seanstickle
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Theory of Constraints enthusiast, autodidactic philomath, APL/Perl/Ruby programmer.
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Comment · 3 years ago
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) | Director, Information Systems | REMOTE (US) | Full-Time
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
Hiring an IT Director to lead 2 Salesforce admins, 3 software developers (PHP/Laravel), 2 sysadmins (1 general, 1 call center). Working directly for the COO (me).
Needs strong empathy, management, tech skills.
Full details: https://seanstickle.notion.site/Director-of-Information-Syst...
You can reach out to me directly at https://twitter.com/seanstickle
Comment · 5 years ago
National Alliance on Mental Illness | Arlington, VA (REMOTE) | Full stack web app developer | Full-time | $80,000-$95,000 DOE
We're a 501(c)(3) nonprofit association that provides advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.
We're hiring a software developer to help us build a variety of applications using PHP & Laravel.
You'll need experience with any of the following: Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Django, or something similar.
Full details here: https://www.notion.so/seanstickle/Software-developer-at-NAMI...
Apply here: https://nami.applicantpro.com/jobs/1633027.html
Comment · 5 years ago
Here's a list of the Great Books of the Western World, which is a pretty good place to start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...
Comment · 6 years ago
At St. John's College (back in the 90's anyways), we called this "teaching science and math historically" (as opposed to teaching the history of science and math -- which tends to emphasize dates and names).
By telling the story of science and math, we gained the context of who did what for what reasons. Which unlocked my understanding of science and math in a way that textbooks never did.
Comment · 6 years ago
A good history of where modern JavaScript comes from (from old school to webpack and babel).
https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/modern-javascript-...
Helped me understand the how and why of webpack.
Comment · 7 years ago
Solar United Neighbors | IT Generalist | Full-time | Washington, DC | ONSITE or REMOTE | https://www.solarunitedneighbors.org
Women, minorities, people with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.
Solar United Neighbors is a national nonprofit that organizes local communities around the country to go solar, join together, and fight for their energy rights.
We’re growing fast -- really fast. We’re expanding into new states, building new partnerships, and offering new services. That kind of growth requires a great IT infrastructure to help our members and supporters organize and advocate for solar at the state and national level. Your job is to help build the infrastructure that powers our growth.
IN THE FIRST YEAR, you can expect to work on projects that include:
- Work with our Go Solar team to CUSTOMIZE SALESFORCE to support new product lines and workflows, streamline their workload, and increase our ability to report on campaign performance.
- UPGRADE OUR COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (mass email, advocacy, event management, donations) to a more effective and flexible system (or systems) and integrate them with both our websites and with SalesForce.
- Work with our Growth team to REBUILD OUR WEBSITES to be more user-friendly, accessible, and effective at engaging our community of solar supporters.
- Work with our Engagement Director to DEVELOP WEB APPLICATIONS that automate the internal workflow for our two major national solar awareness campaigns -- Brews from the Sun and the National Solar Tour.
We’ve gone all-in with WordPress for our websites, so you need to know your way around WORDPRESS (and PHP in general) really well. Most of our core business logic lives in SALESFORCE, so you need to know how to customize SalesForce (custom objects, reports, workflows). Deploying and managing the servers will be your responsibility, so you need to be effective on the LINUX command line. And we have some data analysis projects on deck, so you need to be comfortable setting up DATABASES and writing SQL queries.
Just as important as all those technical skills -- maybe more! -- you need to be a COMMITTED TEAM PLAYER who is ready to shoulder responsibility, find the opportunity hidden in every problem, and build other people up.
Finally, you need to bring a commitment to innovation and continuous improvement. We’re huge fans of applying the LEAN STARTUP model to our work -- building quick prototypes to test our ideas in the real world, collecting data to measure how well those ideas perform, and learning from that data so we can make the next version even better. If you bring data analysis skills, that’s a huge plus. Either way, an “ALWAYS BE TESTING” attitude is required.
You'll report directly to the VP OF GROWTH (me) and work with a committed and brilliant team of communications experts, policy wonks, digital marketers, and community organizers on projects with ambitious goals and aggressive deadlines. Full details here: https://www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit-job/b37efcac8ec14283ba...
Comment · 8 years ago
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics tackles happiness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics
"Let us resume our inquiry and state, in view of the fact that all knowledge and every pursuit aims at some good, what it is that we say political science aims at and what is the highest of all goods achievable by action. Verbally there is very general agreement; for both the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness, and identify living well and doing well with being happy; but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise."
Comment · 8 years ago
For those that like to mess around with the J programming language, here is what I believe is correct code to generate this parallax compression pattern.
pack =: 3 : '+./ (r,y+1) $ (npc*y+1) {. (npc*y) }. p' "0
pc =: 3 : 0
r =: npc =: y
c =: +/ 1+i.y
p =: 1 p: (1+i.c*npc)
pack i.r
)
Comment · 10 years ago
Sounds like Reid Hoffman's book "The Alliance". Good read.
Comment · 10 years ago
Star Maker was written by Olaf Stapledon.
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Maker-Olaf-Stapledon/dp/148264446...
Comment · 11 years ago
Pretty much any of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...
Comment · 11 years ago
Mostly because I'm an APL snob. Haskell is great.
Comment · 11 years ago
One of my favorite books is "Algebraic Models For Accounting Systems" -- http://www.amazon.com/Algebraic-Models-For-Accounting-System...
Fundamentally this book is about the application of abstract algebra to the analysis of accounting systems.
Add in APL or J (or Haskell if you must) by way of "Algebra: An Algorithmic Treatment" (http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-algorithmic-treatment-Kenneth-...), and you build a quite rigorous proof-based accounting system.