I spent some time in the kitchen and yard today, being all domestic and catching up on podcasts that had piled up in my queue and had the experience of “running into” three different people I’ve met at various points.

Lastly was my friend Dave Enders’ piece on Studio 360 about Baghdad’s only art gallery. Go listen.

I also heard an acquaintance from SXSW Kevin Smokler discussing his new company BookTour.com, which is very similar to (but more developed than) an idea Vinh and I had a few months ago. Kevin is a great guy and I couldn’t think of anyone better to help lead this specific project. Congrats, Kevin!

Also on my playlist was a talk by Patrick Ball of Benetech discussing the importance of open source software for human rights work. I interviewed with a job for Patrick before he joined Benetech (and gave probably the worst interview of my life, but that’s another story) and a year or two later met some of the Benetech people at a non-profit tech conference working on the software he described in the talk.

I think I need to expand my listening horizons … but all good stuff.

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