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Developing commitment to a cause sounds like a big deal. But it’s a nuanced topic, and it’s time for us to start separating it out from the big issues we’re all supposed to care about.

There is a generation of community organizers who have been working for years to get people out and involved. They’ve toiled to find locations, put together interesting programming, handle other logistics, and encourage people to come to their events. And they’re tired.

Science can’t prove that dark matter exists. They can’t see it or otherwise pinpoint it. Looking at all the available evidence, though, they can be fairly certain that something exists that behaves in certain ways, and so they call it dark matter and continue studying. It’s a relatively common thing Read more

I recently read a friend’s debut novel, which takes place in a Seattle megachurch. While I have no doubt that facets of it were exaggerated for literary effect, it still made me even warier of megachurches. All larger congregations, really.  And before you get nervous, this is not going to Read more

I’m about to pose a question.It’s one I think about quite regularly. I bet you have, too. It’s also a question I genuinely don’t know the answer to. Anyone, and I mean absolutely anyone, who says they have an answer to it is oversimplifying the question for their personal gain. Read more

“Just show up and do good” in our community is leaving organizers burnt out, future leaders without a path forward, and contributing to all of us feeling isolated. I move we bring structure back to our clubs and groups.

What’s the cost of sharing so much data with tech companies? How do you put a price tag on something that seems so nebulous to most of us? Let me ask you something. Do you have a relative or close friend who you now have a strained relationship because they Read more

“If you wish to bake an apple pie from scratch, first you must invent the universe.” I love that quote from Carl Sagan. At its most basic, I find it does a good job of illustrating my personal blessing-and-a-curse ADHD tendency to get caught up looking for connections, causes, and Read more

When I started working on Drover in 2018, I assumed the path forward was the venture capital-funded way of most tech startups. But with time I became aware of a broadening gap between what I wanted to build and the way a tech company was supposed to behave. I tucked it away as a crazy idea for a while, but it was like an itch that I could never quite free myself of. I needed to do something about it. So here goes. I’ve decided to build Drover as an open source project, with the hope of making it a nonprofit if needed to handle managing it.