Andrei Stoica

2. Most of the newcomers to the realization that govt is paralyzed (Ezra Klein, Dunkelman etc) think that the red tape jungle can be pruned, or organized with better feedback loops (Pahlka). This is falling into Gore's pit. There's a fatal defect: the operating system is designed around legal compliance--instead of human authority to make tradeoff... See more

What does this nation become on the road to progress. We stand at the edge of technical innovation and distributed scale our forefathers couldn’t even fathom. But if we care nothing for the soul of each citizen, as we continue to shift the hands of power as this republic was designed to do — it is far too easy to not address the infected molar, and... See more

It’s like the lack of communal tables in restaurants.2 They’re good not so much because you can go and sit with other people, but so that your solitariness is better situated within a public space. Alone, but not isolated. It’s the difference between a club where everyone is clumped into their friend groups and one where everyone is facing the DJ.... See more

La Poétique de l’Espace (1958) was first published in English in 1964, two years after Bachelard’s death, then in paperback in 1969, and reissued in 1994. An allusive little book, its author was a highly-respected philosopher who late in his career had turned from science to poetry. Nothing about his intellectual journey had been orthodox,... See more

What’s coming into focus more gradually is how bad things are getting for those of us in the audience, too . Something that’s long bothered me and Erin about the hegemony of streaming is that if you do away altogether with physical media, you put yourself at the mercy of corporate accountants (who might decide there’s insufficient R.O.I. when it... See more