**”Digital nomad” is a misleading term since all we do is sit.** Like many pixel-pushers, a huge portion of **my day is spent sedentary, in a state distended from my body.** Parked in front of a computer, channeling thoughts through a keyboard, **I’m rarely aware…
This is a short post, but just wanted to share a few good reads picked up this summer and why I’m enjoying them on the Kindle. # Why the Kindle rocks The Kindle, which I’ve been using heavily since January, has definitely help speed up…
> Yesterday, we convened a virtual meeting of the Global Iron Blogger Council (i.e., an email thread) and we all agreed a new on iron blogger rule that might sweeten the deal for jet-setting prospective Iron Bloggers: **any paid-up member of any Iron Blogger club…
** Update:** A lot of key people have requested to reschedule the speed-geeking because of holiday travels. Since we want to pull this off with the right people in the room, packed and buzzing, we’ve decided to host the event on August 26. All the…
Earlier this month I was kindly invited to talk at **[Hack de Overheid](http://www.hackdeoverheid.nl/), a very well-organized hackathon** in Amsterdam for building apps around open data sets. There were **20-odd governmental organizations and civic institutions pitching their datasets.** The content ranged from cultural data from museums…