Date Archives July 2020

Children of the Cave: A Fascinating Finnish Novel of Ideas

Reading 22 July 2020 2 Comments

In Children of the Cave, Finnish writer Virve Sammalkorpi imagines an encounter between a group of explorers and some strange creatures living in a cave in the remote forests of northern Russia that look like animals but also have some very human characteristics.

No, I Don’t Have the Bandwidth Right Now

Thinking 13 July 2020 6 Comments

Something is very wrong with the English language. People have started asking me if I have the “bandwidth” to work on new projects. What am I, a modem? This is part of a broader trend of viewing human beings as machines. When we need a break, we go offline. When we achieve something new, we level up. In a corporate… Read More