Facial recognition can predict political orientation

Will technology know us better than we know ourselves?

The other coup

The latest must-read article by Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

NationBuilder Year in Review 2020

Celebrating incredible leaders around the world doing remarkable work using NationBuilder.

Four Corners included on Relapse Records 30-year anniversary sampler

December 23 Music

The seduction of conspiracy theories

"Suffering the distress of an illusion rather than the true distress of my life."

My favorite albums of 2020

A to-the-point list of some of my favorite released this year, in no particular order.

December 10 Music

The Eternal Resonance

2020 has been an awful year in many, many ways. One bright spot has been the release of some truly stellar albums—some expected and anticipated, others out of the blue (at least to me).

November 12 Music

Video calls in the uncanny valley

nVidia has figured out a clever way to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth, and it's pretty wild.

Thinking of Jim

Remembering my friend Jim Gilliam on what would be his 43rd birthday.

Blade Runner 2020, San Francisco edition

Futuristic science fiction dystopia meets reality.

Members of the Green Phlox

by Martin Rubashov

January 22 Listening

Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

January 06 Reading