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  • Who Are You? Thoughts On Identity

    June 14, 2013 · 4

    Identity is a complex thing. People who know me know I’m from Canada, despite living in the USA now. People here, in Boulder, know me as the Canadian if they can’t remember my name. When I go home, however, people call me the American. Live in any country other than your own long enough and […]

  • Resolutions are arbitrary. I hope they work.

    January 11, 2013 ·

    This is supposed to be my year. All of December I’ve been thinking about how I’m going to hit the ground running in 2013, how I’m going to finally accomplish all the things I want to do. I’m going to make videos regularly, actually write things for Technophilia in advance and I’m going to do […]

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  • Why Louis C.K. doesn’t let fans take pictures of him.

    May 17, 2012 · 6

    Are you having actual experiences? Or do you do things simply for the sake of recording and sharing them? It may seem like a silly question, but it’s worth thinking about. This week comedian Louis C.K. did an iama (“I Am A…”), which is essentialy an intrview with the Reddit hivemind. Reddit loves Louis, so […]

  • Bush’s “Decision Points” is profoundly surreal

    January 22, 2011 ·

    Perhaps others will read it differently, but to me Decision Points reads like the memoir of a trust fund kid who happened to stumble into the presidency.

  • People Talking Without Speaking: The Ignored Disaster

    September 24, 2010 · 3

    Sitting in front a computer. That’s what I do lately. It’s what most of us do lately. Learn the conventions of the web. Tweet it. Like it. Digg it. Write a snappy headline or no one will read it. Stay on top of the trends. It doesn’t matter whether that’s true or not; give people the […]

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