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Feb 13, 2021

What Every “Getting Started Podcasting” Guide Gets Wrong

And how to actually start a podcast — Podcasting can be a fun, productive, creative, and social hobby. However, there is a barrier of entry to it. It involves learning skills than many soon-to-be podcasters do not have, such as audio recording, production, and editing, as well as community management & promotion. Before I started my podcast, I…

Podcast

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Podcast

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·Jun 22, 2018

Go to https://medium.com/future-history for Spectology’s blog.

Go to https://medium.com/future-history for Spectology’s blog.

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May 8, 2017

Strange Flavor Peanuts recipe

These are a delicious, spicy, numbing, flavor-packed snack. I tried to build a recipe which is satisfying in small amounts—it’s something you’ll want to eat a few at a time rather than by the handful. I developed this recipe because most the recipes I could find didn’t really live up…

Recipe

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Strange Flavor Peanuts recipe
Strange Flavor Peanuts recipe
Recipe

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Apr 8, 2017

Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me about Using Twitter for News

I’ve been using twitter as my main news source for about 6 months now, and since I’ve had a few people on Facebook ask me how I do it, here are some general principles I’ve learned as a relative twitter newbie, as well as a “starter pack” of good people…

Twitter

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Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me about Using Twitter for News
Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me about Using Twitter for News
Twitter

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Dec 14, 2016

Child, Bully, Abuser, President

Donald Trump isn’t simply a petulant boy, and it’s dangerous to describe him that way — [TW: emotional & sexual abuse tactics] I came across a tweet the other day that gave me pause. I had seen this in action. There are plenty of sources calling Trump a child: Eggers wrote the piece from the above tweet, multiple outlets have interviewed child psychologists and experts…

Abuse

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Child, Bully, Abuser, President
Child, Bully, Abuser, President
Abuse

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Published in Spectology, n.

·Nov 14, 2016

Six Science Fiction Novels (and Then Some) to Read in the Age of Trump

I wanted to present a list of speculative fiction novels that have helped me understand the election of Trump, and inform my view of how things will unfold. This list doesn’t claim to be anything other than me recommending books to others, and is in no way definitive. It’s narrow…

Books

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Six Science Fiction Novels (and Then Some) to Read in the Age of Trump
Six Science Fiction Novels (and Then Some) to Read in the Age of Trump
Books

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Published in Spectology, n.

·Dec 3, 2014

Education and Game Design

In which my job and guilty pleasure are fruitfully combined. — While I was at General Assembly, we had a tradition of asking new hires a few questions to get to know them better. Some are the typical (who are you, what are you doing here, where are you coming from). But one stands out: what is your guilty pleasure? While…

Game Design

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Game Design

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Published in Spectology, n.

·Jul 28, 2014

Bitcoin’s Structure Problem

“The Tyranny of Structurelessness” and why decentralization isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. This is somewhat of a long post, something I’ve had kicking around for a while. It’s pretty critical of bitcoin as it currently exists, particularly the social structures surrounding bitcoin. …

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Bitcoin’s Structure Problem
Bitcoin’s Structure Problem

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Published in Spectology, n.

·Apr 29, 2014

The Illegible Re-Org

How evolving org structures can lead to strong systems.  — Legibility is a concept introduced by James C. Scott in his book Seeing Like a State. Governing bodies, he posits, simplify the world through abstraction to make it easier to understand and control. German foresters of the 18th Century viewed forests through the lens of revenue. They ceased to value…

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The Illegible Re-Org
The Illegible Re-Org

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Published in Spectology, n.

·Mar 26, 2014

The Night Sky

Memories of a rural Alaskan youth — I grew up in rural Alaska. Winters were rough—not a lot to do, very dark and depressing. I spent a lot of time just staring at the stars. Up there, far away from civilization, the light of the stars cuts through the cold, dark sky and opens up the entire…

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The Night Sky
The Night Sky

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Adrian M Ryan

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I write about language, philosophy, literature, technology, and space.

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