Belief
Reading Time: 1 minute Am I the last person on earth who believes in myself?
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I turned 26
Reading Time: 2 minutes on the first of May. I am always grateful to have been born on Labor Day, and grateful for a life I live contingent on so many hands who have built for me, as distant as the world tries to pull us apart.
Beginning of March
Reading Time: 4 minutes I feel like I am really behind in work, and am racing with ideas. I live in New York now, and work has been gratifying and intense in the product design/software sense, but my creative practice is also feeling a lot. I m saying no to many things I was overly generous about before. I am [ ]
ambiences, agencies, apparitions
Reading Time: 1 minute i ve been interested in describing my practice as relations between ambience (condition/enclosure) — agency (action) – apparition (traces/aftermaths) Ambiences as in the environmental conditions of the world; feeling before understanding / feeling as understanding; ambience as material process; the invisible logic and condition that we move through / perceive (or fail to);…
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Reading Time: 1 minute I want to do the greatest work of my life. Many problems entice me across tooling, infrastructures, and social problems – but I keep going back to hypertext, how boring. Truly: We ve barely began telling stories to each other on the internet. Still, we ve achieved intimacies and proximities that feel endlessly special. I want to [ ]
My favorite videogames
Reading Time: 1 minute maybe most in this list I made from 2023:
citational circlings
Reading Time: 3 minutes there s a strange, kind of petty problem that i feel like i have been facing from strangers and sooometimes, peers around my circle of work. i feel a bit like a child writing about this, but it s so frequent and strangely upsetting the more it happens that i d kind of like to air it out, [ ]
I turned 25
Reading Time: 2 minutes On May 1st. I spent a lot of time thinking about how my whole life has been about proving people wrong. I am not the type of person that people hold faith in, not since I was a child, nor in recent times. If there s something that will mark 24 to me, it might be [ ]
Tropical Technologist
Reading Time: 14 minutes This essay was initially commissioned published for Carrie Hott s Our Shiver, a solar-powered server at the Lab, San Francisco. This version exists as a mirror on my blog in addition to this HTML one. From the pisonet, the aircon, the data center, to the POGO In the archipelago, technology swells at every extreme.All matters [ ]
Nora Aunor as Network
Reading Time: 17 minutes I have a different image of Jesus Christ which is that of a woman, a very ordinary-looking Filipino woman, who drinks with them and has stories to tell. – Jonathan Beller