Category: Blog
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Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky
This was a great book. I think it pairs naturally with Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends and Influence People, Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power, and his other book, The Art of Seduction. Hillary Clinton famously wrote her dissertation about the work of Saul Alinsky, inventor of community organizing. Obama famously made this his…
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Topic Paper: Intersectionality
CJ Trowbridge SOC 110: Intro To Social Justice 2018-09-11 Topic Paper: Intersectionality The authors of reading #4 state “from our perspective, no one form of oppression is the base for all others, yet all are connected within a system that makes them possible.” (pg. 23) Referencing your readings and our class discussion/lecture, discuss the impact…
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Inspirations
Several figures are inspirations for this project. Chief among them is Pieter Levels. His open revenue dashboard shows his several projects and monthly revenue, along with a graph. His dashboard also shows the status of many serverless bots which perform tasks to facilitate his projects. This enables him to be an effective solopreneur and digital…
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Early Vehicle Ideas
Blueprints As you can see here, four side-facing murphy beds are at the rear of the trailer. These can fold up and down to allow lots of extra storage while in transit. Two Ikea 2×4 Kallax shelves are mounted to the walls just forward of the beds. These allow plenty of personal storage for campers.…
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Takeaways
Another amazing year at Burning Man! The man burn was amazing as you can see in this video… View this post on Instagram The man has burned! 365 days until the man burns. A post shared by CJ Trowbridge (@cjtrowbridge) on Sep 2, 2018 at 6:20am PDT Probably the most dangerous thing I…
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Stealth Trailer Goals and Concepts
I would love to build something like this for Burning Man and other adventures. Here are some of my initial ideas… Innovative Power Grid There is no reason to have inverters running 24/7. There is no reason to duplicate the wasteful norms of on-grid houses. Two or three full-sized solar panels on the roof and…
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Topic Paper: Power Dynamics
CJ Trowbridge 2018-09-04 Soc 110: Intro to Social Justice Topic Paper: Power Dynamics Selection #3: Johnson’s “The Social Construction of Difference” Johnson quotes James Baldwin’s statement that “No one is white before he/she came to America. It took generations, and a vast amount of coercion, before this became a white country.” He uses this statement…
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Micro Grids and Burning Man
Elon Musk famously came up with the idea for Solar City while at burning man, observing the ubiquitous microgrids which power the temporary city. Every home should work this way, he reasoned. At Burning Man, each city block has many microgrids. They range from very small to very large, and they take many forms. There…
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“Str8 4 trans ONLY” [Draft]
Sublimation Is The New Reaction-Formation For Homophobia Freud argued that all neurotic or psychologically atypical behavior is caused by dissonance. He defined dissonance as when the person one is, is different from the person one feels one should be. He argued that this causes what he called repression; the dissonance is pushed into the unconscious…
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Social Identities Pie
CJ Trowbridge 2018-08-22 SOC 110: Intro To Social Justice Social Identities Pie I have decided to analyze each component of my identity in descending order by the amount of conscious deliberate attention I put into them. My strongest and most conscious identity is probably related to my sexuality and my identity as a gay person.…