My Goals for NYU’s ITP Program
I’m really excited to be starting my Master’s in Professional Studies program at New York University for the Interactive Telecommunications Program in August. In a way, it’s a true culmination of all...
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My good friend is a brilliant writer, up there with Chuck Palahniuk and Chuck Klosterman in terms of modern men’s writing. He’s created several blogs but he abandons them pretty quickly after some...
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I think perhaps one of my biggest fears is that all of what I’ve done — the lead-ups and building of characters and plot and tone, as in a story — will have a poorly-written, fizzled-out ending. Also:...
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WET PAINT/VET PAIN
Saw WET PAINT signs on the walls of my apartment building. Have been thinking of the winding down of the Iraq “War” and the lifelong scars that our invisible veterans will carry as a result of the...
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Real Relationships Keeping up with friends for me has become a matter of remembering which method of communication they prefer. Having moved from place to place and from tribe to tribe, I know quite a...
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Reflection
[N.B.: I wrote this in early April. Kept it close for a while but it'll help to get it off my chest. Ugh.] So there I was last night, running along the East River at half past midnight, a long run...
View ArticleList of Books I Read in 2012
Here’s the list of books that I read in 2012. Since I’m in my second year of grad school and am learning a lot of technical stuff, that would explain some of the more manual-type books. It also...
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Opening Up Galapag.us for Alpha
My thesis project for NYU-ITP has been Galapag.us, a tribe and ecosystem for promoting the idea that we should be radically open and transparent with our data so that we can form and share metrics to...
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A Liminal Event
At 36 years of age, as of March 7th, I have just become gloriously married. You know those times at school when the teacher or a counselor would have you write down your 1-year, 5-year, and 10-year...
View ArticleA List of Books I Read in 2017
2017 Goal: 15 books 2017 Outcome: 21 books In 2017, I spent my first full year as a father, and I was busy at work helping to build a lot of infrastructure. (10) Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of...
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