Category Archives for Thinking
Shlok Vaidya’s thinking.
On Human Evolution, Personality Disorders, and the Environment
Some idle thoughts on the evolution of humanity’s relationship with its environment as sparked by this article, which states: Individuals who scored in the top 10% of manic features had a childhood IQ almost 10 points higher than those who scored … Continue reading
Fuck Your High-Minded Design
The approach of giving up, opting out, or, frankly, being a coward and not tackling the big problems – things like survival in war – reduces the field of design to pretty fucking pixels on a fucking screen. Continue reading
Remixing Today
I’m remixing today to see tomorrow. Pitch: OPM hack was obfuscation. Data was injected, not stolen. MS13 now has dozens of sleeper agents in the pipeline. — Shlok Vaidya (@shloky) July 22, 2015 Pitch: Pluto mission goes awry, New Horizons … Continue reading
Agbogbloshie and Formalizing the Supply Chain
…a scrap yard at the impossibly teeming Agbogbloshie market in Ghana’s capital, mining — along with hundreds of men and boys — for metal wires and parts that can be re-sold and burning the plastic that encases them. Hour after … Continue reading
Extending Security, Extending Governance
The service is essentially a geolocation-enabled emergency notification system which acts as an extension of one’s home alarm system. Security, the protection of the physical self and property, was a service provided once by kings, then by nation-states. The theory … Continue reading