hey i'm winston. 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 work as a technical product manager.
Recent posts
Political Imagination
It's my perspective that the period after Trump, whenever it begins, will be a period when big change is not only possible but _necessary_; because the country will be dealing with all the chaos and destruction that Trump leaves behind.
Notes From the Twin Cities
I'm struggling to capture what it feels like in Minnesota, but here is a small attempt.
Poem: time to kill god again
i used to believe it was required of me / to look every horror in its face
I Am Once Again Sitting by a River
a poem
Recently Read

Orbital
Copyright 2024, Grove Press
Fiction

Original Sins
Copyright 2025, One World
Race, Indigenous Issues, Cultural Analysis

The Eyre Affair
Copyright 2003, Penguin Books
Fiction

Neuromancer
Copyright 1984, Ace
Fiction

Binti
Copyright 2015, Tordotcom
Fiction

The Shamshine Blind
Copyright 2023, Atria Books
Fiction

Audition for the Fox
Copyright 2025, Tachyon Publications
Fiction

The Mushroom at the End of the World
Copyright 2021, Princeton University Press
Climate Change, Cultural Analysis
(2nd time reading)
Links of Note
Articles, papers, and other things that don't make it on to my reading page.
The World is Toxic. Welcome to the Metabolic Era
The Stones Shall Cry out: Consciousness, Rocks, and Indians
On Nonscalability: The Living World is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
Feminists write the Anthropocene: three tales of possibility in Late Capitalism
Decolonization is not a Metaphor
Disability, Bias, and AI