A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

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RIP Hazel Hazel Scott Armstrong Davis combined a fierce disposition with impeccable grooming and elegance. She is survived by her sister Gertrude.
American Religion in America's Time of Crisis Buddhists must respond to the current political crisis, just as abolitionists did in the 19th C. A talk at the Village Zendo, September 3, 2020.
Two attempts to compare a TLA+ spec with a C++ implementation At MongoDB we tried two methods to test that a spec matches the code: one worked, one didn't. We explain our results in a VLDB 2020 paper.
The Python Language Summit 2020 Each year the Python core developers and a few Python community members have an exclusive one-day summit to discuss the future of the language.
Meditation at Home Photographs of Village Zendo members in early 2020.
Who Can You Trust? Our leaders are untrustworthy. When we hear about toilet paper hoarders or covidiots, we stop trusting each other. But there is someone we can trust.
Reading A Journal of the Plague Year in New York Daniel Defoe's account of London in 1665 is eerily like New York in 2020.
How Buddhism Survived The Japanese Internment Japanese Americans founded our practice, and preserved and adapted it to life in internment camps. Today too, we must adapt our practice in a crisis.
Climbing Under Lockdown March 29, 2020. The gym has been closed two weeks, I'm starting to climb the walls.
Joren's Shuso Hossen March 8, 2020. Joren Sarah Drury gave her first dharma talk and engaged the community in dharma combat.