I’m thinking about cryptocurrency, but also everything else. | Continue reading
What to do when you realize things aren’t the way they ought to be. | Continue reading
A meditation on my place in the universe | Continue reading
Reflections on the art of paying attention. | Continue reading
Evan Thompson’s response to “neuro-nihilism”. | Continue reading
A handful of online courses, books and other resources to start learning about the field of complexity science. | Continue reading
One of Michel Foucault’s late interests provides a rich framework for understanding self-transformation and meaning-making. | Continue reading
An outline of Peter Drucker’s “Managing Oneself”, a short but essential book for navigating your professional life. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
The trouble with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
Due to pervasive DRM and closed ecosystems dominated by Amazon and Apple, the possibilities of ebooks are nowhere near fully realized. | Continue reading
Technology and design both share a concern for creating solutions to problems. What causes them to diverge is a matter of ethics. | Continue reading
A meditation on the concept of wabi-sabi and it’s connection to questions of mortality and meaning. | Continue reading
Traditional management strategies are useless for problems that require creative thinking. | Continue reading
If the purity of a codebase would suffer from a change that enhances the experience of users, then the code should suffer. | Continue reading
Your stock options are unlikely to make you rich, so make sure you enjoy the work enough to make it through the tough times. | Continue reading
A summary of the paper ‘A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design’ by Bruno Latour. | Continue reading
Debates about gun rights must acknowledge that guns are not only technology, they are culture and symbol. | Continue reading
In order to meaningfully shape the future, design must challenge and overturn entrenched systems, not simply create new packages for yesterday’s ideas. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
Zero to one is the process of creating new things while 1 to n is ‘copying things that work.’ | Continue reading
An overview of several main ideas from Fred Brooks’ book The Design of Design. | Continue reading