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
Shopping My Shelves
What if I survey my bookshelves and build a reading list based on what I have?
Notes on 2022, a Benediction for 2023
This year, 2022, I grew tired of the metaphors and cliches available for me to make sense of life. Everything I would reach for to describe things was the language of war, or domination, or colonialism, or capitalism, and usually so pat as to preclude all possibilities of other ways of thinking or framing.
Design without Designers
A review of "User Friendly", a book about the history of user-friendly design that is too afraid of challenging existing myths to actually pursue the interesting questions it raises.
Starting at the Root
Bookworm Issue 02, 2022
Recently Read
Leech
Copyright 2022, Tordotcom
Fiction
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Copyright 2022, W.W. Norton & Co
Cultural Analysis
Living a Feminist Life
Copyright 2017, Duke University Press
Disability Theory, Cultural Analysis
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Copyright 2022, Drawn & Quarterly
Climate Change, Cultural Analysis
Devil House
Copyright 2022, MCD
Fiction
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Copyright 2022, Tor Books
Fiction
Either/Or
Copyright 2022, Penguin Press
Fiction
Mouth to Mouth
Copyright 2022, Avid Reader Press
Fiction
Links of Note
Articles, papers, and other things that don't make it on to my reading page.
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
Canada as a Conserver Society (PDF)
Making Access Critical: Disability, Race, and Gender in Environmental Design