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Oct 6, 2019

Three Plans for Decreasing the Existential Risk Associated with an Extreme Runaway Warming Event

Humans are not great at understanding really big numbers. Billions? Trillions? What even comes next? These are quantities whose immensity defies our experience, and therefore they escape our powers of comparison, our powers of analogy, our powers of rationalization. We have not created adequate mental categories for quantitative entities at…

Climate Change

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Climate Change

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Apr 3, 2018

They Don’t Want You To Feel This Obvious

This is not the book of instruction I had intended but this is when the emptiness noticed its own beginning - Eileen Myles, The West (2017) My goal for this self-referential essay is to permanently break the world record for “Most World Records Broken By A Single Self-Referential Essay” and…

Movies

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They Don’t Want You To Feel This Obvious
They Don’t Want You To Feel This Obvious
Movies

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Apr 1, 2018

Snail, A Minimum Viable Utopia

Executive Summary This is Request for Requests for Utopia where the desired outcome is a set of concepts and stimulations that enables others to write Requests for Utopia. This means that this essay sets an example for laying out qualifications, specifications, line items and success criteria for a radically better…

Politics

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Politics

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May 29, 2016

My Tongue Twisters Workshop

This is the outline of a series of workshops written for 10yr-olds and enacted on location at 826 Valencia (a literary nonprofit in San Francisco). Group Intro: Why Are We Here? *To have fun learning tongue twisters *To get better practice using our voices *To write some tongue twisters *To…

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Writing

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