“Silence is compliance” is a phrase that many people toss off without thinking through how it…
In 1959, C.P. Snow delivered a lecture called The Two Cultures, about a vexing divide…
or, an Outline of Everything I’ve Read on Twitter in 2020 so far
I somehow just stumbled across a years-old interview with the actor John Cho, who, like me, is of Korean ethnic background. The…
When I first started getting glum about the future, I thought that maybe I was just getting old and grumpy. But now I’ve…
In the future, the police as we know it today will not exist.
Many people have remarked that this month is the longest in memory, so much so that as you lie awake…
Although being a visionary seems fruitful, you never want to be too far ahead of the times. When you can predict…
I named this blog “ginsudo” in 2007, saying that it means “the way of ginsu.” That was a lazy evasion, as the natural follow-up question should be “Sure, but what exactly is your way?” And I had no answer.