Growth-hacking, glorified funding, and groupthink create a blind spot for online violence — The problem with technology platforms is rooted in start-up culture. Agile. Lean. Market size. Time-to-market. User take-up. Engagement rate. These are terms that help start-ups compete across “how much” and “by when.” We need a performance metric that tracks “how long before it breaks” The documentary “The Social Dilemma” displays how engagement-driven technology facilitates the development of amoral machine learning, echo chambers…

Using situations instead of hierarchy — When I think about people close to me, I encounter a thick fog, oblivious to anything on the other side. I don’t know what it means to be “close” anymore. If you ask me who I speak to the most, I can think of the top two people. If you…

A poem — How can I put this? Today, I can’t seem to get a grasp on how things. Are. How things are. How do I feel? To answer that question, I have to ask how my life feels. How everything feels. To connect dots that don’t want to be connected. It seems…

A poem — Clarity folds into an insular oasis beyond my reach. It sits tranquil while I venture with effort. I make the steps, I clear the path and just when I think I’m getting close, it evades. The longing for something that makes sense is making my arms feel tender and sore, grasping for…

A poem — Lasting impact on a wounded heart: a scar A scar is one drop of oxygen in the bucket of time, the tears of the gods nursing aging flesh, but in their own Time: what is time if not a gift wrapped into the present taking the hollow holes of the past, filling them with…