Riding the web3 wave. I setup this account to document the adventure. Hoping one day the Mondragon accord will be a thing.
California: Between Hype and Hysteria
Since the dawn of the new millennium, California has increasingly been cast in two wildly different films. In one, it is a smoldering dystopia. Broke. Burning. Unaffordable. Fleeing residents in rented U-Hauls headed for Texas. In the other, it is a sun-drenched dreamscape. The birthplace of the internet. The laboratory of climate action. A place so dynamic it could stand alone as a nation state. Both movies contain truth. Neither is the whole story. If California were a country, it would ran...
California: Between Hype and Hysteria
Since the dawn of the new millennium, California has increasingly been cast in two wildly different films. In one, it is a smoldering dystopia. Broke. Burning. Unaffordable. Fleeing residents in rented U-Hauls headed for Texas. In the other, it is a sun-drenched dreamscape. The birthplace of the internet. The laboratory of climate action. A place so dynamic it could stand alone as a nation state. Both movies contain truth. Neither is the whole story. If California were a country, it would ran...
Rekindling California's capacity to dream
Hand crafted artisanal musings
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
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...
