Jun 8Love, Hate and PoliticsIn November 2016, Hillary Clinton concluded her presidential campaign with the words, “Love Trumps Hate.” The phrase, developed and designed by the Clinton campaign’s social media team, quickly went viral. It was on bumper stickers, t-shirts, Twitter, Facebook — everywhere you looked, if you lived in an area with a…Politics12 min readPolitics12 min read
Apr 25Talkin’ Crunchy Granola Far-Right Lefty BluesPrelude: An Uneasy Feeling on the Day of Atonement During Yom Kippur services this year at my progressive synagogue in Los Angeles, the rabbi invited to the pulpit Eric Garcetti, the Jewish mayor of Los Angeles, to lead everyone in a sing-along of Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’”…Bob Dylan32 min readBob Dylan32 min read
Aug 31, 2022They’re All Spoon FightsA few weeks back I was sitting at a local café with my friend Michael drinking coffee and talking about life and stuff. Our kids. He’s another “Old Dude New Dad” — someone who became a first-time Dad at about age 50. His daughter had come home from school with…12 min read12 min read
Aug 29, 2022Bringing It All Back Home (Again)Bringing It All Back Home (Again) Back in the dark ages, a billion years ago, I started a blog called Andy’s Chest, named after the song by Lou Reed. And by a billion years ago, I mean August 2000, but it feels like a billion years ago. And when I…2 min read2 min read
Jan 4, 2022NFTs and crypto are bullshit and you’re all suckersThe Big Lie of Web 3.0 What you pay attention to, grows. At a moment when every single person on the planet should be single-mindedly focused on addressing climate change so we don’t irreparably destroy our environment and ourselves, it is borderline criminal for people to be pushing a technology…Nft4 min readNft4 min read
Sep 11, 2021First Person: Twenty Years AfterI’ve been trying to write an essay about 9/11 for more than a year. With the 20th anniversary coming up I wanted to write something really meaningful and profound about how 9/11 affected me over the past twenty years. At first, I thought, “Who wants to hear your 9/11 story…9 11 Attacks16 min read9 11 Attacks16 min read
Jan 28, 2021On Not-KnowingLet me tell you a story. I was on a tour bus in Berlin, seated in front of my new friend, Magnus, a theater director and scholar from Iceland who was part of a group that had been invited to attend a theater festival by the Goethe Institute. “What is…4 min read4 min read
Jul 16, 2020Let Them Die (Caring is Womanly and Weak)“We’ve got to get the economy up and running. We’ve got to get back to business, we’ve got to get this country back in business. People die, so what? You gotta break a few eggs, right? We need to make more money. I need to make more money. Get the…Covid-195 min readCovid-195 min read
Published inGoFAr·May 12, 2020The Future: Yesterday, Today and TomorrowWhen I was first introduced to the Guild of Future Architects I was inspired by its mission to serve as “a home, refuge and resource for people collaboratively shaping a kind, just, inclusive, and prosperous world.” The timeline — a century — seemed consistent with the ambition of the work…Future6 min readFuture6 min read
Apr 19, 2020The Future, Revisited: “The Mother of All Demos” at 50This essay was originally published on December 8, 2018 by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Part 1: The Future Revealed A MILD-MANNERED ENGINEER stands onstage at San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium. A massive video screen looms behind him, displaying a close-up of his face in the lower right half of…History Of Technology21 min readHistory Of Technology21 min read
