I had been vacillating on posting a draft because I wasn’t sure whether to call it: masking or disguising. Last week, while working on …
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Transcending academic book writing conventions and weaknesses
I’ve published three books with an academic press, and with each I strove to be accessible to general readers. The last, Hacking Life, was …
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Pelican with pandoc and cache
“Which organized geeks should I talk to?”
Though people have always hacked their lives (e.g., Ben Franklin is claimed as an early example), the birth of “life hacking” is dated as …
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Improving PDF Annotations from GoodReader
The officiousness of Wikipedia (my bio still sucks)
[Update: on 2020-Aug-092 Wikipedian Biogeographist improved my biography.]
My English Wikipedia bio has sucked for as long as it’s existed. (Sometimes it doesn’t …
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Hoaxes, “grievance studies,” and Ronell
I was in grad school during the Sokal hoax and, as strange as it sounds, the hoax was a comfort to me. I applied to …
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Digital Complicity
Earlier this year I posted a summary of Lepora and Goodin’s (2013) framework for complicity; I now have a draft making use of that …
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Ditch your word processor: Write prose like code in a text editor
Lepora and Goodin on Complicity
What is complicity? Lepora and Goodin (2013) provide the most comprehensive framework for parsing and assessing the moral blameworthiness of complicit behavior.
In their analysis …
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