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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2017.01.07

Another year, another extract-transform-load project. We're migrating the CRM at Cycle Toronto, and it's an interesting challenge. As always with membership databases, there's so much data cleansing to do. But it's also a crash course on how the non-profit does a lot of what it does.

rand()m quote

In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

—David Graeber