If you watch me closely (which would be weird but I make it easy enough) you have surely noticed I spend much of my life traveling. I’ve got no training in psychology but it sure seems like a certain personality type takes their childhood traumas and does exposure therapy till it becomes enjoyable. I had […]
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I’m surely not even the millionth person to make note of this phenomena, but drivers are getting worse and it’s very much the sorts of drivers you’d expect to be the culprits. Let me tell you a humorous story about getting sideswiped not once but twice in less than week by ditzy women driving bottom […]
The ChinaTalk Substack has an excellent analysis of the “Net Left” (wang zuo, 网左). A group of young Chinese yearn for the cultural revolution era. Accordingly to the essay, the “Net Left” traces its earliest roots to a niche group on Weibo between 2011 and 2015 known as the “Franco Left” (fa zuo, 法左). An […]
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Day 1846 and Doctor’s Orders
I have had a lot of experience with doctors over the last few years. A chronic autoimmune condition isn’t the sort of illness that gets “better” like a virus. It can only be managed. I have come up with endless ways of collaborating with people who far too often believe they are more informed, powerful […]
A friend of mine James Pogue published an opinion piece long in the making about a new kind of Democratic. He deeply investigates the subtly misunderstood Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington. I was really moved by his sincere engagement with a new kind of Democrat who is really an old kind of Democrat who […]
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Day 1828 and Collective Warmth
I feel lucky to have acquired an education that taught enough of totalitarian history that I feel I can paraphrase Walter Benjamin. I’d used to say well we all know “fascism is the aestheticization of politics” because academics helped me to be skeptical about theory and Marxism. Benjamin saw the logical result of fascism is […]
I have spent a lot of time in various states of concern, sadness and frustration this year. Which is too bad, as so many incredible things have happened to me. We passed a right to compute law. Valar Atomics took “accelerate” way more seriously than most. It’s hard to balance knowing the future won’t be […]
There are many benefits to a networked world but there are many destabilizing aspects to opening up the world to all of us. I’ve been slogging through Vladislav Zubok “Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union” which refutes the widely held belief that the collapse was inevitable. He argues that Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms, aimed at […]
The only certain things in life are death and taxes. Death only happening once seems like the sort of thing that shouldn’t be taxed. Everything in-between is taxed? Or maybe it’s the ultimate tax. We disperse back into the system. Taxes are not necessarily monetary (try saying that five times fast), rather we are always […]
If there is one complaint Americans have about Europe (and no this isn’t about air conditioning) it is their insistence on playing the worst kind of nightclub music absolutely everywhere. You are getting your morning espresso and it’s trashy club music. You go eat at a normal neighborhood spot for a quiet dinner and you […]