Students: Don Your Masks, Evidence Be Damned.

Jul 29, 202118 min read

Why must those least at risk be deprived of the most? Mask mandates reduce opportunities for enjoyment and fulfillment at school, yet they don’t even…

Who is Endorsing Whom in Seattle’s 2021 August 3rd Primary?

Jul 25, 20218 min read

Catching up with the latest organizational endorsements for the August 3rd, 2021 Primary for Seattle

Seattle’s Grand Rock-Throwing Experiment: Will Our Actual Virtue Exceed Our Desire to Signal It?

Jul 20, 202115 min read

If you wanted to design a real-life test to figure out if a civic leader’s actual virtue exceeds their desire to signal it, you could…

The Stranger’s Political Endorsements Have Been Disastrous for Seattle

Jul 15, 20217 min read

The Stranger’s recommendations have occupied the key policy setting positions in Seattle, other than mayor, for quite some time. They’re no longer the outsiders; they’re…

Ten Reasons I’m Not Voting for Lorena González as Seattle’s Next Mayor

Jul 13, 202127 min read

When major outcome indicators are all moving in the wrong direction, and the process which generates these outcomes remains utterly broken for years, and even…

Internet Consensus Is Not Truth

May 28, 202128 min read

How do you know what’s true? Do you have enough healthy, respectful dissent in your information diet?