Blog Archive

Counting

We count by steps, cigarettes, fleeting glances, and sips of a drink late in the evening. We measure distance and estimate the future by numbers. As we count, we try to grasp our existence and contextualize ourselves within the world we inhabit.

Infrastructure

I'm obsessed with infrastructure. It's all those things that go unnoticed until something breaks, suddenly revealing their crucial existence. This includes everything from electrical grids and generators to water systems and data centers. For the past ten years, I've also worked in computer infrastructure, so I've witnessed firsthand the chain of events that unfolds when something fails.

Crafting Puzzles

I started typing with the familiar sounds of my eight-year-old son echoing from the next room. He was in full-blown playful mode, his mom not so gently trying to get him to brush his teeth.

Through the window

I used to view my apartment as a boundary, a place that defines the inside—a small, or not-so-small, internal space that separates me from the outside world. It was the place I loved to hate during the COVID period, yet also a space we reshaped in many ways to support a different way of living.

Are we responsible for our choices?

On Project Syndicate, Peter Singer discusses choice and responsibility, exploring the extent to which we can be held accountable for our choices and how truly ours those choices are. It's a great read.

Cybernetics

Cybernetics could also be seen as an evolutionary theory for machines. There is no need for machines to represent the world in order to achieve an output or result; instead, the focus is on the adaptive nature of machines and systems. One has to set the rules and relationships between systems, and according to those rules, systems evolve in their own way, which of course, relates back to the initial point.

Knowledge knitting

Eric Hobsbawm's style of writing history, using self-contained essays that can stand alone outside the context of their book, perfectly showcases how art, music, technology, economy, traditions, and seemingly unrelated changes shape the evolution of societies.

Updated tooling

One of the most impressive things about human-machine studies and literature is how they reveal, in many profound ways, the inner workings of brain functions and what we like to call the thinking process.