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May 9, 2018 · Engineering

Euripides Path of Steady Success

May 9th, 2018. High noon. East Palo Alto shoreline. Sixty-four degrees and sunny, the kind of day that makes you forget, for a moment, that everything ends badly. Especially here, where the ground itself is a monument to bad decisions. We’re standing on a Superfund site. Toxic landscape. The kind of place where American ambition […]

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May 8, 2018 · FalseArt

John Cage Ten Rules for Students and Teachers

RULE ONE: Find a place you trust, and then, try trusting it for awhile. RULE TWO: General duties of a student — pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students. RULE THREE: General duties of a teacher — pull everything out of your students. RULE FOUR: Consider everything an experiment. […]

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April 3, 2018 · Individualism

Zakir Hussain: You’re always a student

You don’t understand what it means to be in that room until you’re in that room. Not watching, that’s what tourists do, what the assholes with the expensive seats do. I mean in it, close enough to see the sweat, the micro-adjustments of his fingers, the way his whole body becomes an argument with silence. […]

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March 31, 2018 · FalseArt

Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the […]

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March 25, 2018 · Engineering

Antonio’s Nut House, California Avenue: A Love Letter to a Dive Bar That Refused to Die

I’m going to tell you about a place that got murdered. Not quick, not clean. Slow, by a thousand cuts from people in Patagonia vests who convinced themselves they were improving the neighborhood. The building’s still standing on California Avenue. The sign still hangs there like a tombstone. But Antonio’s Nut House? The real Antonio’s? […]

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Antonio’s Nut House, California Avenue: A Love Letter to a Dive Bar That Refused to Die

March 16, 2018

SOS Grocery (Disruption Town)

En el amor nadie piensa en la conveniencia. Isabel Allende, Ripper The now shuttered store operated until recently in Palo Alto since the 1920s. Signed Limited Edition print of 10; stamped on verso. Professional black & white printing on Hahnemühle fibre-based Matt paper.

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March 11, 2018 · Engineering

Disruption Imminent

Amazon delivery robots on the streets of Palo Alto: disruption imminent… Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy

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