General Technology / Programming

• Nested Routers in Express
• Error Handling Patterns in Express
• A Gentle Overview of Express.js: Introduction
• A Gentle Overview of Express.js: Install and Configure
• A Gentle Overview of Express.js: Basic Routing
• A Gentle Overview of Express.js: Using Routers
• A Gentle Overview of Express.js: Middleware
• Mysterious Errors: Case Sensitive Webpack Imports
• Mysterious Errors: SequelizeBaseError Insert or Update Violates Foreign Key Constraint
• The Revealing Module Pattern in Javascript
• How to Understand this and Binding in Javascript
• How to Build an Interstellar VR Commlink with Google Daydream and WebAudio Part 1: Making NASA style Radio Transmissions with Tuna.js and WebAudio API
• Include in Sequelize
• Returning in Sequelize
• Don't Use display:none to hide iFrames in Safari

Game Dev / Game Programming

• The benefits of porting a UNET game to SpatialOS

  From OOP to Entity-Component architecture when trying to scale a persistent-world simulation

• Persistent Data Between Scenes: How to Use PlayerPrefs in Unity

Bootcamp Mastery

A short series about getting the most value out of your coding bootcamp

• Bootcamp Mastery: Why Did I Choose Fullstack Academy in NYC?
• Bootcamp Mastery: The Danger of So-called 'Conceptual Understanding'
• Bootcamp Mastery: Do it From Memory
• Bootcamp Mastery: When Should I Go To a Coding Bootcamp?
• Bootcamp Mastery: Peers Matter
• Bootcamp Mastery: Less Talking, More Coding
• Bootcamp Mastery: Momentum... Be Like Your Accountant
• Bootcamp Mastery: Distraction is the Enemy
• Bootcamp Mastery: You're a Good Programmer So Keep Your Positive Self Narrative
• Bootcamp Mastery: Do As Many Tests as You Can
• Bootcamp Mastery: Why Go To An Immersive Bootcamp?
• Bootcamp Mastery: How To Ace your Senior Checkpoint at Fullstack

Education

• Is this the future of higher education?

Virgin.com's Disruptor Series Feature on the MPC

• The Fragility of the Socratic Method

While the 'Socratic approach' to learning wipes way the so-called oppression of the traditional classroom, it has a set of serious problems all its own.

• The Creativity Fan Club (and Why I Hate Them)

Speech about grit and creative achievement at opening of MPC, 2015.

• Let a Thousand Learners Bloom: Toward an Anti-Fragile Classroom

Environments of real learning should feel somewhat chaotic, because turbulence strengthens social bonds, challenges existing ideas, and forces people to grow and adapt.

• The Inverse Khan Academy

How to Reinvent Education After Computers Replace Lectures

• Education is About Habits: The Philosophy of the MPC Learning Contract

Commitment contracts should be central to how we educate, because habits are what count in the long run.

• The Routines of Great Creators

Book review of Daily Rituals by Mason Currey

• Full Contact Learning

Practical strategies for living a life focused on learning.

• A Dean's Letter to the Rejected

Why everyone who gets a rejection letter from their dream school should chill out and get to work.

Community Technology / Startup Cities

• Startup Cities: Can Entrepreneurship Save Politics

Virgin.com feature/interview on Startup Cities. This was shared by Richard Branson and launched about two years of speaking gigs!

• The Most Important Technology of the 21st Century

Thinking of social systems as technology can de-politicize our conversation about important social issues. Reframing around technology also focuses us on finding concrete solutions, rather than fighting ideologically.

• How Local Governments Could Work More Like Cell Phones

Feature in The Atlantic's CityLab about work on Startup Cities.

• In the Zone: Creating A Toolbox for Regional Prosperity

The New Zealand Initiative used some of my work as a frame for their research on special economic zones

• Innovating Governance with Startup Cities

How an entrepreneurial approach to community development can build a brighter future for politics.

• The Problem of Possibility – Competitive Governance, Complex Systems, and Political Reform

In moments of political reform we can find an important but under-appreciated idea I call "the Problem of Possibility." This problem is that complex evolutionary systems like economies face astronomically large design spaces that they must search for adaptive fit. This challenge of ignorance and complexity is usually ignored when people talk about political economy. Rapid adaptation of a social system requires competition for scientific, not ideological or moral reasons.

Book Chapters

Chapter in Basic Income and the Free Market

Co-authored book chapter on the possibilities of using land-trusts and for-profit community development models to provide basic income guarantees for the poor.

Chapter in Hayek and Behavioral Economics

Co-authored book chapter on the history of behavioral economics

Memoir

• Giancarlo Ibárgüen: An Appreciation

It was very sad to lose friend and mentor Giancarlo Ibárgüen in 2016, an irrepressible entrepreneur and leader in Latin America.

Other/Rants

• The Superpower of the 21st Century: Presence

• Everything You Need To Know About Body Language

  Summary of FBI Interrogator Joe Navarro's work on body language

• Spontaneous Order: Awakening the Sacred

  A (non-theistic) spiritual outlook based on understanding the universe as a complex system with emergent, spontaneous order.