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Politics: What’s The Point
“I don’t want to talk about politics.” “Please don’t bring that up.” “Ugh, I hate this conversation” These are pretty common statements in my life in regards to politics. On one level, I get it....
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Who Wants To Live Forever?
Apparently a lot of people want to live forever. Last week I read an article about cryonics company, Alcor, and their founder. Apparently he passed away. A couple of years ago I read the book...
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Has every society had a bieber?
I got into the car with Justin Bieber pouring is saccharine platitudes out of my speakers. It made me wonder are we some freakish society that bears children, trains them to train themselves to be pop...
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Technology and Platform Companies
The aim of most businesses is to create wealth for those working at it. Generally it is preferred to do this in a sustainable, scalable fashion so that wealth may continue to be generated for a long...
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The Art of Technology Problem Solving
Here’s a lovely piece about how curiosity has less CPU horsepower than an iPhone5. The very cool thing I key on here is the clever solution to this incredible technical achievement of having a rover on...
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Boston, America, and Violence
#BostonMarathon Been thinking about this since I got off a plane from vacation today. Tonight I came home after dinner to NBC News doing a special on what this recent bombing at the marathon means...
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What’s the Point
Operational Definition of the “purpose” of various constructs and concepts that may or may not matter to you, me or anyone else. Big Data – Due to reduction in resource costs and improved technique,...
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The Question is The Thing
In Defense of The Question Is The Thing I’ve oft been accused of being all vision with little to no practical finishing capability. That is, people see me as a philosopher not a doer. Perhaps a defense...
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Why?
Last week hanging out with some coworkers in the middle of a heated philosophical conversation someone paused and asked me (paraphrasing), “Why do you ask all these questions? why ask about what...
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The Guts it Takes To Educate
I’d say it takes a lot of guts to directly educate your children……except that it doesn’t. It actually takes far more guts to entrust your children to the bizarre, antiquated system of education that...
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The Ideal Education
As learners, Skinner said, “we are automatically reinforced when we successfully control the physical world (ibid:75).” Teaching implies the identification of desired outcomes and precise planning of...
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Impasse Rebuttal Preamble
Recently, the collective members of MonkeyWrench Books and Pallaksch Press in Austin, TX published a set of essays in book form called “Impasses.” Here I intend to respond to the essays and the...
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Response to “On Questions and Answers” from IMPASSES
The first essay presented in IMPASSES ”On Questions and Answers: Some Notes on How To Do Ideas” offers a compelling call to reject all ideologies and to engage in “continued experiments in...
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A Short Ode to Computers
Computing Technology enables great shifts in perspective. I’ve long thought about sharing why I love computing so much. Previously I’m not sure I could articulate it without a great deal of confusion...
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Response one to “Tent City, Tent Tent City” Essay in IMPASSES
Homelessness, then, is a social relationship produced by an archipelago of vacant property and those who keep it so. This system of properties and their managers manifests itself in laws, vouchers,...
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Response Two to “Tent City, Tent Tent City” of IMPASSES
In “Tent City, Tent Tent City” we learn of the movement in Austin to create a roaming Tent City to inspire awareness and legislative change around ideas of homelessness. The tent city uprising piggy...
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Response to IMPASSES “Liquidating Existence: Identity, Violence and The Future”
I found the third essay in IMPASSES to be a ramble of mashed up of cited works that largely relies on hyperbolic semantics to make a point. What the point really is I’m unable to decipher other than...
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Response to IMPASSES “exploring critiques of the accountability process”
The discussion of accountability and consent in anarchist and collective groups is very interesting to me. The groups are loosely organized groups that tend to impose few, if any, rigid structures and...
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