Writing

Freelance:

— Two Arrested and Charged in Czech Republic for Distributing Ayahuasca | Lucid News, November 2020.

— The Boundless Optimism and Timeless Wisdom of Fantastic Negrito, on Grammy-winning blues musician Fantastic Negrito | Level, March 2019.

— My Name is Ahmed. Am I White? on Arab American identity and the U.S. Census | Gen, February 2019.

— Confessions of a Juul Junkie, on e-cigarette addiction | Gen, December 2018.

— Naming the Unspoken Thing, on secret psychedelic art parties in the Bay Area | Gen, October 2018.

— What Happens When a Computer Runs Your Life, on a software engineer who has embraced the randomness of algorithms to make life choices | OneZero, July 2018.

— Tripping on Acid with My Dad, on bridging familial divides with psychedelics | “Trips Worth Telling”, an essay series for Medium edited by Michael Pollan, May 2018.

— This magical drug mansion in Upstate New York is where the psychedelic ‘60s took off, on Timothy Leary’s time at Millbrook | Timeline, July 2017.

— This Mexican medicine woman hipped America to magic mushrooms, with the help of a bank executive, on María Sabina and psilocybin mushrooms | Timeline, January 2017.

— This genius chemist spent 50 years creating psychedelic drugs in his home lab…for a good cause, on Alexander Shulgin and the history of MDMA | Timeline, December 2016.

— Meet the psychedelics-obsessed scientist who wanted to learn dolphins’ language, on John Lilly’s research into dolphin communication and psychedelics | Timeline, November 2016.

Book Chapters:

— The Medicine Woman of Huautla de Jiménez, on María Sabina and psilocybin mushrooms | Catalogue essay for The Museum of Old and New Art’s book, Eat the Problem (Hobart: Museum of Old and New Art, April 2019).

Journal Articles:

— The New Myth: Frederic Spiegelberg and the Rise of a Whole Earth, 1914-1968, on a German professor of comparative religions who inspired the San Francisco counterculture | Integral Review, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jul., 2012), 43-61.

Staff Writer + Editor, The Long Now Foundation:

— Long-term Perspectives During a Pandemic (editor), essays from futurists, scientists and journalists on COVID-19 | Long Now, May 2020.

— Visions from the Neobiological Frontier, an interview with Jane Metcalfe, Founder of WIRED and CEO of NEO.LIFE | Long Now, March 2020.

— Our Long Bets and Predictions about 2020, analysis and adjudication of bets made about the year 2020 | Long Now, February 2020.

— The Permanent Legacy Foundation Wants to Preserve your Digital Legacy For Future Generations, on combatting a digital dark age | Long Now, February 2020.

— A Trips Festival for the Digital Age, on Barcelona’s Sónar Festival and its place in the tradition of avant garde multimedia happenings | Long Now, November 2019.

— What a Prehistoric Monument Reveals about the Value of Maintenance, on the 3,000 year-old White Horse of Uffington | Long Now, September 2019.

— What the Desert Teaches (editor), a survey of contemporary practice around Land Art | Part 3 of a series on Land Art in the American West in Long Now, May 2019.

— Long Now Lessons from Notre Dame, on the Notre Dame fire | Long Now, April 2019.

— This is How the Universe Ends, on Melodysheep’s viral science video, Timelapse of the Future | Long Now, April 2019.

— Transmissions from the Ambient Frontier (editor), a survey of music projects with unique temporal approaches | Part 3 of a series on music, time and long-term thinking in Long Now, March 2019. 

— Keeping Good Time for 10,000 Years, on the equation of time | Long Now, December 2018.

— Lightning, Stars and Space: Art That Leaves the Gallery Behind (editor), on Land Artists Donald Judd, Charles Ross, and Walter De Maria | Part 2 of a series on Land Art in the American West in Long Now, July 2018.

— The Role of Art in Addressing Climate Change, an interview with Jose Luis de Vicente on the After the End of the World exhibition on climate change | Long Now, May 2018.

— Seeing the Whole Earth from Space Changed Everything, on images of earth and the overview effect | Long Now, May 2018.

— This is How You Perform a Piece of Music 1,000 Years Long (editor), on the music of John Cage and Jem Finer | Part 2 of a series on music, time, and long-term thinking in Long Now, April 2018.

— Humans Have Loved GIFs since the Stone Age, on examples of sequential animation and graphic narrative in Paleolithic cave paintings | Long Now, March 2018.

— James Turrell, Earthworks, and Monuments of Deep Time (editor), on early American Land Artists | Part 1 of a series on Land Art in the American West in Long Now, March 2018.

— How Warren Buffett Won His Multi-Million Dollar Long Bet, on Warren Buffet’s bet against active investors | Long Now, February 2018.

— Did the Urge to Worship Lead to Civilization, on Gobekli Tepe and technological advances in archaeology | Long Now, February 2018.

— The Largest Early World Map is Unveiled for the First Time, on the digitization of Urbano Monte’s planisphere | Long Now, January 2018.

— Brian Eno Expands the Vocabulary of Human Feeling (editor), a profile of the inventor of ambient music | Part 1 of a series on music, time, and long-term thinking in Long Now, November 2017.

— What Books Would You Choose to Restart Civilization?, on projects that aim to democratize human knowledge | Long Now, June 2017.

— You Are Not the Center of the Universe, a meditation on orreries and the Copernican Revolution | Long Now, April 2017.

— The Other 10,000 Year Project, on long-term thinking and the nuclear waste problem | Long Now, March 2017.

— The 10,000 Year Genealogy of Myths, on new evidence about the transmission of myths through cultures over time | Long Now, February 2017.