hey I'm winston. i work as a product manager for Vox Media. i read a lot for fun and to help me better understand and interrogate our world. this web-blog is where i chronicle some of my learning. I also write a book recommendation newsletter.
Recently read
Automation and the Future of Work
Copyright 2020, Verso
Tech Industry, Cultural Analysis
Network Effect
Copyright 2020, Tordotcom
Fiction
Migrations
Copyright 2020, Flatiron Books
Climate Change, Fiction
Transcendent Kingdom
Copyright 2020, Knopf
Fiction
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Copyright 2018, Harper Voyager
Fiction
Gathering Moss
Copyright 2003, Oregon State University
Climate Change, Indigenous Issues
A Closed and Common Orbit
Copyright 2017, Harper Voyager
Fiction
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Copyright 2016, Harper Voyager
Fiction
Rosewater
Copyright 2018, Orbit
Fiction
Artificial Condition
Copyright 2018, Tor
Fiction
All Systems Red
Copyright 2017, Tor
Fiction
The Wild Girls
Copyright 2011, PM Press
Fiction, Cultural Analysis
Recent writings
Seeing Like a Tech Company
Seeing Like a State examines the hubris of High Modernist ideology in state schemes, but I see in it the ongoing work of the tech industry.
Message to Chattanooga City Council
Defund the police
Bernie is not an Organizer
I’ve struggled to make sense of the argument that Bernie will be the Organizer in Chief because I can’t find any evidence that he’s doing the work of organizing.
A Different Journalism
Lewis Raven Wallace argues in The View from Somewhere that for journalists, "standing to the side of history is impossible when we are the ones writing it."
You Were Cool
Marking the passage of time by thinking about John Darnielle lyrics (among other things).
Non-fiction reading in 2019
In 2019 I read 73 books; the most I've read in a single year possibly in my entire life.
Noted and Noteworthy
I read a lot of articles, papers, and other things that don't make it on to my reading page. This is where I can share them.