Essays
What Comes After Democracy?
Published April 2019
If I said that the United States operates on the principles of individual freedom, and gives the utmost importance to protecting those core freedoms, you’d probably agree right? And that these freedoms and this system helped to create the most powerful country in the world?
On Climate Change and Real Solutions
Published September 2019
Self Explantory
Out of the Interface, Back To The Frontier
Published October 2020
Are user interfaces killing progress?
Rediscovering and Using Ancient Ideas: Part 1
Published October 2020
The more control and rigidity you stumble for, the further away you get from what you want.
Tradition Rules Everything Around Me: Rediscovering and Using Ancient Ideas Part 2
Published December 2020
Tradition rules everything around us. We can't escape it, and we shouldn't.
Social Tokens and Incorporated Society
Published July 2021
What are the consequences if every person on Earth has a social token?
On Uniformity, Disparity, and Where We're Headed
Published 2020
When I was a kid, I loved baseball cards. In my after school YMCA program, I’d trade baseball cards with a friend, another kindred spirit who loved baseball just as much as I did (a lost art, since no one has the patience for baseball anymore). The trading was basic; you’d swap some duplicate card you had for something probably not that exciting. It was a monumental day when you came across an actual blockbuster trade.
When Having Fun Leads to Emptiness
Published 2020
Understanding social technologies, and what happens when economics take over our culture.
The Dark Side of a Universal Basic Income
Published 2019
UBI, or Universal Basic Income, has been touted by economists, technologists in Silicon Valley (like Y Combinator), and 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, as a solution to our growing inequality gap and a strategy to hedge against the coming AI takeover that will render millions of Americans unemployable?