When I was in Tzfat, in Israel, I bought a merkabah star necklace. I often think about leaving all this behind and moving to a place with a simpler life. I'm in NASA now, close to halfway through an incredible journey through space and time and the future and technology. I have two start-ups in the works and a half-dozen business ideas that need ( Read more... )

This morning I got the email from Singularity University congratulating me on getting accepted. I have been fantasizing about this possibility since it first launched in January. I can't even wrap my head around what this is going to mean for my life. Last summer, I was reading The Singularity Is Near. And this summer, I am going to actually be ( Read more... )

So I'm probably kind of fucked. I mean, in life. Like what Aussie Dave said "doomed to succeed". Things wear out so quickly, and nothing ever hits the spot. I love graduate school. Working nearly full-time and going to school full time is some buuuuullshit, I won't lie. There are so many things it precludes-no Student Senate seat, no ( Read more... )

So at the moment I am (procrastinating on) creating my syllabus for the academic writing course in Istanbul that I want to teach. I haven't taught academic writing in a classroom setting before, so the process is revealing to me the gaps in my own formal education. It's funny when you consider yourself a strong writer for so long that you forget ( Read more... )

These are my options for the summer, any of which would be pretty much the best way to turn 27 EVER ( Read more... )

Well, I was! But no longer. I am taking three classes this semester:

"Time, Life, Matter - Topics in the Histories of Science, Technology, and Media"This course will be a preliminary survey of the latest methodological and theoretical approaches in Science and Media studies as they intersect with critical history and historiography. Topics to be ( Read more... )

Okay, the reviews are up. You can read 'em at GutMusic!

PUBLISHED ON THE INTERWEBS! Let the global empire-building begin.

P.S. Join The New Futurists already! It only takes 5 seconds. Ezpecially you, rzx, and ozmakid!

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I have some SUPER DUPER projects in the works! I am very excited as usual ( Read more... )

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On this week's episode of "Doomed to Succeed," Sofya brings us another revelatory moment in the pursuit of boundless ambition without direction:I opened an old book from my undergrad years called "Art in Other Places" about the grassroots efforts of artists and educators to bring art to places other than traditional teaching sites: hospitals, ( Read more... )