Reading Time: 7 minutes I stayed in New York City for the month of October (give or take a week). I have a few reflections. What I talk about when I talk about running in New York To stay in shape during my visit, I ran. At first, I ran because it was the only affordable thing in the […]
Reading Time: 13 minutes Table of Contents Why Big Tech isn’t Big Steel Aggregators: the Tech Non-opolies Why don’t we just break them up? How to Regulate Big Tech: Digital Public Goods Why wouldn’t this work? Today’s big tech companies have too much power — too much power over our economy, our society, and our democracy. They’ve bulldozed competition, […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes The saying goes: “the Inuit people have over 50 words for snow.” English speakers think of snow as a single thing. But since Inuit speakers have over 50 words for it, they are able to better conceptualize the many types of snow. When you really think about snow, it’s obvious there are many types: powdery, […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s cheap to be rich. Most people understand that being rich comes with benefits for convenience and health. But one benefit is often missed: when you’re rich, many things are actually cheaper. I’m going to catalogue how. To start, for clarity on “rich”, I’ll use B.C’s definition of an Accredited Investor: – Individuals who have […]
Reading Time: 11 minutes I’ve been thinking a lot about class. ‘Class’ is a way to categorize people in a society. Ironically, the idea of class itself isn’t really well-categorized. Classes are amorphous; they can be working, ruling, blue-collar, white-collar, aristocratic, peasant, social, upper, economic, and so on. A system of ordering a society in which people are divided […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Last week, Lily and I went to the Vancouver Art Gallery. One of the main exhibitions was “Where do we go from here?“, a meditation on the role of art galleries in shaping our culture. More specifically, it was their response to the events of 2020, especially the Black Lives Matter movement: “This exhibition both […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Basically, I came back to Vancouver because Lily got some bad news. She’s been diagnosed with breast cancer. Oh my god, so sorry to hear that. Yeah, and it’s a fairly aggressive form of it, so it’s pretty rough. Good news though is she seems to responding pretty well to the chemo. It’s a type […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes I finished my trip with 4 nights in Lisbon. It was the middle of the week so my days resembled something like a regular routine. Each day, I’d meet up with my friend Carlin, and together we’d settle into what I think is one of Europe’s most remote-friendly cities. In the day, we’d work and […]
Reading Time: 8 minutes After Madrid, I headed to Seville for a week of solo travel and remote work. On the way, I picked up Felt Time by Marc Wittmann. Nothing elevates your perception of time like a brand-new environment, so it felt like a perfect exploration. On top of that, Seville is a uniquely ambient city. I “felt […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes I had the misfortune of travelling from Barcelona to Madrid. I say misfortune because, like many who make that journey, I found Madrid utterly uninspired compared to Barcelona. Whereas Barcelona has a lyrical, turbulent quality, Madrid feels like straight lines and regular workdays. Barcelona feels like a small city that grew large through the attractiveness […]