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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…