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Category: Essays

  • Deep catalog

    Maybe you spell out the prompt on your way home, inspired by the shape of tonight’s traffic more ›

  • World stage

    The young recognize no boundary between systems and applications, they will respect no mediocrity in your product design. more ›

  • Fault

    A world where reality is mixed, heightened by the flavors of infinite spectacles, and where justice is still possible. more ›

  • Siege

    Fate and coincidence conspire behind closed doors and establish a sense of inevitability in global affairs. more ›

  • Soufra

    The choice of metaphor matters: life on this planet did not evolve from a single, orderly tree-like structure, but from a loose and diverse conglomeration of primitive cells that flourished together. more ›

  • Pattern languages

    The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander, 1979, teaches us about form, function, the unforeseen effects of poor choices, and the things that should remain unsaid. more ›

  • Line jumpers

    To predict the near future with greater accuracy you must relinquish the idea of a fair game. more ›

  • Contactless

    Given enough bandwidth, even the warm sensation of touch might be simulated and perfected by machines – digital and otherwise. more ›

  • Bionic brethren

    How many vaccines can my body take, if Gates is right again and this is just the first episode in a pandemic season? What does my skill set look like, if… more ›

  • Post-global

    The power to direct the thinking or behavior of others, usually indirectly, is called influence. Authority, clout, credit, heft or leverage are some of its oblique synonyms. more ›