bill & ted’s unconscious competence

There’s a difference between having a plan and changing it, and never having one at all.

Gene Yoon in ginsudo

Feb 17, 2023

don’t be evil

“Don’t Be Evil.”

If you recognize this as Google’s former corporate motto, you probably regard it as a…

Gene Yoon in ginsudo

Jun 29, 2020

Fighting Korea

I somehow just stumbled across a years-old interview with the actor John Cho, who, like me, is of Korean ethnic background. The…

Gene Yoon in ginsudo

Jun 24, 2020

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the logic of “silence is compliance”

“Silence is compliance” is a phrase that many people toss off without thinking through how it…

police technology

In the future, the police as we know it today will not exist.

Gene Yoon in ginsudo

Apr 11, 2020

the tragic triangle of the three cultures

In 1959, C.P. Snow delivered a lecture called The Two Cultures, about a vexing divide…

Gene Yoon in ginsudo

Mar 27, 2020

Here is why the days are so long.

Many people have remarked that this month is the longest in memory, so much so that as you lie awake…

Gene Yoon in ginsudo

Mar 26, 2020

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Why The Next Financial Crash Will Be The Last

or, an Outline of Everything I’ve Read on Twitter in 2020 so far

Gene Yoon in ginsudo

Jan 28, 2020

the last turtle

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.

Gene Yoon in ginsudo

Jan 22, 2020

message in a bottle

When I first started getting glum about the future, I thought that maybe I was just getting old and grumpy. But now I’ve…

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