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.

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  • Every Day Sucks More

    Everything sucks. Everyone with power wants to keep the power but is terrified to wield it, and so we wake up every morning with new horrors to process, new fears to add to the list, new furies to fuel our helpless rage.

  • 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).

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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.

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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.