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I canceled my book deal
I've always wanted to write a book, and I was close, but not this time.
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Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
A less romantic truth is that aesthetic standards rarely travel alone; power tends to follow in their wake. An episode at the U.S. State Department this month makes exactly this point.
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The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves
3D printing and miniatures as a case study in how tech misses what users actually want
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Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
A Christmas Eve journey. Deutsche Bahn. 35 kilometers.
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My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award (blog)
Welcome to the award show everyone! Hosted by your favourite bee... Bee! 🥳 I wanted to summarise the best tools etc out there in 2025, and what better way then to put on a fake award show! And like all true award shows and Christmas themed events, let's get into
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Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain
My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain
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If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app
There's a quirk in the iPhone Camera app that can drive a security conscious iPhone owner crazy: if you touch your finger on the Camera app ...
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Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…
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How we lost communication to entertainment
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
The worst toy is one with many pieces that my kids dump on the ground and then play with for only 2 minutes.
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A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash
WHEREAS , the em-dash (—) has long served as the elegant scaffolding of the English sentence, providing the necessary breadth for parenthetical thought, sudden turns of phrase, and rhythmic pause;
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I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13
It turns out I've always done weird things to my laptops.
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Maybe the default settings are too high
I’ve been reading Lord of the Rings for two months and I’m just at the end of the first part. It’s not because I’m not enjoying it. It’s one of the most ...
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How I Left YouTube
What was the road like when I left?
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Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019)
Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for.
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I'm returning my Framework 16
My current laptop is an aging X1 Carbon generation 7, purchased some time in mid 2019. A few months ago a few keys of the keyboard stopped working, specifically the 5, 6, - , = and Delete keys. Sometimes I can get it working again by mashing one of them for a while, but it's not consistent. Given my past experiences…
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Don't Become the Machine
I was recently recommended a YouTube video with the following title: Only a slave quantifies its existence through productivity '''''',,,,,,,,,,,'''''....
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The best things and stuff of 2025
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2025. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
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Paperbacks and TikTok
In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Books, a line of diminutive volumes (measuring 4 by 6 ... Read more
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I know you didn't write this
Exploring the ethics and productivity impacts of undisclosed AI-generated content in professional work, and why verification overhead is now the hidden cost of AI adoption.
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One year of keeping a tada list
Sometimes called a to-done list.
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If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)
A client once responded to one of my questions by saying, "Oh Greg, I am too busy living to think about life!” His off-the-cuff comment named a trap al ...
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A year of vibes
A personal recap of 2025 and a year of a new style of engineering.
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Your inbox is a bandit problem
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
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I wish people were more public
On sharing more of yourself.
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You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
“Those who have a ‘Why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘How’.” ― Viktor Frankl quoting Friedrich Nietzsche, Man’s Search for Meaning Let me guess: Viktor Frankl calls this feeling the “existential vacuum” in his famous book Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl was a psychologist who survived the Holocaust, and in this…
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Three ways to solve problems
Deciding not to solve a problem, or solving a different one, can also be a viable solution.
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Coarse is better
Make AI weird again.
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Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
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Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?
I'm still a believer in the promise of Web 2.0. The idea that giving people a curated space to chat produces tiny sparks of magic. My wife Liz and I have been running the OpenBenches project for about 8 years - it's a crowd-sourced repository of memorial benches. People take a geotagged photo of a bench's plaque…