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 […]
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This Thanksgiving I am feeling particularly grateful for the exceptions in my life. My world is filled with the exceptionally rare. Rare people, insights, businesses, and outcomes are part of building something genuinely new. I suspect I’ll have to justify my faith in investing in and introducing new technologies to the world. We are doing […]
“But I’m not a math person!” Did you ever use that excuse as a kid? I know I did. Alas my mother did not tolerate my lame attempts to leverage available excuses like being a girl. She still teaches from a core belief that if mastery comes from practice anyone can develop competency with effort […]
My inner child finds the idea asking if “you want to see something gross” to be funny. Of course, I want to see. Gore and violence don’t get this reaction from me. I dislike it in movies and in the real world. But to see gross and the weird in the real world. I get […]
I am considering doing more writing, but instead of it being an exercise in creating more, I am interested in writing about how to consume well, so meet Nice Packaging, a beauty shopping column with a b side about the business of keeping up appearances. Background on why I want to do this is below, […]
Julie Fredrickson examines Nick Land’s philosophical legacy, internet reactionary thought and futurism, and the pun of a “Land acknowledgment” as cultural commentary on ideology, identity, and digital geography
I am quite jet lagged today so I am unsure if this will be coherent but “it’s practice” so here I am. I am in the middle of my own biochemical storms as the wider algorithmic storms of the web remain at hurricane strength. My own teapot tempests hardly matter against the gale force nihilism […]
I have been writing every single day for seventeen hundred days. 1700 days is approximately 4.66 years or 4 years and 7ish months. Not bad right? This is quite a bit longer than I anticipated when I first began writing daily with the relatively modest ambition to write once a day for a month. I […]
One of the most unsettling aspects of having a deep tissue infection surgically removed is watching the hole fill itself back in from the bottom up. It doesn’t look like normal tissue as it regrows. When deep tissue wounds heal from the bottom up, the new dermal tissue appears white because it consists of immature […]
Day 1671 and Warenästhetik
I have a favorite book store in San Francisco is called City Lights. It’s an old Beat bookstore that carried the city through its left wing era. They have a section called commodity aesthetics from which I treat myself to a fresh book from every time I visit San Francisco. I’ve got quite a collection […]