What I Learned Selling Comedy Tickets On The Streets Of New York Everything I ever learned about capitalism, I learned selling comedy tickets to strangers on the streets of New York City. The first lesson is to never, under any circumstance, sell David Bowles 14 Dec 2022 · 8 min read
Why Your Team Needs a Weekly Metrics Review A few weeks ago in our Manifesto for the Data Informed, one of the five beliefs presented was Company-wide familiarity with metrics rather than outsourcing to ‘data people.’ Immediately, we David Bowles 14 Dec 2022 · 6 min read
La monarquía hispánica y el náhuatl Como ya sabrán, me encanta el náhuatl. Traduzco del náhuatl al inglés, doy clases de náhuatl en la universidad, escribo obras originales en náhuatl. Pero hay algo que probablemente no David Bowles 14 Dec 2022 · 4 min read
Mexican Brujx, Part 2: Shapeshifting Witches Many pre-Colombian indigenous cultures had deep, complex belief in therianthropy, the ability of certain people to assume animal form. Evidence for this practice in Mesoamerica goes back to the Olmecs, David Bowles 14 Dec 2022 · 5 min read
The Virgin’s Nahuatl The most well-known words in Nahuatl were not pronounced by an indigenous person at all. Instead, they were purportedly spoken by Mary herself, the mother of Jesus, when she appeared David Bowles 14 Dec 2022 · 5 min read
Etimología de ‘tocayo’ En casi todos los países de América Latina y España, se le dice “tocayo” o “tocaya” a alguien con el mismo nombre que uno. Crecí bilingüe en una familia mexicoamericana. David Bowles 14 Dec 2022 · 3 min read
Mexican X Part XVI: Xarabe Tapatío Nearly anywhere you go, a certain combination of trumpets and violins will elicit a similar response: listeners will immediately think of Mexico, overcome with an urge to throw a hat David Bowles 14 Dec 2022 · 3 min read
Cummins’ Non-Mexican Crap If you haven’t already, you’re going to be hearing a lot of praise for Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt, a novel about a Mexican bookseller who has to escape David Bowles 14 Dec 2022 · 6 min read
The Major Aztec Gods, Part I Because of the work I do sharing information about Nahuatl lexicon and grammar, I (very occasionally) get into debates on Twitter about the niceties of this word or that. A David Bowles 14 Dec 2022 · 7 min read
The “Wife” of Huitzilopochtli A question recently came up on Twitter: Did Huitzilopochtli, patron god of the Mexica, have a wife? In fact, two major sources preserve the sacred story of how the Mexica David Bowles 14 Dec 2022 · 5 min read
Braiding Past into Future People from communities of color are underrepresented in publishing. Our books make up less than six percent of the titles released each year, and that’s despite a century of David Bowles 14 Dec 2022 · 9 min read
