All of which is to say
1) What looks like inertia might be preparation for something big.
2) Be nice to your sysadmin. They have the potential to do great things.
Yesterday I had cause to remember that I once had a somewhat disaffected CS student in a lit class at a small liberal arts college out west. After graduation, that student stuck around for quite a while, working as a sysadmin on campus. We somewhat despaired of his inertia.
At some point he did break away, though, and went to work for a Silicon Valley megacorp, and a very few years later found himself in federal service. Where he led the team that saved Obamacare. +
In keeping with my desire to move more of my digital life off of problematic platforms, I’m migrating my personal email from Gmail to a domain I own, hosted via Proton Mail. The primary challenge to this process is going to be Google Docs, I think. Unless my various collaborators make the switch, I’m kinda stuck with it.
racism
“Correct our population for race” is just a hell of a thing to let people know you’re thinking. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/bill-cassidy-maternal-mortality-rates
After a ridiculous week of meetings and presentations, I'm in my reading chair with a cup of coffee and a pile of books, and thunderstorms rolling in. Things could be a lot worse. #gratitude
That last post encourages me to do a bit of #introduction: I direct a #DH research center and academic program at Michigan State University. My official credentials say I'm a professor of English, but I'm currently writing about the present failures, and future demands, of academic #leadership.
"We have a very expensive workforce and bosses who aren't sure what's getting done. Watch how quick every exec team on the planet starts talking about accountability." Johnathan and Melissa of Raw Signal Group, https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=c5c0614e6c57b2af2259dc51a&id=23d6b45c7b
Waaaaaait a second, @dan -- you're hosting your own instance? TELL ME MORE.
Director of DH@MSU, Director of MESH Research, Director of Humanities Commons. Seeker of open platforms, open infrastructure, open governance.