Category: Blog
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Asus C302CA Chromebook Review (9/10)
I have spent a couple weeks now getting to know this machine before posting this Asus C302CA Chromebook Review. Overall, it is a great machine and a perfect for for a student and software engineer like me. There are a couple imperfections, but this is a really great laptop which I look forward to using…
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To call up a demon you must learn its name.
There is an idea I’ve been trying to articulate and synthesize for some time. I don’t think I accomplish it here, but this is a step in the right direction. I think back to my favorite book series The Sprawl Trilogy, and to Peter Thiel’s book Zero to One, and an interview between Garry Kasparov and…
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Startup 8: Stardate.Today
For years, I have calendared prolifically. (Is that a word?) I track all the granular details: my to-do list is on one calendar; all my classes and homework; my social life; gym, yoga and exercise; and previously my jobs at Tech 2u and Starbucks. Each of these topics is on its own color-coded calendar within…
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❤️ Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy – The Ethical Slut
At burning man last year, I attended a wedding. There is some sweet 360 footage in a recent post about burning man. The bride and groom gave unusual vows, promising to respect and never try to change one-another rather than the traditional vow of forsaking all others. And there were other differences from the traditional…
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My Favorite Songs
Any time someone hears that I have been a professional DJ for over fourteen years, the first question they ask is what music I like. And it’s a question I almost never give a good answer to. So I decided to compile my very favorite songs here. Coffee shop soundtrack by All Time Low doesn’t…
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Goals Update: 2017-09-07
Major overhaul Removed lots of things from this list and from my life. Divided everything on here into three block-level sections: Current Goals Long-Term Goals Potential Goals I have made tremendous progress since my last update. I am no longer working at Tech 2U I have a strong safety net in place I am well…
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[Working Draft] Smarter Sockets
This is something I looked long and hard for, before deciding to build it myself. Also, a school project pulled this off the shelf and added some urgency. Last year I completed a similar but very early proof-of-concept prototype just for the web-controlled relay board. It didn’t have the parallel shift registers, the relay board, or…
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Rebutting the Fallacious “Paradox of Tolerance”
So first, let’s define the Paradox itself. I will defer to this excerpt from Wikipedia; Philosopher Karl Popper defined the paradox in 1945 in The Open Society and Its EnemiesVol. 1. …Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend…
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On “Othering”
Recently, I listened to an interview of Dr Zimbardo of the Stanford Prison Experiment, who has lately been studying what makes people and especially groups of people either evil or heroic under pressure. The number one thing that makes a person or group evil is what he calls “othering.” If instead of disagreeing with…
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Startup 7: Top Story Review
This is part of a series on Building 12 Startups in 12 Months. This is number seven: TopStoryReview.com! Black-Box News is Bad If you look at the news on Google or Facebook , you will see a few stories which some mysterious algorithm has selected for you. Are these an accurate reflection of current events?…