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I started API Evangelist because people were telling me I was doing the REST API thing wrong, and being pretty shitty about it along the way. I don’t mind being corrected, but when the RESTafarians in 2010 were telling me I was doing APIs wrong and none of them were helping me learn the “right way”—-I wanted a way to push back in my own way. It is what made me spend the next decade helping guide people in a positive direction when it comes to doing APIs. While I am fully aware that I can also be mean from time to time, and I struggle to always be super helpful, I work hard to try and center my work in reinforcing positive behaviors and outcomes when it comes to doing APIs in this often chaotic digital world we all operate in.

From music to screenwriting and science fiction, creative industries share many of the same concerns about generative AI.

“Well, Congressman, I view our responsibility as not just building services that people like to use, but making sure that those services are also

Breaking through the illusion of convenience that's used to sell us automation

The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

Since its launch, the plan has provided financial stability for parents and programs across the province. Could it also take root in the U.S.?

The Magellans of the Sky departed from what’s now Magnuson Park in 1924 to complete the first around-the-world trip.

My experiences and struggles with the corporate world and what I learned about myself. How to be happy when not fitting in.

Nokia looks a more diplomatic choice at Digicel

The First Birth Control Handbook, Written by a Group of Teenagers in 1968 - Uncategorized - Messy Nessy Chic

While digging into volcanic eruptions and grizzly bears, Mossback’s Northwest host Knute Berger found that the past has a lot to say.

Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate results that will get you to buy more stuff.

To Christopher Rufo, a term for a school of legal scholarship looked like the perfect weapon.

Data in the 21st Century is like Oil in the 18th Century: an immensely, untapped valuable asset. Like oil, for those who see Data’s fundamental value and learn to extract and use it there will be huge rewards. We’re in a digital economy where data is more valuable than ever. It’s the key to the…

Treating data like a commodity has led some governments to hoard it in silos, locked behind borders. The result: dwindling economic and social benefits.

The data economy demands a new approach to antitrust rules

Measuring—and delivering—what consumers really want

Henry VIII, after Hans Holbein the Younger It's fun to imagine traveling back in time and engaging with the then-prevailing technologies. Wo...

Do you want Immortan Joes? Because this is how you get Immortan Joes. One thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water: In its latest environmental report, Microsoft disclosed that its global water consumption spiked 34% from 2021 to 2022, to nearly 1.7 billion gallons [...] "It's fair to say the majority of the growth is due to AI," including "its heavy ...

I am tired. Exhausted from struggling and imagining a better world. I have given up, in a way. Yet I am cheery.

Voters deserve far better than the decrepit Democrats and Republicans.

Citizens’ Assemblies convene people from all walks of life to deal with tough political questions like abortion and climate policy

Passion is a state of mind that can't be objectively measured, yet many bosses believe they can spot a passionate employee.

It took firms decades to adjust to electricity by redesigning factories, products, and workflows to take full advantage of the new possibilities. Similarly, the benefits of work from home start to come most profoundly when expensive offices can be shrunk, employers can draw from a much larger pool of workers and workers can adjust when […]