The Internet is Passive
Many articles about "the internet" are very wrong, and the flaws generally stem from a common source: implying, if not explicitly stating, that the internet does something. It doesn’t. It’s not...
View ArticleThe Beginning of the End
In Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, Clary Shirky writes:When reality is labeled unthinkable, it creates a kind of sickness in an industry. Leadership becomes faith-based, while employees who...
View ArticleConsistency
After seven months (feels longer) of writing nothing on typewriting.org, I should probably preface this by announcing my intention to pick up writing again. Since I last wrote here, I bought a house,...
View ArticleReality
I think the obvious next step beyond a set of ideas being internally consistent is keeping those ideas consistent with the universe. For better or worse, the universe is our context, and it doesn’t...
View ArticleNew Shoes
I was recently reminded this blog is here by a nice comment that began "Please keep posting", so here I am, keeping posting. I last posted over a year ago, and in that year I turned 30 (then 31),...
View ArticleDenver Mayor 2011: My Vote
I haven’t been paying much attention to the candidates for Mayor of Denver this year, but I just got my mail-in ballot, so now it’s time to figure out how I’m voting. As I’ve done before, I’m going to...
View ArticleDenver Mayor 2011: My Second Vote
My voting strategy in Denver's Mayoral race worked much better than I imagined. My thinking was that Romer would win, and I should vote for someone else who seemed good, to keep Romer accountable. What...
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Remembering the Bear Attack
One of my group of friends sent us all a picture of a bear attack we experienced together a few years ago.That's me on the far right of the picture, in the background. I say "a few years ago" because I...
View ArticleOnline Identity
On Letters to an Unknown Audience, Ezra Kilty, whose trouser size is 31 x 33, quotes a passage from Master and Commander, ending with a paragraph on identity:"The identity I am thinking of is something...
View ArticleWords, Which are Important
I haven’t been paying much attention to Occupy Wall Street. It initially looked to me like the kind of disorganized protest that happens all the time, doesn’t have enough focus, and quickly dissipates...
View ArticleSince I Last Wrote
And the longer you don’t keep a public update, the bigger backlog you have to work through. “Since I last wrote … everything changed.” Hmm.— Scott Reynen (@scottr) February 19, 2014That was in response...
View ArticleReality as a Process
A long time ago I proposed “what exactly is reality?” as a question I would later answer. More recently I wrote on the same topic “I don’t know [...] I also don’t really care.” That was obviously not...
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