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Gregory Brown
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Human-centric software dev + systems thinker.

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@adarsh Very much know how that feels.

Here's hoping that a sense of being recalled to life sticks.

Also, thank you for your efforts in your time at Ruby Central.
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
@getajobmike @rubycentral

I thought that in part it was running conferences to offset infrastructure operations costs, but Ufuk corrected me on Reddit to remind me that post COVID this has not been true, and that the conferences run at a loss or break even.

I submitted a question to Ruby […]
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November 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
@jaredwhite Don't need outside forces when the threat is coming from inside the building.

I've been an exec coach / management consultant for 21 years. Nobody writes a letter on official letterhead from "The Business" when they want something sketchy done.

They put the right person in the […]
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November 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Here's the exact text I submitted.

https://github.com/community-research-on-ruby-governance/questions-for-ruby-central/commit/4c2c3f322c1d0c97d825dd5cb4832fdbf8927531

If you send in a request of your own along these lines, please do send a pull request to put it on public record.

I do give […]
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November 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I strongly urge people to continue to submit questions to Ruby Central that deserve to be answered, even if you've lost faith in the organization.

If you do, please also consider putting your questions on public record by sending a pull request to this repository […]
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October 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
@ricmac Love the design changes they've made to this that puts people in control of if they want to be included in packs and if so, which ones they want to be in.

Bluesky not even *notifying* you that you were in a starter pack was always weird.

Here's hoping they keep the dunbar's number […]
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October 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM