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Close Read: "Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei" by Eliot Weinberger

What happens when a poem more than 1300 years old is put through the grinder of translation? What happens when the original language works in a fundamentally different way than what you're translating into? You read the translator, not the original poet.

Harvard and McKinsey's Bad Statistics

A Purely Academic Exercise: what happens when a proposed investment strategy doesn't take into account all of the messy math and uncertainty of the real world?

Error States

A blog exploring how public digital infrastructure breaks.

Getting Started with a Hugo Blog & GitHub Pages

How to get started with a Hugo blog, run it locally, create content, deploy/host it for free on GitHub pages, and automate the deployment process all in one walkthrough.

Getting HTTPS to Work Properly on an AWS/Bitnami Ghost Installation

Sometimes HTTPS doesn't get configured when you install Ghost on AWS. Here's how to fix it.

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