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Reframing the “Social Media” Problem As an Attention Crisis

Every journalist has a “take” on Social Media. And most people are familiar with the battle lines now around “fake news”, “free speech”…

Dec 31, 2021

Reframing the “Social Media” Problem As an Attention Crisis

Dec 31, 2021

Peter Wang

Goodbye, Mom

My dear mother, Liu Bihua, died suddenly on March 12th, at the much-too-early age of 69. I delivered a eulogy at her funeral, but due to…

Mar 18, 2020

Goodbye, Mom

Mar 18, 2020

Peter Wang

The Futurescope

Imagine a future-scope: You hold it up to your eyes, and it shows you what the scene in front of you looks like, some amount of time into…

Jul 16, 2019

The Futurescope

Jul 16, 2019

Peter Wang

A Different View of Cathedrals

Here’s a different way of thinking about large religious structures that only serve ceremonial value and no astronomical value.

Mar 24, 2019

A Different View of Cathedrals

Mar 24, 2019

Peter Wang

State of the P.Wang, 2018

So much has happened since I last wrote a long-form blog post here.

Oct 20, 2018

Oct 20, 2018

Peter Wang

Amazing Seth Abramson Thread about Donald Trump, Domestic Terrorist

Seth Abramson has written an amazing thread about what Donald Trump represents, and the destruction he is wreaking among the American…

Sep 26, 2017

Amazing Seth Abramson Thread about Donald Trump, Domestic Terrorist

Sep 26, 2017

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Rally Point Journal

Freedom 2.0 / Towards a New Physics of Human Systems

(For those who are are interested in discussion, elaboration, and action around these ideas, check out the Facebook Group: Rally Point…

May 5, 2017

Freedom 2.0 / Towards a New Physics of Human Systems

May 5, 2017

Peter Wang

The Changing Nature of Scarcity

Economics is the study of scarcity in human systems. War and the use of physical force is a popular option for resolving or changing the…

Feb 4, 2017

The Changing Nature of Scarcity

Feb 4, 2017

Peter Wang
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Emergent Culture

The Information-Terror Complex

“On the Origin of Terror in the Breakdown of the Bipartisan Myth”

Feb 1, 2017

The Information-Terror Complex

Feb 1, 2017

Peter Wang

Story of Stories (Orientation, Part 3)

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’ Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell…

Jan 31, 2017

Story of Stories (Orientation, Part 3)

Jan 31, 2017

Peter Wang

Peter Wang

Python for data & scientific analysis, data exploration, & interactive visualization. Co-founder @AnacondaInc, creator of http://PyData.org & @PyDataConf

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