Society

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My special needs brother’s obsession with the printed book. (6/16/22)

An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg first published Sept. 23, 2018 on the Deucerman at Random blog. (9/23/18, Republished 11/15/21)

Finding Home

1: Decisions, Decisions (8/11/21)
2: Santa Cruz (9/12/21)
3: Livermore (10/21/21)

Dispatches from our search for the right place to spend the rest of our lives, in 3 parts. (In The Shadow) (For what it’s worth, we landed in Livermore in February 2023.)

Privatize the Profit, Socialize the Pain

To deal with the challenge of social media, we’ll all have to suffer. (In The Shadow)

The Great Carta Blanca Heist of 1976

Teen-age hijinks and white privilege in the Santa Clara Valley. (In The Shadow) (1/25/21)

Reclaiming Silicon Valley

Careless misuse of a name marginalizes a storied history and an indispensable present. (1/20/21)