“Being extremely online is bad for you” has become a kind of common knowledge position the era of smart phone ubiquity. Every knows that everyone knows it’s bad for you. It’s clear I do a lot of scrolling. I have an entire category here dedicated to internet culture. I am blessedly only addicted to Twitter. […]
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I’ve been involved in a few conversations about how some startups (alas deemed the Tech Right) have found themselves aligned with a very unexpected coalition of people. Whatever is happening it looks like a coalition of people who have lost institutional trust in the American ruling class has emerged as the majority. And naturally there […]
I partook in the time honored tradition of going to a mall before Christmas. My family was inconsistent in its treatment of the holiday when I was growing up and consumerism was not a value we celebrated. And yet now I think it’s a wonder America has exported the triumph of the American consumer at […]
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Day 1420 and Stimuli
I am always shocked when people say they read anything I write. This isn’t because I don’t think I’m worth listening to but because I know attention is such a scarce commodity. It’s so valuable we have entire industries dedicated to grabbing your attention. We don’t need to keep it necessarily we just need you […]
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Day 1360 and Strange Days
Maybe it’s always been “strange days indeed” and it’s naivety to think otherwise. You’d think the children of American hippies and yuppies would be some of the most cynical people alive and I’m regularly shocked by the sincerity of normies. And so while my hippie mother made sure I got all of the John Lennon, […]
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Day 1351 and Overstimulated
Recently I have the misfortune of paying too much attention the American election season. I feel overstimulated. I remember the 2020 campaign being stressful. I was naive during 2016. Now I find myself shunning information on polling and discourse on Twitter. Americans have jobs, families and the problems of real life during our elections. And […]
We are living in the past’s version of the future. The Cyperpunk I read in my youth is now the stuff of my daily life. It’s not as sleek as in fiction but it’s hard not to feel like it’s William Gibson’s world and I’m just living it. The clubs looked a little sleazier as […]
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Day 1272 and GWOT
As an elder millennial fascinated by the mass media I have a lot of mixed feelings on the American government and how it waged the “war on terror.” It is heavy on my mind with the current news of Julien Assange’s agreement with the American government. I think a lot about media, and in particular […]
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Day 1261 and the Jackpot
Dedicated roamers of the internet are people who like to notice things. Cyperpunk aesthetics made it romantic to experience global abstractions even as the reality of the power of oligarch, state and corporation blended into murky dystopian reality. I said recently on this photo that we’ve got to stop hyperstitioning William Gibson. We keep finding […]
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Day 1243 and Majesty
I love flying over mountain ranges. One of the highlights of living in the western Rocky Mountain Range is flying over peaks you’d never see any other way but by air. Air travel remains the most magic aspect of modern living. I’m transitioning through Munich on my way to Houston and eventually Austin for Consensus […]