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Fort Emplacements and FDM: making Castle Doctrine

How I made Castle Doctrine, a 1:1 scale fully 3D-Printed American Revolutionary War era cannon.

over a year ago 61 votes
Back into the FE-AL: Iron Pour at Sculpture Trails Indiana

In which I detail the process of making a cannonball by participating at a very unique iron casting event.

over a year ago 32 votes
Sending a signal - DOGMAS, a project because of the RP2040

How and why I built the DOGMAS project, a self contained Morse code reader in the form of a candle.

over a year ago 37 votes
Host Jumping, thinking about viruses and how they’re changing.

Thinking about the concepts and reasons behind the making of my work ‘Host Jump’.

over a year ago 58 votes

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“Can’t complain” (but it might be worth considering)

Complaining is a cultural phenomenon, but it’s particularly prevalent in societies with a consumer culture (the customer is always right) and those where comfort is coming to be expected. Given all the complaining we do (about the weather, leadership, products, service and various ailments), it’s worth taking a moment to think about why we complain. […]

16 hours ago 2 votes
The rich don't have authority

On the myth of power and money

yesterday 2 votes
What’s for breakfast?

Peter Drucker didn’t say “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” but reality rarely gets in the way of a good quote. But what does it mean? I think what ‘not Drucker’ meant was that MBA tactics will always be subverted by the power of systems, and that systems disguise themselves as culture (“what are things like […]

2 days ago 2 votes
The UnPopulist: Abundance Politics

This week I’m in The UnPopulist with an article about the politics of the abundance agenda:

4 days ago 3 votes
Are More Celebrities Dying? A Statistical Analysis

Are more famous figures dying, and if so, why?

4 days ago 6 votes