Digging For Fire: Introduction
This is the first draft of my introduction to my upcoming book, which is currently (tentatively) entitled Digging For Fire: Seeking Innovation In East Africa. This may not make it to the…
An Unfortunately Open Email To Any NSA Employee Who Might Be Reading It
This is an email I just sent to myself, in case anyone is reading my accounts. Maybe you're not reading this. Maybe you're just collating it, my words encoded on…
Finding Innovation In Africa — support my IndieGoGo campaign!
My campaign is live! Wonderfully, we raised over $2500 in the first day -- a quarter of the way there! There's still a ways to go, though, and I'd love…
Africa Book – Crowdfunding
So I'm finally in a position where I can make the trip to Africa I've been wanting to make for most of my life, to write a book about technology…
Righteous Kill
Like most Americans, I've been thinking a lot about guns these past few months, since Aurora and Sandy Hook. And like most Americans, I've come to a series of conclusions…
Behavioral, autonomic, mechanical compared to Marr’s tri-level hypothesis
As I mentioned in my last post, my model for cybernetic systems bears a lot of resemblance to David Marr's tri-level hypothesis, which he defines as computational, algorithmic and implementational. I'll quote from…
Behavioral, autonomic, mechanical: a model for building badass robots
[Update: since I started writing this, a Twitter friend helpfully pointed me at Marr's levels of analysis, which upon quick study appears to be pretty much identical to this idea,…
Dick move.
Sometime early Monday morning, my old friend and collaborator Tommy Marth committed suicide. What a prick. And Tommy was a prick, make no mistake. It was his chief public characteristic. He…
A Pitchfork Band Review: Crystal Wolf Loves Foxes Too
As anybody who's ever heard a musical note knows, tiny Muenster, Texas (pop. 1566) has become the new indie hotbed. Muenster bands such as Punky Brewster Soundsystem and Lars And…
A Musical Manifesto (Of Sorts)
I'm in the very early stages of recording a second LP under my pseudonym, Red State Soundsystem. (I'm also recording an acoustic EP of some of the tracks from my…