Recent Essays

And All I Saw was the Water

A Discourse on the Construction of Sex and Gender

November 4, 2008

In California right now, a debate is raging over a proposition which aims to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry. In question are the values and descriptions of human sexuality, and by derivative sex, gender, and culture. Accounting for sex and gender fluidity, it's clear that a new perspective on sexuality should establish equal protection without endangering spiritual tradition: If marriage is only between one man and one woman, what's for the 1.7 percent of us that are neither?

Productivity Zen

A Reintroduction to the Practice of GTD

May 31, 2008

Since writing my last article on personal productivity, a number of people have written in asking for updates. I'll make every attempt to keep this platform-neutral: whether you're using a Mac, a Windows or Linux machine, or a simple paper-and-pencil implementation of David Allen's GTD system, it always helps to see how other people are doing it. This article covers what works for me, and is adapted from an email on GTD that I recently sent to a colleague.

Earlier Essays

Neurological Outsourcing :: The phylogenetic progression of brain functions through regions	December 19, 2007
Anomie of the State :: On the Cultural Isolation of Consumer Capitalism	December 6, 2007
Progress to Progress :: The Process of Progress in Democratized Capitalism	December 6, 2007
Back in the USSA :: The Landscape of American Socialism	December 3, 2007
Meaningful Existence :: The Structure of a Purposeful Life	November 11, 2007
On Human Intelligence :: When Homo Economicus becoms Emotional	November 11, 2007
The War on Terra :: An Integrative Analysis of the Coalition War on Terror	October 29, 2007
Religionomics :: On the Social Economics of Religion and Spirituality	October 21, 2007
Mental Pollution, Social Pollution :: On the Codependence of Externalities	October 15, 2007
Post-Industrial Economics :: The Structure of the Global Economy after the Industrial Age	October 7, 2007
Ethically-Driven Social Satisfaction :: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Job	October 2, 2007
Social Class and Human Rights :: The Rights of the Construction of Class	September 23, 2007
The Promises and Pains of Modernity :: On the Religion of Consumerism	September 18, 2007
Be True :: On the Epistemology of Truth	September 10, 2007
Full-Spectrum Attention Management :: On My Personal GTD Setup	June 3, 2007