Category: Culture
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Why would you want to drive behind a slow cyclist?
Whenever I’m engaged in a conversation and the other party is saying something that doesn’t resonate with me, something I don’t get or something that just seems strange, I make an honest effort to put myself in the other person’s shoes. I do research, thought experiments, bounce scenarios off friends, hypothesize with LLMs, etc. I…
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Time Travel
I often think about what it would be like for teenage Ryan to be transported 25 or 30 years into the future… as you do. What aspects of culture or technology would surprise him the most? The two things I come back to over and over again are tattoos and FaceTime. Tattoos I don’t even…
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The Implicit Contract of The Internet
Earlier I posted this… …and I’ve realized that this is actually something that’s been bothering me for some time. I’ve been living in public online – posting details about my life that might have historically been seen as private, right out in the open – for decades now. Especially during the heyday of web 2.0.…
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Car Co-op Experiment
Well, not yet. Not literally. Winnipeg’s Peg-City Car Co-op has been on my mind recently for one reason or another. I’ve come to the conclusion that if they opened a station on my street I would probably immediately get rid of my car! When I say “my street” I literally mean my street. There are…
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On Social Networks and Twitter
I have been extremely online since the late 1990s. I’ve been using The Internet socially since I was a teenager, so the concept of a “social network” has always seemed a little reductive to me. For me and my peers, a social network is maybe a more connected and organized internet experience. A simplification and…