Riding the web3 wave. I setup this account to document the adventure. Hoping one day the Mondragon accord will be a thing.
Exploring the protocol stack of my hometown
In January of last year, the Eaton and Palisades fires showed in clear and present terms the cost of inaction on the climate crisis. Fires are common in Southern California, a fixture really, yet January's fires were the worst in LA's history, pushed deep into the urban core by hurricane force winds. Our cities operate in a twilight hour between two worlds. One world is the familiar machinery of departments, forms, and workflows that feel carved in stone. The other is the emerging landscape o...
Exploring the protocol stack of my hometown
In January of last year, the Eaton and Palisades fires showed in clear and present terms the cost of inaction on the climate crisis. Fires are common in Southern California, a fixture really, yet January's fires were the worst in LA's history, pushed deep into the urban core by hurricane force winds. Our cities operate in a twilight hour between two worlds. One world is the familiar machinery of departments, forms, and workflows that feel carved in stone. The other is the emerging landscape o...
Maybe in my backyard: MIMBY
A call to focus on fixing California's underlying broken planning processes
Maybe in my backyard: MIMBY
A call to focus on fixing California's underlying broken planning processes
The Word “Work” Weasels Into Way Too Many Concepts
And carries too much baggage. A meditation composed with effortless assistance from my new artificial amanuensis.
The Word “Work” Weasels Into Way Too Many Concepts
And carries too much baggage. A meditation composed with effortless assistance from my new artificial amanuensis.
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
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
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...
