Mindblown: culture, urbanism, leadership, technology.

  • order, plan, and control…

    We aren’t special, just different, and so just like there is no particular reason why a certain fish ends up as dinner for you while another ends up as dinner for an orca, there is no particular reason why in a catastrophe the majority of the players are there.

  • Technology versus Utility

    “Information Technology” is such a dumb turn of phrase. Information Technology has many things wrong with it, the least of which is that there is nothing inherently new or esoteric about information. As long as we are human, information and information processing, is a basic process the same in kind as biomass processing and pneumo-processing.…

  • This is the first day of the rest of your life…

    Know thyself. Seize the day. Damn the man. The anthems of the young are salient, meant to carry them into a more serene age wherein they may find themselves at peace with the world around them. They are illusions, noble lies told to inspire. But what happens when they become more believable than the reality…