Complex reasons for this kind of disaster can be elaborated at length by experts on banking and high finance who cannot see the forest for the trees, But it was just as if someone had come to work on building a house and, on the morning of the Depression, the…

Until last year, I worked within the corporate part of the tech industry. My specialty was solving large complex problems through analysis, learning, strategic action and hard work. Since leaving, I’ve mostly been focused on two things: How to turn skilled work into money without committing the majority of my…

That would be literally impossible — Our senses are limited. Our memory is lossy. Our understandings are flawed. Our biases are heavily slanted in favor of ourselves, in a world with billions of individuals. Our bodies exist in shared physical space. Our minds exist in places where taking the last slice of pizza could be unforgivable. Over a lifetime, people learn how the “world works” based upon their own personal experiences.

I first joined the tech industry in a different era. I graduated high school in 1995. I worked retail until 1997, when I started my first job as a member of an outsourced helpdesk. …

Computers have been a major part of my life since I started calling dial-up bulletin board systems (BBS) in the late 1980s, when I was far too young. By the early 1990s I was running one instead. …

I first joined the tech industry in 1997. I had gone from high school graduate to retail associate to remote help desk worker for a major investment banking firm. After a childhood obsession with computers, the job came easy to me. Given the timing within the industry, two years later…

As I look around our country today, I see a lot of problems, and I see a lot of narratives about those problems. Some of those narratives are true. They’re often missing a larger context that paints a very different picture though. SmolTech is my answer to the problems I…

Over the past few years, I’ve been engaged in a propaganda war. That hasn’t been my narrative. I was trying to engage honestly with my fellow Americans. Over time I realized that honest engage wasn’t the *only* thing going on around me.

They’re an illusion, created from light refracting through raindrops. Each person sees a slightly different rainbow based on their own angle to the source of light. There is no backside of the rainbow, because they do not exist. Similarly, any method you want to use for grouping humans is still a collection of unique individual experiences. Each is a human. Each is a member of the Great Ape family, with shared instinctual behaviors, shaped by a lifetime of learned narratives that encompass a tiny percentage of a vast unknowable reality.