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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…

2 min readMay 3, 2023

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VivaLaPanda

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…

6 min readSep 9, 2022

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The Shrinking World of Children

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The (Computationally) Post-Scarcity World

What is legibility

7 min readApr 10, 2022

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The (Computationally) Post-Scarcity World

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Trust the Experts

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

6 min readJun 4, 2021

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Development without Developers

Strategies for capital requirement reductions

6 min readMar 1, 2021

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Development without Developers

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The Gentrification Aesthetic

How Capital reshapes our environment

6 min readFeb 27, 2021

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The Gentrification Aesthetic

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VivaLaPanda

The Beauty of Illegibility

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

5 min readFeb 22, 2021

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The Beauty of Illegibility

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VivaLaPanda

Fighting Climate Change on Foreign Soil

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

8 min readMay 30, 2020

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VivaLaPanda

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…

14 min readDec 7, 2019

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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…

3 min readFeb 20, 2019

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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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