Amitai Schleier

@schmonz@schmonz.com

Force multiplier.
Outcome improver.
Decision sharer.
Developer, leader, coach.
https://agilein3minut.es podcaster.
Musician.
Bad poet (award-winning).
Joined: Apr 05, 2017 (@octodon.social)
SelfHosted: Mar 30, 2025
Pronouns: he/they
Podcast: ✔ https://agilein3minut.es
Consultancy: ✔ https://latentagility.com
More: ✔ https://schmonz.com
Keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PAC6KHICU3QSHQZVPJCZFS7KIA
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[?]Amitai Schleier »
@schmonz@schmonz.com

Teammate on most recent team gave me this parting feedback: “I learned a ton, we got lots done, our team dynamics were awesome, and I’ve never felt this kind of team feeling before.”

If your business makes software, I might be good for your business.

https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1750949585.435936

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[?]Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 »
@deborahh@cosocial.ca

@schmonz I vouch for Amitai! 👍

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    They chose lollipops (!) #weihnachtsmarkt


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109474595445044317

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    Time for some of this #weihnachtsmarkt business.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109473389075143386

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    After nearly a year away, everything needed cleaning. Tomorrow’s coffee will be good.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109462602709909410

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @sevan@noc.social here’s what I did last year with the MacBook: https://gist.github.com/schmonz/b1c7fe7c8f784f07de117a08412e3268


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109450895335715542

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @sevan@noc.social I remember reading about that update trick, but don’t remember it making the install any more straightforward. Someday I’ll get around to finding out 🙂


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109450617087033706

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    Hard drive died. Oh well. this was just a practice machine for reviving my MacPro1,1 (also 32-bit EFI with 64-bit other stuff) back home.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109449943669719065

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    10 months later, this MacBook2,1 needs its bespoke Ubuntu install upgraded, not so that it can continue being used by nobody (true and justified), but so that I can fall asleep.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109446374868757840

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
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    @renice I’m very sure I met the music by hearing it at https://youtu.be/hfHfHUjmo9s. That whole channel is 🔥🎹


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109424263079349100

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @renice can’t remember, but usually imslp.org


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109422762691415750

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    Time’s been tight here in the land of #weeklypiano. Here’s a tiny #pianominiature, the first from a set of 30 Jazz Miniatures by Mordasov.

    https://youtu.be/AD3ayJUuhl0


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109417074930751336

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    Sunset; moonrise.


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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
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    @asciamanna I'm sorry to hear this. My first child's middle name commemorates a very special black cat who was going to get talked about forever anyway. Wishing you some consolation, and happy to hear stories of this cat if and when you'd like to tell some.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109384209604039353

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
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    Not usually up and out this early.


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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @deborahh ahhhh thank you!


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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @netbsd @dcoms@fosstodon.org @mamash @Charadon @encelado been meaning to give it a whirl and steal any low-hanging good ideas for #pkgsrc and #notqmail 🙂 What host platform do you run the image under? How involved is it to manage the whole setup?


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109365424196282570

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    T: Here’s your dinosaur.

    F: I don’t WANT my dinosaur.

    Me: You don’t want your dinosaur? Are you serious??

    F: Dinoserious.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109365419513906038

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    One of my many favorites from months of #dailypiano: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/108976471950305717


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109362211355812473

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
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    @encelado @netbsd @Charadon @dcoms@fosstodon.org very cool to hear your setup. (My #notqmail MX from #pkgsrc on #NetBSD is on a static-IP VPS, nothing interesting to say about it.)


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109362156127081751

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
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    @narthur wat. Did he notice that the dog’s source and destination matched?


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109362134406788477

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
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    Being “cost-conscious” can be a costly way to become cost-aware. Or, in the worst case, an infuriatingly costly way not to.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109361153712849404

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
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    @leRoux @jastsa@mastodon.scot @classicalmusic I smushed my way through some Bowen piano pieces a few months back (starting at https://youtu.be/oYHQiA0H5TM?list=PLkuryjnRFclQJqoIVpk9W9-eIRswejo-R). The harmonies are so juicy, and so uniquely him.


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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
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    @larsibacken @LeBelge @classicalmusic an extraordinary performance of a monumental piece. Welcome to Medtner! Here are a few words about my personal experience with his music (Hamelin read and liked!!): https://schmonz.com/2014/01/28/on-some-cusps/


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109356548504342311

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    The fog lifted.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109354999675546861

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @joel you’re very kind 😜 🙇‍♂️


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109354227370085423

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    15 years ago today, I won the Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest, with this: https://youtu.be/FIxXAoTgHQY

    #BadPoetry #JoyceKilmer #Philolexian #ColumbiaUniversity


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109354149375353668

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    Schumann, No. 11 from the Op. 6 Davidsbündlertänze. https://youtu.be/2t0Izt01j9o #weeklypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianomusic #piano #pianosolo #sightreading #romanticism #schumann


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109349274576416152

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    There and back.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109339532652675798

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @Poomins I’ve barely heard anything of his. Not sure how I found this one. Will be digging deeper now for sure.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109333493665006110

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @classicalmusic @davenicolette@mastodon.social @jastsa my personal brand appears strong 🙂


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109332156767299679

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @djswagerman @jastsa @classicalmusic Medtner is by far the most important to me, has been for decades, and will be for however many I’ve got left.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109331788222989767

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @jastsa looking at your profile, if you haven't met Kapustin, go there first.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109331578433672777

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @jastsa

    @classicalmusic

    7 composers I'm paying a lot of attention to:

    #Medtner
    #Mompou
    #Alkan
    #Bowen
    #Kapustin
    #Grieg
    #Bortkiewicz


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109331567001454444

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @deborahh happy to hear it did that for you. It slows me wayyyy down too, along with a bunch of others from the #dailypiano project.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109331524766597083

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @twbrandt thank you!


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109331498614465974

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    This one’s been very earwormy for me. I keep auto-hearing it and not minding in the slightest.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109328482462083189

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @cryu what a bitter onion of irony


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109324962513433987

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    Most people in positions of power are at least trying to appear as though they’re balancing a complex set of responsibilities with care and skill, in exchange for which most everyone else appears to tolerate the structures being upheld.

    Most, but not all.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109322789722139563

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    Yesterday’s and today’s walks.


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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @caconym 🙇‍♂️


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109321240263695972

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    For this week’s #weeklypiano #pianominiature, we have a Zwiegesang (“Duet”) by Moszkowski from 1894. Mostly very sweet, might even seem demure, but beware a few surprising harmonic shifts hidden in the half-steps.

    https://youtu.be/ebhUTM48Oj8

    #pianominiatures #piano #pianomusic #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #chromaticism #moszkowski


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109320878769046188

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @donaldm314 we had summerish temperatures a few days ago, even. Back now in proper autumn (for the Hudson Valley) “walk briskly to keep warm” range.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109316925589335017

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    Today’s walk.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109316039544546653

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @cryu 💜 and I recently assembled a git repo with some decades-old direct-to-NetBSD boot research for that machine: https://github.com/schmonz/netbsd-mac68k-without-macos (not my own work, to be clear, just wanted to make it readily available)


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109305498961653095

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    Cool, now buy Google.

    (Pardon the spicy take. I don't love what's happening here: rash decisions causing havoc for a great many people. But I would love a more federated internet, and this guy is sort of helping.)


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109300404352577093

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @craigmaloney just missed. Trifonov is on my list of "musicians who play Medtner", so he's important 😃


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109294451128797774

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @craigmaloney whoop yup thanks!


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109294442155009796

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @craigmaloney oooh I shoulda watched. Streaming?


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109294436582181693

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    New camera (I’d usually call it “phone”).


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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @Bdellar 🎵🍺


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109282646279365008

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    [?]Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    Also today’s walk.


    original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109276218271552766

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