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 product manager for Honeycomb.
Recent posts
Watch the World Burn
This week there are two deaths in the news that stand out against the thousands of deaths that are in the news every week; Nex Benedict's and Aaron Bushnell's.
The Gravity of Capitalism
A theory about how to discuss what systems make easy, and an application of the theory to capitalism, to see if it helps us better imagine futures beyond capitalism.
Respecting Anxiety
I feel like the topic of anxiety often (ironically?) generates a good bit of anxiety itself. It's a mental health topic. High anxiety is the same as high stress—if it continues unaddressed for a long time, it's very bad for your health. Anxiety is thus widely recognized as a problem to resolved. But only pursuing self-care avoids asking the question I've come to believe is most important for me: what is this anxiety telling me?
Missing the Monster
Two centuries ago, Mary Shelley published the most incredible indictment of the tech world mindset when she released her classic novel _Frankenstein_.
Recently Read
The Disordered Cosmos
Copyright 2022, Bold Type Books
Race, Indigenous Issues, Cultural Analysis
Having and Being Had
Copyright 2021, Riverhead Books
Cultural Analysis
The Light Eaters
Copyright 2024, Harper
Climate Change, Cultural Analysis
The Outskirter's Secret
Copyright 1992, Del Rey
Fiction
The Control of Nature
Copyright 1989, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Climate Change, Cultural Analysis
Try Anarchism for Life
Copyright 2022, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
Climate Change, Cultural Analysis
Number One is Walking
Copyright 2022, Celadon Books
Cultural Analysis
The Book of (More) Delights
Copyright 2023, Algonquin Books
Cultural Analysis
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