We live in a time where it is not only possible—but increasingly profitable—to criminalize poverty. And we need to ask, not as a theoretical exercise, but as a matter of urgency: Who benefits when basic survival becomes a crime? Step One: Build the Incentives Let’s start with the American prison system. It’s no secret that…

How AT Protocol and intentional community building can transform superficial connections into genuine relationships The Follower Trap You know the feeling. You’re scrolling through your Bluesky timeline, seeing posts from your 847 followers, and you realize something unsettling: you wouldn’t actually want to have dinner with most of these people. This isn’t meant to be…

Why losing Google Drive would eclipse the destruction of the ancient Library of Alexandria In the year 391 CE, a Christian mob led by Bishop Theophilus stormed the Serapeum in Alexandria, Egypt. As flames consumed the daughter library of the legendary Great Library of Alexandria, centuries of accumulated knowledge turned to ash. History remembers this…

Timothy Leary, Trinity, and the Programmable Mind At some point in the late-stage collapse of the American education system, while we were all pretending that debt, dropout rates, and diminishing returns were simply problems of policy or funding, Timothy Leary was already somewhere else entirely. He wasn’t trying to reform the classroom. He was trying…

Street tacos are the best. Sure, tacos and a liquada sitting down in a restaurant can be nice, but standing on the corner in the sun downing a couple fresh street tacos with a friend can’t be beat.