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10 Days of Type 2 Fun / Sitting a Vipassana Course
I just wrapped up a ten-day Vipassana service in Malaysia.
Jun 20
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January 2025
Singapore dialogue on monopoly and regional stability
Three friends sit down for $150 of food—three beers, three cheese burgers, and three french fries.
Jan 17
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September 2024
Monet, or The Artist as Silver Halide Surface
The longstanding way I’ve thought about Monet specifically, and Impressionist art broadly, is as a movement that sought to capture the ‘subjective…
Sep 3, 2024
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March 2024
On multitudes
YM: What are we going to do today?
Mar 17, 2024
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March 2023
On Babylon (2022), the Blockhouse, Spectacle and Violence
Damien Chazelle’s 2022 Babylon is a boom-time meditation on spectacle and violence.
Mar 2, 2023
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November 2022
On Craigslist / EBay as community content portals
EBay is one of the most compelling content platforms on the modern internet.
Nov 11, 2022
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October 2021
On heterogeneity and set theory in product design
I’ve been trying to understand NFTs.
Oct 21, 2021
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On the Ethereum network as hyperobject
“In The Ecological Thought I coined the term hyperobjects to refer to things that are massively distributed in time and space relative to humans.
Oct 13, 2021
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June 2021
On the Enjoyment of Chernobyl
Madmen (2007 - 2015) succeeded as spectacle by opening a window of taboo enjoyment onto the 1950s, when gender roles were unquestionably binary…
Jun 30, 2021
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The Alphasmart Neo2: Bad UI as Good UI
One of my favourite newfound pieces of technology (on which I’m writing this essay) is the AlphaSmart Neo2.
Jun 23, 2021
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A good live-streaming setup is a well-tailored suit.
In the 1980s and 1990s a common piece of advice for people working in the professional managerial class was to ‘dress for the job you want, not for the…
Jun 21, 2021
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On queues and contract-enforcement through hair in the Qing dynasty
The Qing Dynasty imposed a distinct hairstyle on its Han subjects—the queue (辮子).
Jun 18, 2021
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