What Does Depression Feel Like?

Expression Beyond Langue vs. Parole
Life
Depression
Any time I even think about vocalizing (or even worse, writing down) something “personal”, a shrill, persistent voice in my head begins screaming:
Nov 19, 2024
Jeff Jacobs

The Skycycle Blues

Art
Poetry
In another installation of, Jeff posting things on here in order to avoid ranting at friends over WhatsApp… I’m geeking over how incredible B. Dolan’s poems are. In my last…
Jul 2, 2024
Jeff Jacobs

Starting at the Finish Line

Lives of Quiet Desperation in the US Suburbs
Life
Finding My Own Voice
This is a strange post to try and write. There’s a passage in a Dave Eggers book I re-read recently (You Shall Know Our Velocity!), where the main character describes a…
May 16, 2024
Jeff Jacobs

A Meaningful Passage

For Someday-Parsing
Life
Chasing the Owl of Minerva
(My sloppy attempt at translation! And embedding fonts!)
May 6, 2024
Jeff Jacobs

The NFL Has Become (Slightly) More Boring Over Time

Sports
Entropy
Data Science
As a theme that will reappear across several of these posts, we’ll see that when we try to translate the interpretive idea of “interestingness” into a measurable quantity, en…
Dec 14, 2023
Jeff Jacobs

Visualizing Segregation in DC

Urban Studies
GIS
Segregation
Inequality
About ten years ago, Pew Research released an incredible set of maps visualizing how extreme segregation is in DC, race-wise as well as socioeconomic. A screenshot from this…
Nov 27, 2023
Jeff Jacobs
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