Riding the web3 wave. I setup this account to document the adventure. Hoping one day the Mondragon accord will be a thing.
California's opportunity to lead the world through a successful first terraforming
I caught California’s gubernatorial climate forum this week and came away with a familiar feeling: we know the stakes, we know the tools, and yet our ambition still feels smaller than the moment demands. The candidates spoke thoughtfully about clean energy, affordability, water, wildfire, and environmental justice. All necessary. All important. But California’s climate challenge isn’t just about doing more of the same. It’s about remembering who we are. California has never won by being cauti...
California's opportunity to lead the world through a successful first terraforming
I caught California’s gubernatorial climate forum this week and came away with a familiar feeling: we know the stakes, we know the tools, and yet our ambition still feels smaller than the moment demands. The candidates spoke thoughtfully about clean energy, affordability, water, wildfire, and environmental justice. All necessary. All important. But California’s climate challenge isn’t just about doing more of the same. It’s about remembering who we are. California has never won by being cauti...
Be Like Water: Field Notes from the Trenches of Regional Climate Adaptation
Written in collaboration with a (new!) cognitive prothesis
Be Like Water: Field Notes from the Trenches of Regional Climate Adaptation
Written in collaboration with a (new!) cognitive prothesis
Be Like Water: Field Notes from the Trenches of Regional Climate Adaptation
Written in collaboration with a (new!) cognitive prothesis
Be Like Water: Field Notes from the Trenches of Regional Climate Adaptation
Written in collaboration with a (new!) cognitive prothesis
The garden of forking permitting paths
Written by the Patchwork protocol in collaboration with Patrick Atwater
The garden of forking permitting paths
Written by the Patchwork protocol in collaboration with Patrick Atwater
What we build before everything breaks apart
Last January, fires raged in Los Angeles. That’s not uncommon. But hurricane-force winds and the driest winter in 150 years contributed to a horrifically rare event, the worst natural disaster in the county’s history. Due to technical glitches, the entire county received evacuation orders. A week or two later, however, the smoke was gone and for the vast majority of residents, life was the same. Over Christmas, the weather report said it would snow in Park City. Instead, it rained up to ten t...
What we build before everything breaks apart
Last January, fires raged in Los Angeles. That’s not uncommon. But hurricane-force winds and the driest winter in 150 years contributed to a horrifically rare event, the worst natural disaster in the county’s history. Due to technical glitches, the entire county received evacuation orders. A week or two later, however, the smoke was gone and for the vast majority of residents, life was the same. Over Christmas, the weather report said it would snow in Park City. Instead, it rained up to ten t...
Teddy Roosevelt reviews Ezra's and Derek's Abundance book and broader movement
I finished this book in an afternoon. That alone is praise of a sort. It is plainly written, vigorously argued, and animated by a sincere desire to see the Republic build again. The authors are correct. A great nation that cannot build homes, bridges, power plants, or railroads is not a great nation for long. A people who know what must be done but cannot do it will soon cease to believe in self government altogether. On this point, I find myself in full agreement. They understand something e...
Teddy Roosevelt reviews Ezra's and Derek's Abundance book and broader movement
I finished this book in an afternoon. That alone is praise of a sort. It is plainly written, vigorously argued, and animated by a sincere desire to see the Republic build again. The authors are correct. A great nation that cannot build homes, bridges, power plants, or railroads is not a great nation for long. A people who know what must be done but cannot do it will soon cease to believe in self government altogether. On this point, I find myself in full agreement. They understand something e...
Buried under the unbearable lightness of infinite information
How much does a hipster weigh? An “insta” gram. Har har har. But wait really how much is that? It doesn’t sound like a lot, does it? Avalanches offer a great metaphor for experiencing the digital revolution not least because information, like snow, is super light yet also capable of suffocation. We’ve all experienced the feeling of scrolling aimlessly through a social media feed, of checking email, texts and other notifications not really for any particular purpose, a loop excellently capture...
Buried under the unbearable lightness of infinite information
How much does a hipster weigh? An “insta” gram. Har har har. But wait really how much is that? It doesn’t sound like a lot, does it? Avalanches offer a great metaphor for experiencing the digital revolution not least because information, like snow, is super light yet also capable of suffocation. We’ve all experienced the feeling of scrolling aimlessly through a social media feed, of checking email, texts and other notifications not really for any particular purpose, a loop excellently capture...
Is context the critical ingredient for not getting buried by the information avalanche?
*This post is part of the information avalanche series. Part 1 lives here. *“Context is that which is scarce.” -Tyler CowenI lit up the Technology a few days back, a typical Tuesday, not dissimilar from any other. Several red icons flashed with numbers inside. A thread of text messages from friends. 47 iterations of back and forth squabbles. My neck tightened with the weight of knowing that at some point I would check those messages. I did not look forward. Instead I felt trapped in the persi...
Is context the critical ingredient for not getting buried by the information avalanche?
*This post is part of the information avalanche series. Part 1 lives here. *“Context is that which is scarce.” -Tyler CowenI lit up the Technology a few days back, a typical Tuesday, not dissimilar from any other. Several red icons flashed with numbers inside. A thread of text messages from friends. 47 iterations of back and forth squabbles. My neck tightened with the weight of knowing that at some point I would check those messages. I did not look forward. Instead I felt trapped in the persi...
Strategies for surviving the information avalanche
Some initial thoughts…. epistemic status: summarizing reflections that I’ve been mulling for several years but things that I’m still testing and refining in operation. What do we mean when we say the digital revolution changes everything? Some things obviously don’t change like our biological need for food, water and shelter. Yet some aspects of the human condition, like how we share information with each other and understand the world around us, emphatically are transformed. The internet off...
Strategies for surviving the information avalanche
Some initial thoughts…. epistemic status: summarizing reflections that I’ve been mulling for several years but things that I’m still testing and refining in operation. What do we mean when we say the digital revolution changes everything? Some things obviously don’t change like our biological need for food, water and shelter. Yet some aspects of the human condition, like how we share information with each other and understand the world around us, emphatically are transformed. The internet off...
