I’ve been an insomniac my whole life. I remember taking long walks as a teenager around my neighborhood in the little hours, just because I was awake and bored. It was kinda romantic. But as …| Derek Powazek
Today I got to participate in a conversation about Blocking in social spaces with a bunch of smart people including Sydette Harry and Georgia Bullen, organized by Dan Hon for his Hallway Track seri…| Derek Powazek
It’s almost 2023. The world is different, the online world is very different, and I’m pushing 50. So I think it’s time we all start talking about online gathering places with a mo…| Derek Powazek
It’s time for these guys to stop playing pretend politics and admit that they’re not presidents, their sites are not countries, and we are not their citizens. They are caretakers of com…| Derek Powazek
AI is not a community management strategy because it’s skipping the hard part of community management: deciding what’s allowed and what’s not. You can’t skip the definition step in community manage…| Derek Powazek
I’ve had depression so long, I don’t know what parts of my personality are it and what parts are me. When I was a teenager, I adopted it as part of my identity. I let it define me. I was just a dar…| Derek Powazek
Dear friends and family, So we’re coming up on the holidays, and you may have started to think about what to get me this year. I’ve never done this before, but this is a year like no ot…| Derek Powazek
This photo was taken in a Displaced Persons Camp in Austria in 1949. That’s my Grandma and Grandpa Powazek with their two sons. That fat kid on the right is my dad, who was born in the camp. …| Derek Powazek
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