alternative futures: the end of usury

this is the beginning of an alternative futures project my little (fraternity) brother and i schemed up. its structure is inspired by the renga form. the subject: usury.

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more, less brief reflections from the on being gathering

a few, longer, more detailed reflections from my time at the on being gathering.

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brief reflections from the on being gathering

i got back this morning (like 1a e.s.t.) from california coming off of the first on being gathering. it was beautiful and problematic (as are most things). here are just a few highlight reflections that i want not to forget.

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re-examining my relationship with the internet

so this is by no means a new idea, but i’m doing some serious reflection on my relationship with the internet this year (2018).

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book reviews: kindred and the future

i wrote this post because i'm trying to keep up (better than i did last year) with writing my farnham street blog styled book reviews. i said last year i'd write the 3 sentence review as soon as i finished the book but that didn't really work out that well. i ended up writing a bunch of reviews all at the end of the year because i couldn't find the time to write them at the moment i finished the books. i'm going to try a new strategy this year which is to save two of these at a time and then take my daily 10 minutes a day writing practce to write the two reviews, spending 5 mins on each. here's to experimenting my way through unknown territory!

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