Constructive Criticism

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Apr 17, 2025
How to make a call tree that still works when people flake
I believe techniques from math and science are able to help us produce stronger organizations (if the educational and political barriers can be worked through).…
Mar 31, 2025
Capital in Transit
This is a piece I made recently titled In Transit. It depicts paths, which each transition from random motion to a regular spiral motion as the letters along the path grow.…
Mar 11, 2025
Contradiction
Mao wrote The law of contradiction in things, that is, the law of the unity of opposites, is the basic law of materialist dialectics… The fundamental cause of the development of a thing is not external but internal; it lies in the contradictoriness within the thing.…
Feb 26, 2025
Math is about managing your emotions
Recently I have been doing some math again. Mostly exercises for a class I’m auditing on combinatorial limits. One thing I forgot about math is how most of the time spent doing math is spent feeling very frustrated: why can’t I get this problem?…
Feb 17, 2025
Badiou in the world
$$\newcommand{\Set}[1]{\{ #1 \}}$$ In his book Logics of Worlds, Badiou gives a formal mathematical definition of a “world”, but does not construct a single concrete example.…