Posts by sarcozona
Desks for short people
I am 5’3″ (160cm) and I was beginning to think that finding a desk the right height for me was impossible. I’m just half an inch shy of the median height of women in North America. You’d think this would be easy. But the industry standard for desk height – 29 inches – is bonkers. […]
Forgetting about death is the entire point of food culture.
Changing our eating habits is so fraught because eating is about far more than food. Ancient humans must have decided, once their bellies were full, that there was more to life than mere survival and staring mortality in the face. They went on to build things in which they could find distraction, comfort, recreation, and […]
Your model is wrong – and it kills people
A common response to a homeless person asking for money is “get a job.” When people say this they reveal some assumptions about the way they believe the world works. Some of the assumptions revealed by “get a job” are there are enough jobs for everyone everyone is physically and mentally capable of the available […]
Driving turns people into the worst versions of themselves
The popularity of living without a car is only weakly related to population and density (with correlations of around .2). Going car-free is much more closely related to America’s economic and political divides. via The Best and Worst U.S. Places to Live Car-Free – CityLab
Forcing millennials into shitty southern suburbs isn’t a solution to our political problems
All over the world, liberal, college-educated voters pack into cities, where they dilute their own voting power through excessive concentration [via American Migration Patterns Should Terrify the GOP – CityLab] Liberal voters aren’t diluting their own voting power. We prioritize land over population at basically all levels of voting and then heavily subsidize rural and […]
Music for the election
Migraine: a journal sample
May 19, 2018 I want to get up every day and feel okay or even well. To have energy and some expectation of getting things done. I don’t want to be disabled. I feel like life is passing me by, like I don’t do anything, like my life doesn’t matter. I say that I know […]