I write software for a living, but mostly wish I was running in the woods. My last name rhymes with “car”.
San Rafael, CA
Joined March 2007
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New blog post: "The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise" about different ways people spend their time, and the visibility of experts in our field.
brooker.co.za/blog/2023/04/2…
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R.I.P. Wayne Shorter, who leaves us at age 89—one of the most extraordinary musicians of my lifetime. Shorter had a transformative impact on improvisation and composition, but also in the poised and caring way he led his life. Our culture is a lesser place without him. nytimes.com/2023/03/02/arts/…
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What can we learn from the surprising turnaround at Barnes & Noble? (my latest)
This company almost died, but now it's growing again, and will open 30 new stores in 2023.
Other industries—music, newspapers, movies, etc.—should learn from their example. tedgioia.substack.com/p/what…
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It’s you versus you: an ode to pull-ups, by James Parker: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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Just took this piece, posted last week, out from behind the @NonzeroNews paywall. It’s about the role that fear plays on both sides of the red-blue divide—and how these two sets of fears can feed off each other to the detriment of democracy. nonzero.substack.com/p/post-…
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Don Quixote tells us how the Star Wars franchise ends (my latest). tedgioia.substack.com/p/don-…
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Are you the same person you've always been? Or have you changed dramatically through life?
As I learned while writing this piece for @NewYorker, people have strong, divergent views about this question!
newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…
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"the way something appears or makes you feel no longer matters so much, and images have been so hollowed out by escalating repetition, so debased, that an utterly tasteless image can become extremely valuable in ways that can hardly be comprehended" spikeartmagazine.com/?q=arti…
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14 Warning Signs That You Are Living in a Society Without a Counterculture (my latest article). tedgioia.substack.com/p/14-w…
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Vaclav Smil's "How the World Really Works" offers hope and despair for techno-optimists. Maintaining and expanding modernity will require huge flows of materials for the foreseeable future. reason.com/2022/05/25/civili… via @reason
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My long read about Florida's national tragedy re the environment and our unique landscape is now live over at @curaffairs. "We live simultaneously with a vision of the future that may be purgatory, heaven, or hell."
currentaffairs.org/2022/05/t…
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis broke the news on Twitter, saying that Vangelis was "the protagonist of electronic sound" ra.co/news/77294?preview
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Dieter Rams turns 90 this week... watch "Rams" free! It's a tradition that on Dieter's birthday we show the documentary about him free worldwide. Since this is a big birthday, we're streaming it free all week! Watch it free now through Sunday, May 22.
ohyouprettythings.com/rams
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Announcing my next film: ENO. The definitive career-spanning, multi-platform documentary about visionary musician and artist @BrianEno. It's like an art film about creativity, with the output of Brian’s 50-year career as its raw material. Coming in 2023.
hustwit.com/eno
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“How tragic, I thought, to reduce life to a procession of microtransactions or contracts. How naive to believe that some agreed-upon set of values could be formalized into code, or that the problems of politics could be made irrelevant by computation.” nplusonemag.com/issue-42/the…
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Just learned mathematician and architect Christopher Alexander passed away last night. His theory and built work will remain an inspiration.
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This week on the blog, a break in our normally scheduled content for a short post to try to explain some of the complexities of what is happening in Ukraine, particularly for those 'just tuning in' as it were.
acoup.blog/2022/02/25/miscel…
