• 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

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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 📚

I recently re-discovered a John Denver tribute album that was compiled by Mark Kozalek (of the Red House Painters). 🎵

music.apple.com/us/album/…

It’s been really enjoyable listening to and the collection has aged well.

Finished reading: Artemis by Andy Weir 📚

Finished reading: Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe by Philip Plait 📚

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

Go now, Persephone, to your dark-robed mother, go, and feel kindly in your heart towards me: be not so exceedingly cast down; for I shall be no unfitting husband for you among the deathless gods, that am brother to father Zeus. And while you are here, you shall rule all that lives and moves and shall have the greatest rights among the deathless gods: those who defraud you and do not appease your power with offerings, reverently performing rites and paying fit gifts, shall be punished for evermore.

• from the Homerica Hymns by Hesiod