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
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.
Practice Refusing
When you practice refusal, you start conjuring up space for different futures. It's a magic trick.
Recently Read
Re:Imagining Change
Copyright 2017, PM Press
Cultural Analysis
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Copyright 2018, Mariner Books
Cultural Analysis
The Ordinal Society
Copyright 2024, Harvard University Press
Tech Industry, Cultural Analysis
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Copyright 2018, Harper Voyager
Fiction
(2nd time reading)
The Galaxy and the Ground Within
Copyright 2021, Harper Voyager
Fiction
(2nd time reading)
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
Copyright 2016, Harper Voyager
Fiction
(2nd time reading)
Harrow the Ninth
Copyright 2021, Tor Books
Fiction
(3rd time reading)
Gideon the Ninth
Copyright 2020, Tor Books
Fiction
(3rd time reading)
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