Author Archives: alex

No Time, No Space

By alex | Published: 5/19/2020
I am trying to write about stuff, with some help from friends in the onlines. I was just going to keep this private, but then I remembered “Hey, I have a blog!” No Time I keep coming back to the Tim Ferris book, the Four Hour Workweek, and the idea that if you didn’t have […]
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How to Succeed in Grad School

By alex | Published: 8/9/2016
In about 10 minutes I am headed to orient our small group of incoming MA in Social Technologies grad students. I figure this is a chance to get down verbally with the young folk and give them some advice for succeeding in grad school. 1. Have a plan (A and B) It’s true, many people […]
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Dreaming of Fake Tokyo

By alex | Published: 1/6/2016
Some people remember their dreams and they seem to be somehow cohesive narratives. This happens only extremely rarely for me. Instead, I have recurring half-remembered people, buildings, events and especially places. Many of these dreamed places map strangely to real places. There is dream version of Tokyo, an amalgam of an imagined Tokyo and the […]
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My Christmas (To Do) List

By alex | Published: 11/17/2015
Whenever I’m feeling overwhelmed by my “to do” list I get the impulse to make it public, because by doing so, I somehow bracket it and make it feel less overwhelming. This is my “work” to-dos. I have family coming for the holidays, there’s a lot that needs to happen around the house (we are […]
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