I am uncomfortable with the idea of using smart contracts with the underprivileged in the US; one of the virtues of them is that they are not strongly regulated by the government, but that is also problematic when they are not guaranteed to be secure. Ethereum can be forked when...

For my meditation this week, I decided to take a look at sexism in movie scripts. I came to this topic after a long deliberation. When I read that we were to tap into unconscious, subconscious, and the collective, my thoughts turned immediately to the latent biases everyone has. But...

The lathe was out of service last week, so I had a week off from blogging about Subtraction. The metal lathe was admittedly a bit intimidating, but I had wanted to try it. Oh well! This week, we tackled the 4-Axis mill. The hardest part of this week’s exercise was...

Problem Statement The problem of being unbanked affects 2 billion people in the world, the impact of which is that they have no access to credit, insurance, savings, and payments. Compelling Stories I found the following links about un/underbanked American families– I hope that my teammates find sources on non-American...

It’s always weird using other people’s computers, especially when they look so similar to your own. Whenever I have to help anybody with programming, or look up something on their Macbook, it’s always bewildering: will they scroll in the same direction as I do? Did they set up hot corners?...

Scratch the previous post– for my Doing Good final, I was put into a group to research a project on finance. Having long been a Bitcoin skeptic (the price going up does little to convince me) and unsure of what innovations one should try ahead of more data from GiveDirectly,...

In our last class for Electronic Rituals, I read Tarot for the very first time– and discovered that it’s an activity that I very much enjoy. Interpreting the cards and figuring out how it might be relevant to a friend’s life was challenging and interesting. My only problem with the...

This week in Subtraction, we’re making foosball players on the wood lathe. Supposedly, we’re going to play an actual game with our players, but hopefully I will not play. I’m terrible and don’t particularly like the game– in terms of tabletop fictional sports, I prefer air hockey. (So Canadian of...