Rule #7 of the Hip Hop barbershop talk handbook states that any discussion sufficiently long will inevitably lead to the the infamous “Top 5 rappers, dead or alive” debate. If you’ve followed my work over the years, you know visualizing hip-hop intangibles is kind of my forte. From quantifying literary…

“Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t…” — Jay-Z

It’s estimated that you’ll sign up for over a hundred apps in your life. Social networks, fitness trackers, and even wine tasting apps require you to create an account, which means that pictures uploaded, calories burned, and merlot reviewed will all be stored on company servers. …

Located just 15 miles north of Apple Inc’s headquarters, the city fo East Palo Alto was America’s murder capital in 1992. The city had experienced 42 murders with a population of just 24,322 people, equating to 172.7 homicides per 100,000 residents. Later that same year, John Lahr, a concerned PhD…

Update: Apple announced they’re implementing this exact feature in iOS 14 “For food, you have nutrition labels…so we thought it would be great to have something similar for apps.” — Erik Neuenschwander, Apple’s user privacy manager, June 2020

Disclaimer: the following critique should by no means dissuade anyone from using Brave. I‘ve personally switched full time to Brave as a decade long Chrome user, and you should too if you care about your privacy. For the past 2 weeks I’ve been enthusiastically advocating Brave- the privacy oriented browser…

America’s neglect of the imperial system is widely mocked by much of the Western world and for a good reason- it’s batshit illogical. The U.S. is known to disregard worldwide standards in favor of its own quirky and often unintuitive systems of inches, ounces, and gallons. While the majority of…

Since the proliferation of music streaming services about a decade ago, the fundamental user experience has remained largely unchanged. It’s 2018 and Spotify is mostly a collection of manually saved songs and albums, alongside a myriad of pre-made playlists. The golden promise of a personalized experience- “the right music at…

“Science fiction is about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition” — Ted Chang The show Black Mirror has captivated millions of people with its dark take on technology’s societal impact. It explores emerging technologies and the potential dystopian scenarios they could create, with glimmers of…