperability between digital systems.</p>
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<p>Rather than bogging us down in technical jargon let’s look at the very real impact this decision has on women. Overturning Roe officially sends the decision on abortion back to the states. Based on their legislatures this means that a simple majority of states are likely to make any form of abortion de facto or de jure illegal.</p>
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<p>With the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-abortion-law-bounty-hunters-citizens/">Texas anti-abortion law allowing individuals to bounty hunt for women seeking abortions</a>; we can see downstream impacts not only from government or corporate abuses but also individuals.</p>
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<p>Last month, as it became increasingly clear that constitutional abortion protections would soon be eliminated, EFF <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/what-companies-can-do-now-protect-digital-rights-post-roe-world">warned</a> that “service providers can expect a raft of subpoenas and warrants seeking user data that could be employed to prosecute abortion seekers, providers, and helpers.”</p>
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<p>The online civil liberties organization also told technology firms to “expect pressure to aggressively police the use of their services,” along with new demands to hand over information to law enforcement as this data “may be classified in many states as facilitating a crime.”</p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/24/big_tech_post_roe_wade">Big Tech silent on data privacy in post-Roe America</a>, The Register (Fri. June 24, 2022)</p>
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<p>The dangers are evident even in seemingly innocent <em>metadata</em>. That is, the information surrounding your actual activity such as timestamps, to and from fields like emails and phone numbers, hardware models, location, length of calls etc.</p>
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<p>Sure, anti-abortionists may not <em>know</em> that you sought an abortion with certainty. However, if they can subpoena Google for your location data and search history that would be enough to prove at least some basic intent. Even fewer data points could incriminate you, in fact. Perhaps you had your phone records subpoenaed and all anyone could tell was a woman making a phone call to an out of state number that is a known abortion provider. Sure we don’t <em>know</em> the contents of the phone call but we damn well guess. The same way we don’t know what you said on the phone to the Chinese restaurant but we can reasonably infer the service you sought.</p>
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<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) puts out good information about securing your digital life and I’d recommend their primer on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/security-and-privacy-tips-people-seeking-abortion">security and privacy for people seeking abortion</a>. They have many guides and are current on the most pressing issues facing our digital privacy and I greatly appreciate the work they do.</p>
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<p><strong>Well if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, right?</strong> This classic argument is trotted out anytime someone complains about the gross expansion of the surveillance state. Surely, they think, nobody would ever dare come for them! America has free speech after all, right? As demonstrated above, something once legal has now become illegal in the United States. What’s next, contraception, gay marriage? <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/clarence-thomas-roe-gay-marriage-contraception-lgbtq">Justice Thomas Clarence has said that we should revisit the court decisions enumerating the legality of those items</a>. What else could potentially be on the docket? How much of this information such as condom purchases or, more irrevocably, people coming out as LGBTQ online is impossible to bottle back up?</p>
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<p>America’s polarizing political climate means that elections are won on paper thin margins. Social media and our culture has exacerbated deep wounds that make us suspicious and more partisan than ever. These things present real risks to people who are vulnerable to authoritarian crackdowns. The government can function as a force for good, and its good to have a tool that lacks the specific profit motive of private companies with massive resources. However, political regimes don’t last long and the tides change very quickly. A politically friendly executive branch may only last four years and a legislature much less. Governmental organizations can take on more militaristic views, similar to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/police-militarization">police militarization</a> which creates a general adversarial approach to the citizenry. These abuses need not even be systematic, look for example, at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://web.archive.org/web/20140401212529/http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests/">LOVEINT scandal</a> at the NSA where agents were using government resources to stalk love interests.</p>
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<p>It’s tempting to see the private sector as the savior here but they’re just as bad. A very large number of enterprise and private IT workloads (exceeding 80%) already have some presence in the clouds of only a few very large providers: Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://news.yahoo.com/ex-amazon-employee-convicted-over-130248248.html">An Amazon software developer was recently convicted of stealing data from Capital One.</a> It’s reasonable to assume that there are many such cases that go undetected because they’re targeted at specific users or small customers. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/2022/summary-of-findings/">Verizon’s 2022 data breach report shows that over 80% of bad actors steal data for financial reasons.</a> The financial incentives get stronger as more and more of our data is centralized in a few private firms.</p>
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<p>There’s a lot here to doom over, and while its tempting to see the tide as totally insurmountable, I do not think we’re totally past the point of no return. In culture, data privacy is starting to pick up some steam. We’ve seen the GDPR in Europe and CCPA in California act as some simple backstops allowing us to delete more of our data from these providers. There’s simple things that the tech savvy people in our lives, myself included, can do to help. We can educate without inundating, we can set up simple alternatives or better default settings for family and friends. We can offer up discussions and opportunities to try new things. We can apply political pressure to crack down on bad actors AND beat back authoritarians at the ballot box.</p>
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<p>In the future posts I will elaborate on some specific ways to address some of these topics. I will attempt to categorize them as beginner, intermediate and advanced in terms of complexity to implement. I am also working on some code solutions to offer to our most technical users.</p>
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<p>These are trying times where people’s lives may be at risk and technology is going away. It’s better to embrace the good and throw out the bad, but we must be swift and discerning and vigilant.</p>
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<p>Unless you live outside of the United States, it would be impossible to ignore the news of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/blog/supreme-court-abortion-live-updates-roe-v-wade-rcna35149">Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade</a>. Republicans, Christian nationalists and reactionary conservatives have been pining for it since decades before I was born. Rather than lament the disastrous path that women’s rights in this country is headed down, because rant I can, I am going to focus in on a specific harrowing problem.</p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism">Surveillance Capitalism</a>. Broadly, its the concept of using and commodifying personal data collected from our digital lives specifically for making <em>profit</em>. I go out of the way to make this distinction because as a technologist and software developer myself, I am not afraid technology nor the data it collects. I specifically advocate for control over my data, an understanding of who is using it an the desire for the ability to easily opt out. Bonus points for other wish list items like higher interoperability between digital systems.</p>
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<p>Rather than bogging us down in technical jargon let’s look at the very real impact this decision has on women. Overturning Roe officially sends the decision on abortion back to the states. Based on their legislatures this means that a simple majority of states are likely to make any form of abortion de facto or de jure illegal.</p>
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<p>With the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-abortion-law-bounty-hunters-citizens/">Texas anti-abortion law allowing individuals to bounty hunt for women seeking abortions</a>; we can see downstream impacts not only from government or corporate abuses but also individuals.</p>
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<p>Last month, as it became increasingly clear that constitutional abortion protections would soon be eliminated, EFF <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/what-companies-can-do-now-protect-digital-rights-post-roe-world">warned</a> that “service providers can expect a raft of subpoenas and warrants seeking user data that could be employed to prosecute abortion seekers, providers, and helpers.”</p>
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<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/24/big_tech_post_roe_wade">Big Tech silent on data privacy in post-Roe America</a>, The Register (Fri. June 24, 2022)</p>
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<p>The dangers are evident even in seemingly innocent <em>metadata</em>. That is, the information surrounding your actual activity such as timestamps, to and from fields like emails and phone numbers, hardware models, location, length of calls etc.</p>
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<p>Sure, anti-abortionists may not <em>know</em> that you sought an abortion with certainty. However, if they can subpoena Google for your location data and search history that would be enough to prove at least some basic intent. Even fewer data points could incriminate you, in fact. Perhaps you had your phone records subpoenaed and all anyone could tell was a woman making a phone call to an out of state number that is a known abortion provider. Sure we don’t <em>know</em> the contents of the phone call but we damn well guess. The same way we don’t know what you said on the phone to the Chinese restaurant but we can reasonably infer the service you sought.</p>
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<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) puts out good information about securing your digital life and I’d recommend their primer on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/security-and-privacy-tips-people-seeking-abortion">security and privacy for people seeking abortion</a>. They have many guides and are current on the most pressing issues facing our digital privacy and I greatly appreciate the work they do.</p>
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<p><strong>Well if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, right?</strong> This classic argument is trotted out anytime someone complains about the gross expansion of the surveillance state. Surely, they think, nobody would ever dare come for them! America has free speech after all, right? As demonstrated above, something once legal has now become illegal in the United States. What’s next, contraception, gay marriage? <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/clarence-thomas-roe-gay-marriage-contraception-lgbtq">Justice Thomas Clarence has said that we should revisit the court decisions enumerating the legality of those items</a>. What else could potentially be on the docket? How much of this information such as condom purchases or, more irrevocably, people coming out as LGBTQ online is impossible to bottle back up?</p>
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<p>America’s polarizing political climate means that elections are won on paper thin margins. Social media and our culture has exacerbated deep wounds that make us suspicious and more partisan than ever. These things present real risks to people who are vulnerable to authoritarian crackdowns. The government can function as a force for good, and its good to have a tool that lacks the specific profit motive of private companies with massive resources. However, political regimes don’t last long and the tides change very quickly. A politically friendly executive branch may only last four years and a legislature much less. Governmental organizations can take on more militaristic views, similar to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/police-militarization">police militarization</a> which creates a general adversarial approach to the citizenry. These abuses need not even be systematic, look for example, at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://web.archive.org/web/20140401212529/http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests/">LOVEINT scandal</a> at the NSA where agents were using government resources to stalk love interests.</p>
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<p>It’s tempting to see the private sector as the savior here but they’re just as bad. A very large number of enterprise and private IT workloads (exceeding 80%) already have some presence in the clouds of only a few very large providers: Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://news.yahoo.com/ex-amazon-employee-convicted-over-130248248.html">An Amazon software developer was recently convicted of stealing data from Capital One.</a> It’s reasonable to assume that there are many such cases that go undetected because they’re targeted at specific users or small customers. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230706143216/https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/2022/summary-of-findings/">Verizon’s 2022 data breach report shows that over 80% of bad actors steal data for financial reasons.</a> The financial incentives get stronger as more and more of our data is centralized in a few private firms.</p>
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<p>There’s a lot here to doom over, and while its tempting to see the tide as totally insurmountable, I do not think we’re totally past the point of no return. In culture, data privacy is starting to pick up some steam. We’ve seen the GDPR in Europe and CCPA in California act as some simple backstops allowing us to delete more of our data from these providers. There’s simple things that the tech savvy people in our lives, myself included, can do to help. We can educate without inundating, we can set up simple alternatives or better default settings for family and friends. We can offer up discussions and opportunities to try new things. We can apply political pressure to crack down on bad actors AND beat back authoritarians at the ballot box.</p>
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<p>In the future posts I will elaborate on some specific ways to address some of these topics. I will attempt to categorize them as beginner, intermediate and advanced in terms of complexity to implement. I am also working on some code solutions to offer to our most technical users.</p>
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<p>These are trying times where people’s lives may be at risk and technology is going away. It’s better to embrace the good and throw out the bad, but we must be swift and discerning and vigilant.</p>
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<p>The blog has been quiet lately because I’ve been mired in a well over a month long major work effort at my job. As a software developer responsible for a platform used by thousands, I’ve had a lot of work to deliver lately. On top of the late work nights, on call times, desperate panicked calls and more; my son is fourth months old and hitting a famous growth spurt. With that growth spurt comes a major sleep regression. We haven’t slept through the night in weeks and weeks as we were doing in July.</p>
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<p>All of this has made my wife and I feel very frayed. She’s low on sleep, I am low on sleep and our baby has advancing needs. Between work and home it can feel like too much. As a result, I am working harder to ground myself. To bring myself back to a stable baseline where I can feel like a normal person again.</p>
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<p>Earlier this week I got some alone time to get high and play videos and boy was that a relief! NOTE that I am not suggesting one do this to run from your problems, but it was a nice opportunity to clear my head. My work has a developer is very mentally intensive and there’s this sort of burning persistent “brain fuzz” that lingers on too much intensive work combined with little sleep. Such personal time helped me get grounded again.</p>
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<p>Furthermore I also lean on my religious practice. As its very nature oriented it helps me get outside and look at the world around me. For awhile, spreadsheets, emails and codebases fade into the background. I am not obsessing about “velocity” or SCRUM or Agile methodologies. Just me and the outdoor world.</p>
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<p>I am also trying to make more room in my life again for events. Family events mostly but also those with friends. I am preserving more memories in the form of photos that can be easily referenced in the future. I want to preserve a legacy for myself and for my family and this also has a grounding effect as well.</p>
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<p>Another sort of obscure one is family history and ancient places. As I grow older, my memories and experiences of the past fade more into the background. I am getting better at learning about my family, the places they spent time and also where I spent time as a kid. I am very “geo-focused” and interested in visiting different places in the world where memories are made.</p>
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<p>Everyone is different and nothing is perfect but I am working hard and being my best self as a new father, a husband, a software developer and a citizen of the world but sometimes I need some personal grounding.</p>
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