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The Intellectual Prisoner

The kind of person who is pretty smart – in the sense they can do stupid shit for Wall Street money – but can’t conceive of applying their ‘smarts’ towards changing the world. Continue reading

01. June 2013 by Shlok Vaidya
Categories: Thinking | 7 comments

Fiction: Distinguished Warfare Medal Citation

Making fun of the now defunct Distinguished Warfare Medal. Continue reading

13. February 2013 by Shlok Vaidya
Categories: Speculative Fiction | 1 comment

Review: Detroit – An American Autopsy

It presents the viewpoint that we’re not careening into failure. We’re already there. Ours is a state soon to be hollowed out by failed cities. America was murdered. What we live in is fundamentally different from what we had. We’re in the middle of launching what is new. Its time to approach it that way. Continue reading

07. February 2013 by Shlok Vaidya
Categories: Review | Tags: | 3 comments

Idea: Save the Information in Nonprofits, Save the World.

You can’t trust these behemoth corporations to give us a level playing field. You have to make it. And we’re at a point where it needs to be done in an intentional and aggressive way. Otherwise we stand to lose control of the decentralized global platform that underpins life today. Continue reading

03. February 2013 by Shlok Vaidya
Categories: Idea | 3 comments

Urban Combat Wallets

For some reason Kickstarter is filled to the brim with RFID blocking, anodized metal, disciplined wallets. It’s not that impressive. Continue reading

29. January 2013 by Shlok Vaidya
Categories: Design | 1 comment

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