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Reading Balaji Srinivasan In This Gutenberg Moment

I discovered Balaji Srinivasan last march. He was on Tim Ferris’ podcast. He’s a biochemist by training and a serial entrepreneur most recently with Coinbase. I was struck by…
Uncategorized September 12, 2021September 20, 2021 3 min read

On Fading Photos and Surviving Memories

An orange shoebox of drugstore prints I remember discovering a glossy orange box of drug-store color prints, jammed overfull, stuffed with the condensed photos of my father’s life. They…
Uncategorized December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 4 min read

Book Chapter

I wrote a thing that’s going to be in this book. “What Job is a Conspiracy Theory Doing? Why American Christians are Particularly Vulnerable to the Narratives of the…
epistemology, Future, pandemic, religion October 11, 2020 1 min read

What Job is a Conspiracy Theory Doing?

Saturday morning, I saw a post from my friend, Brandon, who lives in Manhattan, the early epicenter of the pandemic in the US. It showed a scrawled subway wall note…
epistemology, Future, pandemic July 12, 2020October 11, 2020 2 min read

Do Americans need to see videos of COVID killing us before we take collective action?

Last week in California a 51 year old man died of COVID the day after expressing regret for attending a barbeque with friends. One person went who wasn’t showing symptoms and…
epistemology, Future, pandemic June 12, 2020October 11, 2020 2 min read

Learning Design Principles From the First Cyborgs: People with Diabetes

‪My daughter has type 1 diabetes. To keep her alive we use a few wearable devices embedded in her body to sense her blood glucose and add the insulin…
Cyborg, Design Thinking, Uncategorized May 8, 2019April 14, 2022 5 min read

How to Start Building Your App Idea Today

People regularly approach me to share ideas they have for new apps.  This is great because I love to talk to people who are excited about some new thing…
Uncategorized December 10, 2018October 11, 2020 5 min read

What Kinds of Emotions Arise from the Internet’s Body?

I recently attended a design conference where several presenters confidently asserted that since emotions are an inherently embodied experience they are thus not possible for artificial intelligences to experience…
Cyborg October 26, 2018October 29, 2018 2 min read

Design, Science & Adaptation

If technology is the stand-in for biology in the evolutionary process (once it becomes managed by conscious minds Kelly, 2011), then design is the stand-in for adaptation, and an…
Design Thinking September 21, 2017October 11, 2020 Comments 0 1 min read
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