Writing
Research essays and critical writing from my undergrad that I really enjoyed working on and still give me a good point of reflection.
Dear GO Train
A letter to the commuter train that carried an immigrant kid to a Raptors game and, years later, to his own job downtown.
Rethinking FIFA International Soccer (1993) as a Classic
Why a game with a $100,000 budget deserves classic status, argued through what it started rather than how it played.
Intellectual Property Rights: Profitization of Knowledge in Canada
How copyright law and weak open access policy let publishers profit from research the public already paid for, plus the reforms that would fix it.
The Repairability and Politics of Infrastructure
On Langdon Winner and Steven Jackson, and what a closed TTC line and an unrepairable phone have in common.
Searle's Chinese Room Argument and Functionalism
Taking the Systems Reply seriously: why the room understands Chinese even if the person inside it doesn't.
Analyzing Work Collaboration Software
Zoom and Slack sold freedom from the office. What they actually built was a circuit that never turns off.
Close Playing Analysis: Split-Screen Multiplayer in Halo
Four strangers on one couch, one Xbox controller each, and an argument for why local co-op built community that online play never could.