Bailout Brink
“values in series taking on as real we affect ready gold a steady token flows in unbroken circuit and induces our being, wearies of us as ideal equals that heady crises eddy” — Louis Zukofsky, A-9 “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.” — Genesis Block, Bitcoin *** I graduated college into the summer of 2008, a summer that was about as far as my life could see: I’d figure out my future, I told myself, in the fall. For I had the crown-jewel of resume bullet-poi...
Bailout Brink
“values in series taking on as real we affect ready gold a steady token flows in unbroken circuit and induces our being, wearies of us as ideal equals that heady crises eddy” — Louis Zukofsky, A-9 “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.” — Genesis Block, Bitcoin *** I graduated college into the summer of 2008, a summer that was about as far as my life could see: I’d figure out my future, I told myself, in the fall. For I had the crown-jewel of resume bullet-poi...
The Case for Modular Maxis
I. The year is 2012, and you are doomed to be an oracle, heckled by the present, vindicated by a future nobody else can see. See, you’re trying to compete for attention with your roommate’s bong to explain that you’ve glimpsed the future, and it is a gilded, wondrous Beacon of Truth, a technology with the very power to deify the Everyman—you disconcertingly notice your roommate eying the bong—known as “Bitcoin.” “Whoa,” says your roommate, Trey, helping himself to a massive rip. “What?” Occup...
The Case for Modular Maxis
I. The year is 2012, and you are doomed to be an oracle, heckled by the present, vindicated by a future nobody else can see. See, you’re trying to compete for attention with your roommate’s bong to explain that you’ve glimpsed the future, and it is a gilded, wondrous Beacon of Truth, a technology with the very power to deify the Everyman—you disconcertingly notice your roommate eying the bong—known as “Bitcoin.” “Whoa,” says your roommate, Trey, helping himself to a massive rip. “What?” Occup...
Context Disruption
I'm assembling a team.I.One working definition of a bull market: it’s whenever we’re celebrating assholes. One working definition of a bear: it’s whenever we’re celebrating their downfall. All of which is to say—to tell the story of Do Kwon is really just to tell the story of us.II.In a constellation of alternate worlds, each with their own variant histories and errant quirks with a squinting resemblance to our own, I’d like to think that there are one or two planets—not the majority of ...
Context Disruption
I'm assembling a team.I.One working definition of a bull market: it’s whenever we’re celebrating assholes. One working definition of a bear: it’s whenever we’re celebrating their downfall. All of which is to say—to tell the story of Do Kwon is really just to tell the story of us.II.In a constellation of alternate worlds, each with their own variant histories and errant quirks with a squinting resemblance to our own, I’d like to think that there are one or two planets—not the majority of ...
