I write things – different things in different languages – and I help people in business with marketing and communication.
Getting past the sex life of demons, the motivations of chickens, and the challenges of disassembling IKEA furniture in the dark, to get to the one question that answers everything.
There’s a proud tradition in literature to write stories from the perspective of despicable protagonists and unreliable narrators. Do we know God is not one of them?
The U.S. election system is broken, lifting privileged attention hogs with narcissistic traits up the ladder. Let’s redesign our entire system for choosing our representatives and leaders, from the ground up.
It’s about time someone answered all the difficult questions about the universe once and for all, isn’t it? And since no one else seems to be taking the task seriously, I guess it’s up to me…
Some words of advice to young designers on what their clients want to see.
When we’re vilifying one side or the other for the senseless killing in the Middle East, chances are we’ve got the sides wrong.
The question in the title is sincere, and if you are a thoughtful, believing Christian, I hope you will answer it in the comments. But to get better answers, I want to give some context for the question, and hopefully challenge you a bit in the process.
… and it makes us say and do silly things – like claim that the universe is 14 billion years old or compare ourselves to people born at approximately the same time as us. If we can change how we see time, we can see how silly that is, and maybe add some more time to our lives in the process.
We’re coming up on that time of year, again, when we can’t agree on whether we should be celebrating Columbus or not. Much of the controversy has been debated to death, but I don’t think we’ve quite internalized, as a culture, quite what a remarkably reckless and ill-informed idea it…
Book Review: End Times by Peter Turchin. An ambitious, but not exactly optimistic, take on history, current events, and our near future. Read it on Medium
At most busy airports I’ve been to, traffic outside of Arrivals is pure chaos. That seems like an entirely avoidable failure of planning and architecture, and a fixable problem. I’ve travelled far less than many people, but have visited enough large, busy airports to notice a pattern. A traveler’s first…
I’ve been thinking a lot about holidays lately, and about how to make them enjoyable and sticky — and now how to apply that to Election Day. Read it on Medium →
The brilliant physicist Enrico Fermi famously wondered: With billions of Earth-like planets orbiting billions of Sun-like stars for billions of years, the galaxy should be teeming with life. So …where is everyone? Read it on Medium →
You’re starting a business, you have big ambitions, and you need to quickly make your brand known and loved out in the world, to start bringing in the customers. You should probably pick up a book or two on the topic, but to kick things off, here’s my version of Marketing & Branding 101.
