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A Brief Meditation on Divine Discontent

We are the inheritors of the restless. When once there was empty field, they dreamed and from their dreams a city called Rome was born…

May 3, 2023

May 3, 2023

The Shrinking World of Children

In Matt Yglesias’s new book, One Billion Americans, he argues that one of the reasons parents aren’t having as many kids as they want is…

Sep 9, 2022

The Shrinking World of Children

Sep 9, 2022

The (Computationally) Post-Scarcity World

What is legibility

Apr 10, 2022

The (Computationally) Post-Scarcity World

Apr 10, 2022

Trust the Experts

Organizations should put competent people in charge of things and fire those who prove incompetent

Jun 4, 2021

Jun 4, 2021

Development without Developers

Strategies for capital requirement reductions

Mar 1, 2021

Development without Developers

Mar 1, 2021

The Gentrification Aesthetic

How Capital reshapes our environment

Feb 27, 2021

The Gentrification Aesthetic

Feb 27, 2021

The Beauty of Illegibility

Modern design, web design specifically, is often highly oriented towards making the digital environment maximally legible. Designers want…

Feb 22, 2021

The Beauty of Illegibility

Feb 22, 2021

Fighting Climate Change on Foreign Soil

Note: This is a less-edited version of my article on Exponents that includes more details and math

May 30, 2020

May 30, 2020

The New Age of Social Engineering

Why have so many online social networks failed to form healthy communities, and instead gained notoriety as hostile spaces? I argue that…

Dec 7, 2019

Dec 7, 2019

Anthropic Plot Armor

Why is plot armor bad? The answer is generally obvious, because it reduces the capacity for drama in a story. If the reader knows that a…

Feb 20, 2019

Feb 20, 2019

VivaLaPanda

VivaLaPanda

I’m a software developer in Oakland and founding engineer at Elict. I like exploring the obscure, celebrating the unique, art that knows what it is, and silhoue

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