Culture

After 11+ years working as a software engineer, sharing teams with lots of different people, diverse environments, languages and cultures, I realized that the most important learnings I got from it are related to soft skills and awareness. Let me share them with you ?

An in-progress work: archeology of the soon to be extinct electronic voting systems and anthropology of the people developing a better path

This research investigates smart learning journeys - ad-hoc real world journeys of a series of augmented reality enhanced features with a common theme or topic. Using free mobile apps and a map, this is creative autonomous future-present learning in urban connected learning cities.

中华料理的菜色，如星星一般千变万化。 ⸺《中华一番》

The new book from Roman Krznaric telling the remarkable story of Guatemala’s wealthy economic elite or ‘oligarchy’ – in their own words.

This book is an ongoing scholarly exploration of how we think and talk about violent labor - about work that requires violence. There are chapters on video games, troop entertainment, war autobiographies, and radicalization, with more to come.

Fairy Economics # 007 : A Social Media Study Suggestion # 007 and # 007a, an Addition to The Fairy Contract, a Fairy Economics: A Social Media Study Suggestion by Lauren Liu.

ANTI-CRIME MEASURES  presents 35 protective initiatives which an individual may employ to protect his or her home, family, property, and business from the ravages of crime.  Be safe with ANTI-CRIME MEASURES!

Are you angry about the state of child protection on planet Earth? Read this and share.

Every child is taught not to do what our governing entities do at the highest levels on a vast scale: bully, fight, trick, cheat, point, threaten violence, pick out some classmates you don’t like and make their lives hell, start a cult and take over student government, build a network of spies and then blackmail your friends to achieve your goals.

Should the word "Intelligence" replace the word "Spy"? Do you really think there is a "Blue Church"? Do you enjoy it when the word "Bitch" is thrown into every other sentence? Have you noticed the meaning of some of your favorite words slowly changing, perhaps even degenerating? If so, read this book.

Menyusur Tutur Batik Blitar is all about Blitar in sheets of batik cloths. It is all about how batik cloth tells the story from time to time, generation to generation, heart to heart. Batik of Blitar is more than just a cloth, this is a tale from the people and nature of Blitar.

The book is mostly about ongoing lynchings in modern Kenya—their ethnography (they are, among other things, savage), their history (they mushroomed ca. 1991 to continuing high numbers), their documentation (by means of the linked Kenya Lynchings Database), USDOS country reports on human rights practices as a poor source of statistics on them (shame on us Americans). The last addendum includes summaries of some December 2025-February 2026 lynchings-related articles that see brought to 3,568 the number of lynched persons reported about at least minimally by KLD materials. What may shock most readers, hopefully into constructive action, is how much worse a problem with lynchings at least several African countries have, numerically speaking, than the US has had for its entire recorded lynchings history—e.g., 508 for Kenya for 1993, 543 for 2011, 579 or close to it for 2025; 2,124 for South Africa for FY 2022/23; 11,140 for Uganda for just twenty of the years 2001-2024; 16,962 for Tanzania for 1996-2015.

The first English-language anthropological monograph on any of Central Africa's Mangbetu. Meegye-Mangbetu death compensations as intergroup rites of passage, perpetual alliance thereby possible among structurally-hostile groups. A scholarly-popular dissertation revision with fun asides, over 320 photos. Foreword by Mangbetu scholar Stefano Allovio.