My morning walk in the woods

Currently reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚

The last few days at Holy Hill

Here are the books I finished reading in 2023.

Currently reading: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry 📚

• Mail Client: mail.app
• Mail Server: iCloud with custom domain
• Notes: Craft.do and Apple Notes
• To-Do: Reminders
• iPhone Photo Shooting: iPhone 15 Pro Max and Apple Camera app
• Photo Management: Apple Photos
• Calendar: Apple Calendar (and Outlook Web Access on occasion at work)
• Cloud File Storage: iCloud (and OneDrive/Teams at work)
• RSS: N/A
• Contacts: Apple Contacts
• Browser: Safari
• Chat: Messages and Slack
• Bookmarks: Safari bookmarks
• Read It Later: Safari Reading List and Apple News Saved Stories
• Word Processing: Pages and MS Word
• Spreadsheets: Numbers, MS Excel, and Pandas/Jupyter
• Presentations: Keynote and MS PowerPoint
• Shopping Lists: Reminders
• Meal Planning: LoseIt
• Budget and Personal Finance: Quicken Simplifi
• News: Apple News
• Music: Apple Music
• Podcasts: N/A
• Password Management: Mac/IOS Passwords (experimenting with dropping 1Password)
• Code Editing: VS Code, Jupyter, vi
• Books: Apple Books
• Blogging: micro.blog, mastodon

For more, see a collection of these lists at: https://defaults.rknight.me/

Hello — my name is Jefferson Burson and I am a technologist and generally curious human living in Harvard, MA.

Personal Interests:

• information technology | apple | AI | networking | cloud | python | data science
• lego robotics
• lunar science
• astronomy | astrophotography
• local geology
• science fiction | creative writing
• books | reading
• history | philosophy | foreign affairs
• nature photography
• climate Action

Social:

• Mastodon: @7robots@mast.hpc.social
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/7.robots/
• GitHub: https://github.com/7robots

Work:

• I am currently Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture for Harvard University.

https://enterprisearchitecture.harvard.edu/

• Since joining Harvard, I’ve worked in a variety of technology areas and initiatives:
• network services
• infrastructure, datacenter, and devops
• cloud networking and security
• a variety of university COVID efforts
• data quality and integration
• generative AI

Volunteer Interests:

• I currently volunteer as a Robotics Coach for the FIRST Lego Robotics program at Littleton Robotics FRC 6328

https://www.littletonrobotics.org/

• Formerly volunteered as a Co-Chair for the Town of Harvard’s Climate Initiative and co-authored the town’s Climate Action Plan

https://www.harvardsclimateinitiative.org/

• Formerly volunteered as an Associate on the Town of Harvard’s Planning Board

https://www.harvard-ma.gov/planning-board

• At various points in the past, I’ve also participating in the Scout Committee for Harvard’s Cub Scout Pack and a Boy Scout Troop in Merrimack, NH

My app defaults

www.7robots.org/my-app-de…

Currently reading: The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks 📚

Misty morning

Finished reading: A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 📚

Currently reading: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz 📚

selenography

Harvard University Enterprise Architecture

Town of Harvard Climate Initiative

Finished reading: Rubicon by Tom Holland 📚

Currently reading: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 📚

So I pay close attention, and note every detail.

From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?

These questions are in my mind when your father asks me, “Do you want to make a baby?” And I smile and answer, “Yes,” and I unwrap his arms from around me, and we hold hands as we walk inside to make love, to make you.

excerpt from “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang 📚 💬

Finished reading: Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 📚

Currently reading: Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey 📚