8 Nov 2021 • I’m thinking about cryptocurrency, but also everything else.
17 Apr 2021 • What to do when you realize things aren’t the way they ought to be.
23 Jan 2021 • A meditation on my place in the universe
6 Jun 2020 • Reflections on the art of paying attention.
6 Nov 2019 • Evan Thompson’s response to “neuro-nihilism”.
2 Nov 2019 • A handful of online courses, books and other resources to start learning about the field of complexity science.
23 Sep 2019 • One of Michel Foucault’s late interests provides a rich framework for understanding self-transformation and meaning-making.
18 Sep 2019 • An outline of Peter Drucker’s “Managing Oneself”, a short but essential book for navigating your professional life.
14 Sep 2019 • The trouble with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics.
11 Sep 2019 • Trying to understand a whole as simply a sum of its parts hasn’t worked out well in nutrition or many other fields of science.
7 Sep 2019 • The true horror of Ari Aster’s Hereditary.
29 Nov 2018 • In response to Zapffe’s famous essay, ‘The Last Messiah’, I offer two perspectives which confront the darkest parts of consciousness while still affirming the possibility of a life well-lived.
26 Aug 2018 • Due to pervasive DRM and closed ecosystems dominated by Amazon and Apple, the possibilities of ebooks are nowhere near fully realized.
14 Dec 2015 • Technology and design both share a concern for creating solutions to problems. What causes them to diverge is a matter of ethics.
3 Nov 2013 • A meditation on the concept of wabi-sabi and it’s connection to questions of mortality and meaning.
29 May 2013 • Traditional management strategies are useless for problems that require creative thinking.
27 Mar 2013 • If the purity of a codebase would suffer from a change that enhances the experience of users, then the code should suffer.
18 Mar 2013 • Your stock options are unlikely to make you rich, so make sure you enjoy the work enough to make it through the tough times.
14 Feb 2013 • A summary of the paper ‘A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design’ by Bruno Latour.
18 Dec 2012 • Debates about gun rights must acknowledge that guns are not only technology, they are culture and symbol.
22 Nov 2012 • In order to meaningfully shape the future, design must challenge and overturn entrenched systems, not simply create new packages for yesterday’s ideas.
8 Nov 2012 • Web-based apps that match the speed and responsiveness of native apps are better for users, but they require more investment from product and engineering teams.
1 Nov 2012 • Zero to one is the process of creating new things while 1 to n is ‘copying things that work.’
9 Oct 2012 • An overview of several main ideas from Fred Brooks’ book The Design of Design.