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Ego Cocoon
I went to Burning Man last week. Overwhelmingly, an excellent experience. Hopefully to be repeated annually ad infinitum. But not entirely blissful. There were extended periods of challenge and struggle, mostly concerned with the creation of identity in a place in… Continue reading
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Letter to a Young Cooperator
Standing door duty at one of the breakout sessions at Personal Democracy Forum, a session titled “Labs for Social and Economic Empowerment”, I hear a familiar refrain: I’m a student, and very involved in my local cooperative movement. I wanted… Continue reading
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Thoughts on Personality Types
Ask yourself: do you believe that people come in types? Or do you believe that every person is fundamentally, non-trivially unique? Imagine yourself at a party. You see people standing in circles, engaged in conversation. Others are moving through the… Continue reading
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Photography!
Whew. Work and school and the non-profit are demanding. Where can there be respite? Photography. But photography is easy. Anyone can do it, now. Without without standards, without challenge, there’s no purpose (in my opinion). Photography with some feedback, now… Continue reading
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Some Trends Regarding Technology and Society
Some trends to think about: First, consider the shift from desktop and laptop computers towards mobile phones and tablets as most people’s primary source of computation, and their principal gateway to the internet. We interact with desktops via keyboard and mouse. A… Continue reading
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Robert and Amman
Robert: Good morning. Amman: Hello. Robert: Shall we begin? Amman: Yes. beat Robert: My people are worried, cousin. They sense that they are being misunderstood. Amman: I am aware. It is unfortunate, what happened last week. Robert: It was a murder.… Continue reading
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Two Kinds of Work
I was studying probability with Hannah, a classmate of mine, earlier tonight and our conversation found its way to the kinds of work we might want to seek out after we finish our program. We started talking and began exchanging… Continue reading
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Motivation
A few years ago, I saw a quote basically like this one, which I thought was funny: Every brave act any man has ever performed was because he thought there was a woman watching. I tried finding the exact quote,… Continue reading
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Dependency & Obligation
Who do we allow to depend on us? I’ve been struggling with this question a lot lately. It’s been brought on by two recent unexpected deaths, as well as the more mundane struggle of balancing obligations to work with obligations to friends,… Continue reading
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The Purpose of New York
Everyone on the trains always look so sad… – Dianne Dianne is a particularly special friend of mine, from long ago and far away. She recently wrapped up her undergrad career at a particularly unfortunate safety school, and is in New… Continue reading
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