Mindblown: culture, urbanism, leadership, technology.
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A different approach
As the twice-impeached felon in the White House goes about his work, he has decided upon a number of policies that are crass, blunt, cruel, and of questionable legality because he and the people he surrounds himself with are impatient, ignorant, and immoral. But the thing is, buried deep within them, some of the policies…
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a more accurate political spectrum
As we once again struggle to talk about what is happening in the White House it is important to understand that our customs regarding how we talk about politics, politicians, and political power are taxonomically flawed. The use of a Right = Conservative, Left = Liberal dichotomy doesn’t fit with the use of a Conservative-Moderate-Liberal…
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Dragons
The Internet and the World Wide Web represent what happens when you build a system that structurally subverts the mechanisms of constraint that allow a government to regulate the behavior of community members. Typically, this has been seen as a good thing because it was initially done by benevolent tinkerers and lots of people benefited…
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Triaging your principles
Some people can’t be saved, save the ones who can. That is the idea behind triage, the practice of sorting wounded or injured people to order them for treatment, but also to order them for non-treatment because in a crisis, when time and doctors and supplies are in short supply, trying in vain to save…
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Discretionary power without accountability
Convicted felon Donald. J. Trump was in a New York City courtroom today where he was sentenced to bear no burden and suffer no penalty for cooking the books during his 2016 presidential campaign to hide from regulators and voters how he paid off a porn star to hide from voters that he’d had an…
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Tariffs only work if …
Tariffs only work if they raise prices of imported goods above the cost of domestic goods because the purpose of a tariff is to create space in the competitive landscape for domestic producers to grow and prosper by raising the cost of the imported good so that domestic goods can undercut them on price in…
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Some bad intentions…
Bad Intentions The green bus passes through melike vibrating waves varying shades of ink Color It’s a pleasant enough sensationBut since I am paralyzed If the green bus continuesTo pass through me I will be left here foreverAs if betrayedBy some bad intentions of space and time Jim Carroll
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Modern life is out of control
Modern life is out of control. This is well known, in fact, it is so well known that we have entire industries dedicated to the attempts to put it back “under control”. Yet we organize and structure and tidy and balance to no avail, because modern life is out of control. Too little and too…
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My American Trauma
This is about what happens when you are wrong about who you are, how you see yourself, and what you think that means when conceptualizing yourself, the world, and your place in that world.
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The Source of Truth
When we use truth and fact synonymously we lose the very precision that folks who care about things enough to want a “source of truth” are seeking in the first place.