Hi everyone! I give talks, write articles, and frequently share my thoughts and opinions. Here I’ve tried to summarise my “best of” output for 2015.

Writing

I do a lot of writing about technology, mental health, society, and the future. Here are some selected pieces from this year:

• Why non-code contributions matter
• Human relevance in the age of machines
• Buzzconf was awesome
• Duck yes! SpaceX lands Falcon 9
• Just love each other
• It’s time we spoke about loneliness
• I’m donating 10% of my income to causes that do the most good

Videos

While I’ve appeared at a number of conferences in 2015, not all of my talks have been taped. However I’m very pleased with the ones that have:

• Open Source and Social Change, Making the World a Better Place (20 minutes OSCON keynote)
• The Future is Awesome (machine ethics and emerging technologies) (10 minute OSCON keynote)
• The Future is Awesome (machine ethics and emerging technologies) (40 minute in-depth PLUG talk)

Audio

I keep wanting to record more audio, but it’s something I need to have sufficient time for and be in the right mood:

• The Night Watch, by James Mickens

Facebook long-posts

I’ve also written a number of longer Facebook posts that haven’t made it to the rest of the internet yet:

• The humanity of kicking a robot
• Seven tips for starting a healthy community
• Technological unemployment
• Code is like sausages
• Numbers in Japanese

Support me on Patreon

Everything I do is released under free licenses; indeed, everything linked to by this post is released under a Creative Commons Attribution license. I also don’t run ads anywhere. If you want to support my role as a thinker and opinion-writer, you can do so on Patreon.

Wishing you all the best for 2016!

~ Paul