Portfolio

Long time since I've posted, but only because I've been busy! Over the holiday break I've been rebuilding my personal website. I have a lot of frustrations with recent trends in web design: pages t...

I'm speaking with my colleague Zhamak, the creator of Data Mesh, about the importance of self-service platform capabilities in the data mesh context. You should join! https://www.thoughtworks.com/e...

I spoke with my friend Molly about the danger of organizing with violent fascists to achieve your economic political objectives. https://therealnews.com/matthew-heimbach-and-the-lefts-vulnerability...

I'm on stage in a couple hours to talk about Data Mesh, Data Products, and SLOs at BigData EU! https://bigdataconference.eu/emily-gorcenski/

This Wednesday! I'll be joining my colleagues to discuss Thoughtworks' Looking Glass report and how it fits in with today's data-driven and digital-first businesses. Sign up below! https://www.brig...

And now something a little fun. I joined my friends Penelope and Jamey on their podcast, Stationary and Sassy, to talk about Fast and the Furious, early-2000s German B-movies, and the pop cultural ...

My talk on the new White Supremacy in Europe and the US from the FLUID Festival at World Pride Copenhagen is online! I had a ton of fun talking about how we need to revisit our models of hate and b...

I was a minor contributor to the inimitable Kathleen Belew's forthcoming book, A Field Guide to White Supremacy. It's a collection of essays by leading scholars on what white supremacy and extremis...

I’m on the FLUID stage this afternoon at 1530 at World Pride in Copenhagen. I’ll be talking about the new models of white supremacy we need to combat hate in the complex social landscape of the 202...

I joined Bold Dominion again to talk about the impact of Unite the Right four years after the event. I'm honored to join Jalane Schmidt and Sally Hudson, two of the most brilliant and powerful peop...

Day 2 of a client hackathon. We're building a data product using Data Mesh principles. Rather than thinking about data as a left-to-right, source-to-consumer model, we design data products outside-...

Working today on a client hackathon! We're going to see if we can build a proper continuously-delivered data product end-to-end in two days. I haven't written proper code in a while, so I'm excited...

I found out recently that a podcast episode that I was a guest on has won a Hometown Media Award for "Democracy in Action" in the Community Radio division! I'm always really happy to contribute to ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, in-person instruction for everyone from kindergarten students to adult cooking classes came to a halt. Of course, language-learning was no exception, and the pandemi...

Playing with some new camera equipment to shoot a short promo video for my upcoming talk at Big Data EU next month. I’ll be talking about how to build great data products using SLO theory to drive ...

Got my B1 Certificate from Goethe Institut. Don’t tell anyone, I’m going to have to speak German more if they find out.

I'll be speaking next weekend at World Pride Copenhagen! I'll be talking about contemporary extremism and how it evolves online and the ways that online behaviors manifest in real world consequence...

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