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A review of Cool Gray City of Love

by David Sasaki | May 11, 2020 | Book Review, English

Call it historical schadenfreude: I’ve been greatly comforted over the past couple of months by reading historical accounts of just how much worse things used to be a hundred years ago.

Growing Up With Dave Eggers

by David Sasaki | Jun 16, 2018 | Book Review, English

As he travels around the country, Eggers must see a country with total freedom, but lacking in direction and meaning. How do we create meaning for ourselves in a world that presents us with few challenges and offers us few opportunities?

[Review] Citizenville

by David Sasaki | Mar 26, 2013 | Book Review, English, Open Government

If you’re willing to wade through the predictable, tired applause lines of the past few years of TED talks, then Citizenville offers readers an interesting glimpse of some of the obstacles that stand in the way of bringing innovation to government.

[The Mission] Dia de los Muertos and Fixed Gear Bikes

by David Sasaki | Nov 12, 2007 | English

Itzpapalotl on Dia de los Muertos in San Francisco’s dirty-hipster neighborhood, the Mission. (The translation and re-conjugation of verbs is my own doing.) The Day of the Dead, in my neighborhood, is practically the only day in which being Mexican is cool; just...

[Announcement] Seeking Bay Area Net Tuesday Love

by David Sasaki | Nov 6, 2007 | English, Presentation, Rising Voices

To all and any people who read this blog from either this side or that side of the Bay, I’ll be the opening act next Tuesday for the Notorious G.U.N. … N. (AKA Gunner) who will be facilitating a workshop on software for non-profits. Here’s the blurb:...

Mi Mes de las Mariposas

by David Sasaki | Aug 13, 2006 | English

Years ago, three of them, I was in a small Mexican village by a lake and a dam where mustachioed fathers in sombreros park their trucks at the gate and silently follow their exhilarated children down the grassy path to the fishing hole. I was there for a month and a...