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Monitoring the Situation: from 1950s-2020s
I had a ridiculous thought that I’d like to go to the Situation Room type bar (apparently it didn’t go well) to monitor the situation if it had a more 1950s Cold War vibe. That led me to make a series of images, decade by decade. Which turn...
Strange Knowledgeability
The book club pick for June was a bit of a wildcard. Robert Darnton’s The Business of the Enlightenment, about the first modern encyclopedia, Diderot’s 18th century Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métier...
Search, Discovery, Pills, and Portals
The distinction between search and discovery appears straightforward. Search connects people to things they already want. Discovery introduces them to things they did not know they wanted. This distinction underlies much contemporary thinki...
A Camera, Not an Engine II
I hadn’t originally planned on writing a sequel to my December, 2023 essay, A Camera, Not an Engine. It seemed like a mostly complete thesis when I first wrote. But it’s become increasingly clear in the 2.5 years since I wrote it that the t...
Touching Time
I touched some literal grass today. I don’t think the phrase means what the young people think it does.
I was touching grass not because I particularly wanted to, but because my wife needed some help repotting her tomato plants. Neither of...
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