More Pablo: essay

2023-09-17 — Burning Man 2023. (🕑 17 min) Burning Man was the friends we made along the way.
2023-07-19 — Responsible optimism for ML, which is still Programming's Asbestos. (🕑 11 min) AI/LLMs are cool, but few people talking about them seem to understand the breadth and depth of their limitations.
2023-06-13 — 👩‍🎨 Being "rockstars": when software was a talents/creatives industry 🎭. (🕑 15 min) I offer a high-level model for why software work feels like it sucks now: we don't treat software like creative output.
2023-05-14 — 🤠 "Where have all the hackers gone?" + a way to discuss programming languages 👨‍🎤. (🕑 14 min) A way to talk about programming languages, and a plea to Think Different™
2023-05-07 — 🧘 The rest is just as important 🛁. (🕑 11 min) Little life update, what I'm chewing on this set of months
2023-02-28 — 🤖 Fighting over frameworks ⚔️. (🕑 15 min) Folks got mad at each other over JS but I think they're talking past each other, the real issue is accountability.
2023-02-24 — 💅 PhD In "That Partner" Studies 💄. (🕑 6 min) I show off a bunch of weird, horrible knowledge I have, and reflect on heartbreak some more.
2022-09-10 — 💆 Love and Loving ☺️. (🕑 9 min) Noodling on some narratives on love and loving.
2022-07-20 — 🎭 Why Theatre, Pablo? 🗣. (🕑 9 min) Getting in my head about getting in my head, and how theatre helped with that.
2022-07-12 — 🏃‍♂️Early mile markers, long marathon 🎨. (🕑 10 min) General life update on how I'm doing, here in July (!!!) of The Big Rebuild Year.
2022-05-03 — 🥾 Going forward, going for it 🧘‍♂️. (🕑 9 min) NY trip was big, here's a bit more where I'm at now.
2022-03-24 — 📅 2021 in Review 💔. (🕑 16 min) After a long, long hiatus from blogging, I talk about my 2021.
2021-06-10 — 2020 in Review 📅. (🕑 9 min) Better-late-than-never 2020 review post
2020-07-28 — 🌞 California Update 2 🌯. (🕑 6 min) More lifeposting: nostalgia, friends, therapy. A few good links.
2020-01-03 — 2019 in review 📅. (🕑 9 min) Things I did (and didn't) do in 2019.
2019-04-26 — 🤖 Machine Learning: Programming's Asbestos 🧠. (🕑 7 min) Recent Machine Learning advances are cool but IMO pretty overhyped.
2019-01-03 — 2018 in Review 📅. (🕑 8 min) Greatest hits of 2018, looking forward into 2019.
2018-12-08 — Tumblr banning porn 🤦‍♂️. (🕑 6 min) Tumblr is banning porn; I think this is Bad, and part of a few Bad trends.
2018-09-10 — Burning Man 2018 🔥. (🕑 8 min) I went to Burning Man and here's a lot of text and photos.
2018-08-18 — Huevo con Chorizo 🍳. (🕑 2 min) I wrote about my lunch for the office once.
2018-08-18 — Weight, bodies, agency, and a few good months 📉. (🕑 8 min) I lost some weight after making some changes, rather happy with it.
2018-05-14 — Stop lionizing Elon Musk 🤡. (🕑 5 min) If you admire Elon Musk I think you're wrong, or at least focus on the wrong things.
2018-03-12 — NYer article on communities, social media. (🕑 3 min) Don't say "there are no good solutions," there are.
2018-02-19 — Millenials, Attention Spans, Discourse, Creepers. (🕑 6 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto;">
2018-02-08 — 🗣 Meetings, Part 2: Behind the symptom. (🕑 6 min) <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
2018-02-01 — 🗣 Meetings, Part 1: Leaders and Org Worms. (🕑 6 min) _🎵 The song for this post is [Survivor][9], by Destiny's Child 🎵._
2018-01-28 — Pablo seeking a date in 2016. (🕑 6 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-23 — Services, monoliths, modularity. (🕑 8 min) A people perspective to why so many startups wanna Microservice, and why I think this isn't the right call.
2018-01-18 — That consumption life: Culture Lectures. (🕑 5 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-16 — Paper worlds, the heroes who inhabit them. (🕑 3 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-10 — ⛓ＢＬＯＣＫＣＨＡＩＮ⛓. (🕑 4 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2018-01-07 — Feeling good when you're feeling bad. (🕑 4 min) <div class="caption-img-block" style="margin: 25px auto">
2017-12-30 — 2017 in Review. (🕑 7 min) I've done this twice recently ([2015][1], [2016][2]), let's do it for 2017!
2017-12-20 — Two anecdotes about culture. (🕑 3 min) Here are two little anecdotes about companies and culture, apropos of nothing.
2017-06-05 — 2016 in review. (🕑 10 min) **I wrote most of this on the last day of 2016. Then I put it down and forgot
2016-08-18 — Six Months of Managing. (🕑 9 min) It's been a pretty momentous few months for me at [Reonomy][1]. Like I mentioned
2016-01-02 — 2015 in review. (🕑 10 min) Let's _blog_ blog this one, and talk about what my life is like for a bit. Like
2015-07-05 — Using Erlang. (🕑 8 min) _The following is [cross-posted with the Ghostlight blog.](http://blog.ghostlight.io/erlang/)_
2014-02-23 — Why I Play StarCraft. (🕑 4 min) Last year my cousin Diego posted a Facebook status along the lines of "dude...
2013-12-24 — The Magic and Tension of The Room. (🕑 5 min) [_The Room_][1] is one of the most entertaining and engrossing movies I've seen
2013-12-04 — Joss Whedon, the word Feminist. (🕑 10 min) \[Disclaimer: I benefit from virtually every type of privilege society grants:
2013-10-18 — On Depression (mine). (🕑 9 min) <a href="http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=12052006"><img src="/img/2013/10/beef_toast_cropped.gif" alt="Roast Beef, trouble with toast" style="float:right; margin: 15px 0 15px 15px" /></a>
2013-09-19 — Death to Simple Narratives. (🕑 3 min) I've never been partial to mantras or aphorisms, but one has stuck with me for
2013-09-17 — BioShock: Infinite. (🕑 5 min) When I upgraded my video card, a [BioShock: Infinite][1] key came with the
2012-12-18 — Stream Ads. (🕑 11 min) <em><small>Originally written on December 18, Newtown hit me very hard, then I
2012-12-14 — Shootings. (🕑 5 min) <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
2012-01-17 — Testing, and the lost art of the manual. (🕑 8 min) Note: I edited a bunch of this language to be a bit more, uh, fair. Looking
2011-03-24 — Kill Null. (🕑 4 min) The other day, I
2010-12-07 — STOP IT WITH YOUR STATE. (🕑 4 min) Alright forks, time for some smugness. I know, on this blog?!? But bear with me.
2010-08-14 — Making a living being an artist. (🕑 5 min) This blog seems to have veered from [code][1] and [cute whimsy][2] to
2010-03-21 — On Jazz, popularity. (🕑 6 min) Another not-very-hackery article on Hacker News caught my attention.