My Dinner with Pyotr
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bot
A Distant Memory
A blog post? In this economy?
Culture Quest
Hey friends 👋 I can hardly believe it's already been two months since I wrote an Update. In some ways, it was incredibly freeing to not have the deadlines I always impose upon myself—especially because I would not have been able to meet them—but in other ways it left me feeling a kind of emptiness; a lack of creative fulfillment.I Filled the Void With LeisureThe past two months were incredible. I spent many of my days on beaches, in nature, or otherwise eating and drinking my way across...
Culture Quest
Hey friends 👋 I can hardly believe it's already been two months since I wrote an Update. In some ways, it was incredibly freeing to not have the deadlines I always impose upon myself—especially because I would not have been able to meet them—but in other ways it left me feeling a kind of emptiness; a lack of creative fulfillment.I Filled the Void With LeisureThe past two months were incredible. I spent many of my days on beaches, in nature, or otherwise eating and drinking my way across...
Culture Quest
Everything old is new again.
Logging Off
Hey friends I was around 12 years old when I logged on to the internet for the first time. We had bought a used PC running Windows 98 from a friend of the family and purchased a dial-up modem from the local internet service provider. My mom wasn't really tech-savvy and she had no real interest in what she called “going into cyberspace,” so I basically had free-reign over that computer and the digital realms to which it connected, so long as she didn't need to use the phone line.and ...
Logging Off
Hey friends I was around 12 years old when I logged on to the internet for the first time. We had bought a used PC running Windows 98 from a friend of the family and purchased a dial-up modem from the local internet service provider. My mom wasn't really tech-savvy and she had no real interest in what she called “going into cyberspace,” so I basically had free-reign over that computer and the digital realms to which it connected, so long as she didn't need to use the phone line.and ...
Logging Off
The Revolution Will Not Be Proselytized
Against the Grain
Against the GrainHey friends 👋 One year ago today, I shared an issue of the newsletter, while on vacation, called Out of Office. Long-time readers will recall the relative informality of the Update back then, and this post, was especially all over the place. In it, I reflected on my previous issue, All Together Now, which introduced readers to what would become running themes of my writing:political power decentralization (aka anarchism or libertarianism)the importance of censorship resistan...
Against the Grain
Against the GrainHey friends 👋 One year ago today, I shared an issue of the newsletter, while on vacation, called Out of Office. Long-time readers will recall the relative informality of the Update back then, and this post, was especially all over the place. In it, I reflected on my previous issue, All Together Now, which introduced readers to what would become running themes of my writing:political power decentralization (aka anarchism or libertarianism)the importance of censorship resistan...
Against the Grain
Free as in plea deal
Greener Pastures
Hey friends 👋 I recently finished reading two books back-to-back on the same subject: decentralization. I know, big surprise, right? I spend a lot of time learning about this particular domain, either through the political lens of libertarian socialist / anarchist literature, or through the technological lens of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and open-source software. It was only natural then when I saw these books, each from outspoken proponents of these technologies, that I had to dedicate so...
Greener Pastures
Hey friends 👋 I recently finished reading two books back-to-back on the same subject: decentralization. I know, big surprise, right? I spend a lot of time learning about this particular domain, either through the political lens of libertarian socialist / anarchist literature, or through the technological lens of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and open-source software. It was only natural then when I saw these books, each from outspoken proponents of these technologies, that I had to dedicate so...
Peer-to-Peer Review
Hey friends 👋 You know how sometimes a song pops into your head and you can't get rid of it until you can finally listen to it? I recently went looking for an album I had been quite fond of in college to free one particular melody from this kind of infinite loop. But I came across an issue… The album wasn't on Spotify. And it wasn't on Apple Music. It wasn't on Tidal or Bandcamp or just about anywhere else I checked. In fact the only place I could find it was a relatively...
Peer-to-Peer Review
Hey friends 👋 You know how sometimes a song pops into your head and you can't get rid of it until you can finally listen to it? I recently went looking for an album I had been quite fond of in college to free one particular melody from this kind of infinite loop. But I came across an issue… The album wasn't on Spotify. And it wasn't on Apple Music. It wasn't on Tidal or Bandcamp or just about anywhere else I checked. In fact the only place I could find it was a relatively...
