Woke 2 is Woke 1 with an honest relation to power.

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.

Mismanagement and political campaigning have sucked the joy out of an event meant to bring people together

Like Imperial Japan before us, the United States has substituted tactical and operational planning for strategic thinking.

This blog post takes us back to 2010, retracing and incident where a statistical anomaly led to the discovery of a subtle flaw in the way we were using a security-critical library.

Five Italian divers died in a cave at 55 m. Before anyone delivers a verdict, here are the questions Just Culture demands we ask first — and why their sequence matters.

By Lee Vinsel

I'm reposting this essay I wrote in 2021 because the online blogging platform Medium has apparently changed its policies and people are having trouble accessing the original. Hopefully, I'll find a better, more durable solution soon. I'm reposting it unaltered, even though I would unsurprisingly do some

Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake

NFTs, the metaverse and AI are the most recent Silicon Valley enthusiasms. Does anyone remember how to build a consumer product?

World War II has faded into movies, anecdotes, and archives that nobody cares about anymore. Are we finally losing the war?

Criticism of public schools is not entirely wrong – but by ignoring unequal conditions, it misdiagnoses the problem and misplaces responsibility.

I work in a sector that speaks out on racism and human rights, yet on this issue I have felt the boundaries of acceptable speech narrow around me

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.