A place for me to write some of my thoughts down while they're still floating around in my head. This'll probably go largely unseen but that's ok, it's just replacing my old journal that's starting fall apart anyways. Have your own thoughts? Please, comment! Let's discuss!

The Systems Approach: Police Brutality in the Context of Race

June 28, 2020  •  1 Comment
In an effort to better educate myself and practice some of the things I'm learning in grad school, I spent some time looking at the data behind a topic at the forefront of our current social landscape. I'm going to try to keep a good chunk of this post purely factual and just presenting my analysis of the data. The first question(s) any systems an...
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The State of the Space Industry

June 23, 2020  •  1 Comment
There's so many exciting things happening in the space industry right now that just aren't getting the attention it deserves. So here I am, yelling into the internet abyss. Let's start with SpaceX. It's hard to have the space exploration conversation these days without mentioning them. They came in and completely disrupted an industry where all th...
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America Needs to Have Constructive Political Discourse

June 19, 2020  •  1 Comment
Positive feedback loop. This is a system where a process occurs that creates a result which then expedites that process. For example, global warming results in the melting of icebergs which result in sun light getting absorbed instead of reflecting, thus amplifying global warming and so on and so forth. This is exactly what's happening in America'...
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Album Review: Kid A

June 13, 2020  •  Leave a Comment
WOW. Radiohead's always been on my radar but I ignorantly hadn't taken a deep dive through their discography until relatively recently. And what a mistake. This album absolutely wrecked me. It felt like the first time since Pink Floyd that I felt like an album was at the top of their game artistically and musically. In addition, the superb creative...
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The Creator's Blight

June 12, 2020  •  1 Comment
Something I've struggled with throughout my history of creating is finding the fine line of how to share your work. After I've spent a month or two on a big project, I'm excited to share it with my friends and family but always have the two little voices in the back of my head. One of them is the "You're too pushy, no one really wants to look at th...
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