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Jan2026

The year of not giving up

The most important lessons I learned in 2025

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Nov2021

Who Needs Foundations?

I’m thinking about cryptocurrency, but also everything else.

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Apr2021

Dick jokes

What to do when you realize things aren’t the way they ought to be.

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Jan2021

Endless forms most beautiful

A meditation on my place in the universe.

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Nov2019

Self as Process

Rust Cohle and thoughts on the self.

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Nov2019

Getting started with complexity science

A handful of online courses, books and other resources to start learning about the field of complexity science.

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Sep2019

Technologies of the Self: A Short Introduction

One of Michel Foucault’s late interests provides a framework for understanding self-transformation and meaning-making.

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Sep2019

Hereditary

The true horror of Ari Aster’s Hereditary.

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Nov2018

Confronting the burden of consciousness

How to deal.

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Aug2018

What happened to ebook innovation?

Pervasive DRM and closed ecosystems mean the possibilities of ebooks are nowhere near fully realized.

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Nov2013

Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect

A meditation on wabi-sabi.

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May2013

Creative work cannot be managed

Traditional management strategies are useless for problems that require creative thinking.

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Feb2013

The advantages of design in the 21st century

Looking at Bruno Latour’s, ‘A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design’.

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Oct2012

The Design of Design

An overview of several main ideas from Fred Brooks’ book The Design of Design.

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