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.

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  • A Story I'm Telling Myself

    We are, in this moment, in a battle between the existence of many complex, richly diverse, thriving futures, and the existence of a simple, complicated, fragile future. The people who have siezed power in the US are actively building the latter vision; but the vast majority of people want the former. I will explain my thinking.

  • What if We Plant Some Seeds

    In the past few years I've been reading a great number of authors who are thinking about how we make better worlds. From them I've gathered a collection of ideas that have congealed into something that feels like a workable strategy for fighting the Horrors and resisting burnout. A strategy that does not require anyone to suddenly find superhero strength and endurance, but instead assumes that we already have everything we need, in our current state of being.

  • 40 Things That Helped Me Become the Current Version of Myself

    Today I turn 40, so here are 40 things that have had a large impact on my life!

  • What if god doesn't control capitalism

    A thinking-in-public post theorizing one way that a core assumption of Christianity might have shaped the core beliefs of capitalism.

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