American cities are about to run into a wall. "A transit wall?" Well, yes, but- "Oh, a budgetary wall." I mean yes we are however– "Oh of course, a housing wall!" OK, bit that's gotten old, I mean a technical capacity wall
Hey there! It's been a while. I've been quiet on here because I've been writing a book for the whole past year, and it kind of ate my whole life. It's called The Happiness Liability, it's a speculative fiction novella
Dear Matthew Costello, COO of Beats Electronics, I come to you not as a customer, not even as a loyalist, but as a desperate man with giant ears, glasses, and a dream. You see, I’ve tried everything in the Apple/Beats headphone ecosystem. I’ve danced with AirPods Pro,
A quick note before we dive in: This is a deeply technical post for my friends who are already neck-deep in the AI space. If you're here for my fiction writing, I promise the next short story is coming - I'm just being a perfectionist about
This essay was inspired by two great pieces I've recently read: Thomas Ptacek's "My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts" and Andy Masley's "All The Ways I Want The AI Debate To Be Better". I really cannot recommend those two
They insisted a month in that it would just be thirty days, maybe sixty. Thanks for reading Beneath The Surface! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. In November, CNN reported that the FDA expected the ADHD drug shortage to last for two more months. The
Hello there! I hope you’ve been doing well. This weekend, Megan and I were able to go to an event here at the University of Puget Sound called the “Empowering Asian-Americans Open Forum” with three panel speakers: * Chevi Chung, an actor and director based in Tacoma and founding
Hello! It has been a considerable while. Before we talk about whale poop, let’s reset about where I’ve been. Yesterday I wrote up a LinkedIn post celebrating the efforts done by 2 Towns Ciderhouse at the start of the pandemic, and as I wrote it I remembered something
We had a surprisingly short traditional summer in the Pacific Northwest this year. Our summer briefly existed in June and then started up again sometime in late August. In between, we had “heat season”. When heat season kicked in late June as temperatures broke into the 90s and then kept
Hello to you, the reader! I am Shreyans Khunteta, also known by Shrey, a software developer, occasional standup comic, mutual aid organiser, writer, Indian, Oregonian, and muller of various thoughts. I am not an expert on any particular topic - I am merely a vivacious reader who likes to constantly consume