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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  • Watch the World Burn

    This week there are two deaths in the news that stand out against the thousands of deaths that are in the news every week; Nex Benedict's and Aaron Bushnell's.

  • The Gravity of Capitalism

    A theory about how to discuss what systems make easy, and an application of the theory to capitalism, to see if it helps us better imagine futures beyond capitalism.

  • Respecting Anxiety

    I feel like the topic of anxiety often (ironically?) generates a good bit of anxiety itself. It's a mental health topic. High anxiety is the same as high stress—if it continues unaddressed for a long time, it's very bad for your health. Anxiety is thus widely recognized as a problem to resolved. But only pursuing self-care avoids asking the question I've come to believe is most important for me: what is this anxiety telling me?

  • Missing the Monster

    Two centuries ago, Mary Shelley published the most incredible indictment of the tech world mindset when she released her classic novel _Frankenstein_.

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