I joined Brendan O’Sullivan on the Toastmasters World Tour podcast to talk about the e-ballot system, the year of getting it approved and tested, and where I want to take it next — including the harder fight I haven’t started yet: making judging transparent instead of anonymous, the way Olympic judging works.
We also got into things that didn’t make the report : how I ended up in Toastmasters in the first place, the challenges to get World Headquarters to approve the pilot program, and why I think most of the resistance to this kind of change is about people, not technology.
Software archeologist – Recovering Physicist – Dancer
As a scientist I studied the physics of the very small quantum world. As a computer hacker I distill code. Software is eating the world, and less code means less errors, less problems. Millions of lines of legacy code demand attention and have to be understood and simplified for future reliable operation.