Cybernetics: A Fatal Flaw

...d women forced to wear skirts and assigned conservative gender-based work: cooking, child care, and washing. A founding member who called himself Lord Byron presided over the group and reserved the right to have sex with any woman in the commune . . . “There was constantly a background of fear in the house–like a virus running in the background. Like spyware. You know it’s there, but you don’t know how to get rid of it.” Levine contends that this...

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Root Simple Podcast on Spotify

...s say, next week. Thank you to John Zapf (a guest on episode 54) for suggesting listing the podcast on Spotify. No doubt, I will receive a call from John accusing me of cooking up this blog post as an excuse to note the existence of Jacques Derrida hauntological playlists. Guilty....

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Digital Götterdämmerung

...icular skill. But your hobby could also be something like sewing, welding, cooking, gardening, volunteering or learning a musical instrument. Reclaim conversation by shutting off the phone. Join something and be a part of a face to face group. Take up a sport. Newport contends that at the end of the month long digital fast you’ll find that services you looked at compulsively will lose their charm. This has already happened to me with Instagram. I...

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On the 100th Birthday of Our House: The Past and Future of Housing in the U.S.

...bout sharing an apartment with relatives. Or getting your not-in-my-backyard neighbors to agree to a bus-only lane on an already congested boulevard. Or democratizing the workplace to ask for fewer hours for more pay to allow more time for cooking and child care. Or revisiting the bungalow court, granny flat or, gasp, looking to multi-generational communal living. These are tough ideas to contemplate from the luxury of our quiet and comfortable bu...

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Cook With Internet Shaquille

...nom de guerre, Internet Shaquille. He posts pithy, frugal and to the point cooking videos covering everything from hummus to coffee. https://youtu.be/MWveIltRyYc I’m partial to his take downs of expensive pre-made meals such as smoothy purveyor Daily Harvest, https://youtu.be/2GQmlZHNA28 and Scam Like Me, Get Blue Apron for Free. https://youtu.be/osv72OeCpR0 He’s also got some solid advice on how to make a restaurant quality burrito at home. So le...

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