DJ Strouse

My Goodreads Rating: 4 of 5 stars
Interested in cybernetics, theoretical biology, and philosophy but still find Dan Brown novels to require mental gymnastics? Put on your philosophical training wheels and give “Tree of Knowledge” a spin!
A mixture of dated scientific ideas, profound frameworks for thinking about living organisms, and unnecessarily complicated jargon, ToK is [...]

The following post was inspired by a NY Times article shared with me by Lena Enck, a recent USC graduate spending at least the next year doing good on the Indian subcontinent. It is adapted from an email response. I highly encourage you to read the above article first, one, because the following [...]

This blog post on the effects of “growing up connected” on child development sent chills through my body: not those of fear but of realization.
I’ve focused so hard on how new technologies provide opportunities (implicitly to humans thinking roughly the same way they have for millenia) that I hadn’t thought much about the way these [...]