Welcome to 2022, a science fiction world in which warring factions use the decals and iconography of the fading nation-states to stir their respective populations into action. Sometimes, when these decals are insufficient, religious iconography must be invoked. Whatever works. Branding matters. Each player is equipped with a PR budget…

I’m a gig economy guy with two paying gigs at the moment. I’m an 8th grade computer science teacher by day, and teach data analysis skills to adults by night. Like most people, I don’t go to weighty meetings to decide affairs of state. I sit back and watch my…

[ originally on Synergeo, typos fixed] I’m all into “place based education”, a term I learned form activist parents here in Portland. Given my dad’s city planning background, I tend to think in terms of maps and data overlays. I like the idea of high schoolers studying the…

Is Christianity a Factor? — Folks tend to personalize and project, finding a bad guy, before they’ll even think about taking responsibility for the Ouija Board, the collective “invisible hand” that guides so much more than economic decision-making. Economists never factor in enough dimensions, and think it worthy of a Nobel Prize if someone remembers…