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
the god of flowers
I've been writing some poetry lately, and while most of I'm writing for me, I felt like sharing this one.
Live Music
A smol post about how much I love live music, even if I don't get to enjoy it much these days.
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.
Recently Read
Neurotribes
Copyright 2015, Avery Publishing Group
Cultural Analysis
The Truth About Stories
Copyright 2003, University of Minnesota Press
Indigenous Issues, Cultural Analysis
A Half-Built Garden
Copyright 2023, Tor Books
Fiction
The Rediscovery of America
Copyright 2023, Yale University Press
Indigenous Issues, Cultural Analysis
Restaurant at the End of the Galaxy
Copyright 1980, Pan Books
Fiction
Life, the Universe, and Everything
Copyright 1982, Pan Books
Fiction
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Copyright 1979, Pan Books
Fiction
The Disordered Cosmos
Copyright 2022, Bold Type Books
Race, Indigenous Issues, Cultural Analysis
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