Current Writing Projects
Letters To The Editor
Published Pieces
the revolution lives is a
{good, decent, lackluster} name for a deconstructed utopian novel
A long simmering work that's exactly what the title makes it out to be! More or less on hold due to graduate school.
A NYT letter to the editor I wrote about a NYT guest essay by one David Epstein. In an ironic twist of fate, two years later, I read the book ("Range" by David Epstein) that the guest essay is taken from, and loved it..
An 2019 Towards Data Science essay about "spreading out" period of congestion, or rush hours, as it concerns both the weekend rush as well as electric loads. Includes my proposal and data based analysis of half-hour wide timezones.
A letter to the editor in Harper's Magazine, about Greg Jackon's "Vicious Cycles," a wonderful piece about the news.
A 2019 essay in the Earth Island Journal, which if memory serves correctly is the first piece I got paid for.
In Space, No One Complains About The Documentation
A techno-futurist look at potential technologies through the lens of The Expanse. Originally published at The Carbon Culture Review, which is now, alas, defunct.
Consciousness is an inevitable state of matter
A reader-friendly yet serious attempt at a solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness, after Rich Cohen. Basically, if there is some advantage that consciousness confers, then any biological ecosystem of living things will evolve to have creatures that have conscious experience. Originally published at The Oxford Philosopher, which is also sadly defunct.
A younger version of me blowing off some steam...