Adaptive Leadership for Technical Projects

Mark Robert Henderson lives in coastal Massachusetts and works for the creators of OrbitDB. The best way to reach him is via e-mail.

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Published 19 December, 2018 ｜ IPFS, IPNS, Private IPFS Networks

The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) has two modes of operation: the public (default), and private. A private IPFS network is a collection…

Published 06 December, 2018 ｜ IPFS, IPNS

An email came in! Huzzah!! Omar asks: “Is mrh.io relying on IPFS? If the answer is yes, could you say how is it that fast?” Omar and I had a…

Published 05 December, 2018 ｜ IPFS, Docker

Don’t want to install go, and can’t even be bothered with the tool? If you’ve got Docker installed, let’s do this. Setting Up the Docker…

Published 24 August, 2018 ｜ IPFS, IPNS

I am now publishing my dotfiles [1] at https://df.mrh.io . After explaining the simple and perhaps obvious benefits, this post details a…

Published 11 August, 2018 ｜ local, politics, education

The Waldorf School at Moraine Farm in Beverly, MA has recently changed their governance structure from consensus-based to more top-down…

Published 24 January, 2018 ｜ IPFS, OrbitDB

I’ve had my eye on the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) project for since at least 2016. It’s the brand-new, content-addressed, non…

Published 18 January, 2018 ｜ AI, tech ethics

An email came in recently where the sender referenced both Isaac Asimov’s famous Three Rules of Robotics and Stuart Russell’s updated “…

Published 17 January, 2018 ｜ podcasting, transcription, AWS

Transcribing podcasts is one of the most painstaking and time-consuming parts of being a podcaster. I was delighted when I recieved the…

Published 19 November, 2017 ｜ e-commerce, Shopify

There are two types of customer-driven pricing schemes: “Name your own price” and “Pay what you want.” The difference is that in the latter…

Published 29 June, 2017 ｜ reference

If you’ve ever looked through scientific papers, trade journals, or data sets you’ve likely encountered a Digital Object Identifier. This…

Published 06 June, 2017 ｜ local

How many of you have seen the movie Manchester-by-the-Sea? That’s where I live — in the seaside hamlet of the same name. It shares region of…

Published 30 January, 2017 ｜ functional programming, Leibniz, monad

The practice of functional programming is pinned upon the concept of “monads” — small functions that lift types from simple to complex…

Published 24 December, 2016 ｜ tech ethics, AI

This article aims to give a brief historical context of human rights, followed by implications centered around Artificial Intelligence and…

Published 21 November, 2015 ｜ Philip K Dick, philosophy, Leibniz

Philip K. Dick adaptations are dog whistles for me. I believe that Rutger Hauer’s improvisation at the end of Blade Runner is a top five…