The User is the Content

How I fixed my health problems without medicine

I’ll begin with a question: Is it bordering on narcissism to share one’s health data online? My own answer is I’m not certain. Why I’m uncertain is because what I intend to share here may be helpful to someone else, in terms of their own health…

The undertow of the banal.

Living in a culture of simulation. In two parts.

Leon Wieseltier comes out swinging

Technological progress versus the Humanities.

It is difficult to begin reading Leon Wieseltier’s New York Times essay, Among The Disrupted, without worrying that it will be an angry screed about technological…

Every New Year we forget the past

Reflections on a year, mortality, and the death of my father

We live in a universe of our own making. Accept or deny

Writing on an island

I’m on an island in the Pacific Ocean. It has often been said that by any…

How Portland, Oregon could benefit from Uber

Why does a progressive city turn a blind eye to the economic benefits of transportation change?

The bass players who led me to create my own bass playing style

Bootsy Collins, Jaco Pastorius, George Porter Jr. and Boris Gardiner*

I picked up my first bass guitar at the age of fourteen. My mother had bought…