Life and its many opportunities

Paul
Paul
@Paul@pauljacobson.me

Enthusiast, writer, Happiness Engineer at Automattic. I take photos too. Passionate about my wife, Gina and #proudDad.

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  • Israel Memories – My New Project

    I have a new project that I decided to kick off this afternoon. It’s called Israel Memories, and it is a WordPress site that I am going to share my memories of Israel, my home, in photos and videos that I have accumulated over the years.

  • The 6 Stages of Code Development

    I haven’t been a coder for very long, and I don’t really consider myself a “serious programmer”. I use code to make things easier in my life and at work. Having said that, I find myself going through the same 6 Stages of Code Development that I thought I’d share.

  • A Personal Reckoning: The Moral Dilemma of Misjudged Bravery in Crisis

    On November 30, two terrorists attacked a Jerusalem bus stop, killing three. An intervening Israeli citizen was mistakenly killed by off-duty IDF soldiers, raising questions about my acceptance of such actions.

  • Israeli women tank crews saving lives on 7 October

    One of the remarkable stories that emerged in the weeks after the brutal 7 October attacks on Israeli communities along the Gaza border by Hamas terrorists is the story about Israeli women tank crews who rushed to battle terrorists on that dark day.

  • Bring Them Home #KidnappedFromIsrael

    Not only were Israelis brutally murdered, raped and mutilated on 7 October 2023, more than 240 people were kidnapped from towns and cities near the Gaza border. Most of the kidnapped remain in Gaza. Here are the stories of some of the babies, children, men, women and elderly who were taken.

  • And then we have our own extremists in government

    As if dealing with terrorists and pro-Hamas supporters isn’t enough, we also have to deal with our extremist government ministers intent on both undermining our moral position in this war and inflaming our own radicals

  • We don’t care

    I read a post on the Times of Israel Blogs titled “Dear world: I don’t care” that expresses what I, and so many other Israelis, think about the mounting hypocritical, hateful, and inaccurate criticism of Israel’s attempts to defeat Hamas, and return to us a measure of peace and security in our homes.

  • In case you thought that Jews are “white”

    Israeli Jews are a diverse group of people. There seems to be a misguided narrative going around that Jews are “white” because it plays into classic racist tropes when discussing Palestinians.