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For this week’s looking outwards I researched Matt Zumwalt, who was an eyeo speaker in 2019. Zumwalt is an engineer and scholar based in Philadelphia. He describes himself as a “queer Buddhist software creator,” and has studied software engineering and cognitive science. His work pertains largely to presenting information and open-sourced software. He has developed several hackable Ruby libraries to ease presenting data and large-scale informatics in rails. Much of his work also revolves around meditating on the nature of technology. He wrote an article titled “the internet has been stolen from you” where he discusses the non-cooperative nature of modern industry and its opposition to open-sourced innovation and free transfer of information.

https://flyingzumwalt.com