The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the…
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the…
We’ve been selling our house, and so I’m playing a few weeks of catch-up here. Friday links come first: — Disease isn’t something that just happens instantaneously, it’s your body being unable to fight off whatever’s happening to it. Welcome to “Your Body’s Never Not…
The world we live in today is built on top of an industrialized substrate that was created in the early 20th Century. From education, to business, to governance, we’ve been building on top of this substrate for over a hundred years without questioning it. And…
— Daniel Suarez has a great series of sci-fi books I’ve been catching up on. The first book in the series, Delta-V, is excellent and I’d highly recommend it. I got into Suarez’s work back when I read Daemon and then Freedom(TM), and can…
Computer games, more so than many other artistic mediums, are bound by their delivery mechanisms. Think of the last five games you’ve played, and how you’ve interacted with them. Quite likely, your experience went something like this: your hands engaged with a standard control interface…
It was over a decade ago that I started my first NFP (non-profit). Since then, I’ve chaired various NFP organizations or served as an officer or administrator within them. Something’s changed over that time — they’ve gotten more ravenous. Desirous of funding at any cost…
Innovation has been reduced to simply building upon existing industrial-era systems and methods, as has disruption. Think about it – can you name a single instance of disruption that did not rely on an already-established industrial system? We must go beyond this surface level and…
Welcome to our first version of a Friday post released the following Thursday, but pre-dated for last Friday. Make sense? This week we’re talking ammunition, disconnection, and AI alignment. — A cool 6-channel stereo mixer with built-in equalizer, filters, compressor, aux send, cue and digital…
“I believe that one of the greatest causes of the ecological crisis is the state of personal alienation from nature in which many people live. We lack a widespread sense of intimacy with the living world. Natural history has never been more popular in some…
— My wife bought me a Soda Stream last year, and it’s been in almost-daily use since then. Little did I know, there were other handy uses for it outside of carbonated drinks. For instance, preserving your greens. — Danielle Riendeau over at Game Developer…