“Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules.” ~ James Gleick :::

"Good design makes a product understandable." ~ Dieter Rams :::

Oslo, Norway October 2017

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." ~ Antonio Gramsci :::

Martin House Buffalo, New York March 2018

“From day one, TSMC wasn’t really a private business: it was a project of the Taiwanese state.” ~ Chris Miller via Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology :::

"There is always a philosophy for lack of courage." ~ Albert Camus

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born - in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” ~ Antonio Gramsci :::

"Society treats physical and intellectual training as though they obey different laws—as though the mind, unlike the body, might get strong without being made to struggle." ~ Dan Rockmore newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

Halifax, Nova Scotia July 2025

“The greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.” ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky :::

Bergen, Norway October 2017

"The great challenge of teaching is not to transmit information—machines do that cheaply now—but to engineer those moments of genuine understanding reliably enough that students come to crave them." ~ Dan Rockmore newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

Nanto, Alberta July 2016

"War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence." ~ Cormac McCarthy :::

Oslo, Norway October 2017

“It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.” ~ Umberto Eco :::

South Mississauga March 2026

"We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules." ~ Oscar Niemeyer :::

Tokyo, Japan December 2025