Constructive Criticism

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Mar 26, 2026
How is qualitative change possible?
An important principle in the philosophy of dialectics is the transformation of quantity into quality. That is, a system which undergoes a significant enough “quantitative change” which eventually …
Apr 17, 2025
How to make a call tree that still works when people flake
I believe techniques from math and science are able to help us produce stronger organizations (if the educational and political barriers can be worked through). If this is true, we should probably be able to …
Mar 31, 2025
Capital in Transit
This is a piece I made recently titled In Transit. It depicts paths, which each transition from random motion to a regular spiral motion as the letters along the path grow. It is a generative piece, meaning it …
Mar 11, 2025
Contradiction
Mao wrote The law of contradiction in things, that is, the law of the unity of opposites, is the basic law of materialist dialectics… The fundamental cause of the development of a thing is not external …
Feb 26, 2025
Math is about managing your emotions
Recently I have been doing some math again. Mostly exercises for a class I’m auditing on combinatorial limits. One thing I forgot about math is how most of the time spent doing math is spent feeling very …
Feb 17, 2025
Badiou in the world
$$\newcommand{\Set}[1]{\\{ #1 \\}}$$ In his book Logics of Worlds, Badiou gives a formal mathematical definition of a “world”, but does not construct a single concrete example. In this note, I give a concrete …
Feb 17, 2025
Prints of late
A few more prints I’ve done recently. Here are some Risograph prints I made in 2023 and the first half of 2024. Apologies for the photos being a bit dim. Posters for a Seeing Red talk. A map to the …
Feb 10, 2025
A short piece of music
Here is a short piece of music I wrote this afternoon. It ends a bit early but I had to get going. Enjoy.
Jan 3, 2025
More organic cave automata
Happy New Year! There is a well-known cellular-automaton based method for generating images that look like caves. Each cell is either “empty” or a “wall”. The rule is: if the immediate …
Nov 13, 2024
The Sacrifice
Tarkovsky’s “Sacrifice” is an incredible film. The film successfully captures a shred of the absolute: the truth of the unending process of living and dying. A central image of the film …