Oct 9, 2022
A nice forest. Photo: Jody Amiet/AFP/Getty Images. When it’s dry, and trees are thirsty, the forest emits large amounts of nice-smelling, piney chemicals called terpenes.…
Sep 16, 2022
I went to try the veggie burrito at Aliberto’s. It’s very good.
While I was eating, a woman1 came in, went to the counter, and gave the details of the order she was picking up to the man behind the counter (Latin-American, native Spanish speaker).…
Sep 15, 2022
I just watched some of the videos of the talks from the “Schelling Point Conference”. These talks give a clear display of a current within the crypto/web3 space: techno-utopianism.…
Jul 16, 2022
I recently read a blog post analyzing various purported “socially responsible investing” (SRI) products and showing how they were anything but.…
Mar 24, 2022
There is a nice idea – which I learned from the work of David Harvey (or in podcast form) – of analyzing society in terms of a number of “moments”, or aspects of society at a given moment in time.…