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Brian Janaszek

Brian Janaszek lives in Morningside, Pittsburgh, PA with his wife Jenifer and their two sons. Currently, a local software company pays him to be a computer programmer despite his degrees in philosophy and creative writing. He is currently working out the implications of being an anarcho-communitarian Neocalvinist during his daily commutes to the office on his bicycle.

Re-Imagining Business

As economies grow, business transactions become more depersonalized. What are we missing without face-to-face business?

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Re-Imagining Business

As economies grow, business transactions become more depersonalized. What are we missing without face-to-face business?

Rocks and Roads

A month before, I dreamed of climbing difficult problems. Now I dreamed of simply climbing.

Drawing Lines in the Sand

We are compelled to be engaged with technology. Where will we make our stands?

Convivial software (or, why open source matters)

Closed source software is not bad or wrong—it can still allow flourishing and productivity. But what of the user’s freedom to tailor or remake software? What of inter-connectedness and community?

Q&A with Brian Janaszek, “Computer programmer”, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

I teach computers how to work for us. My current job is split between designing bits of the larger product and implementing existing designs. If I am designing, I typically try to identify the most basic units of information and determine how best to model them programmatically.

Getting engaged (or not)

Institutions like family, business, government, church, law . . . Christian political theorist Jacques Ellul argues that all of these are stop-gap measures made necessary only after the fall into sin.
A dialogue on the Christian’s redemptive role.