Nobody Can Draw a Bicycle
A spider, a fake FBI town, and a bicycle built for AI.
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I Built a Robot to Read My Mind and Believed It Anyway.
I trusted a tool I made to tell me what mattered, until it disagreed with itself over a single misplaced space. A field guide to the confident outputs worth checking twice.
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I was looking for a Nigel I could download
I wanted Nigel from Devil Wears Prada to walk into my bedroom. What showed up was a pile of apps and a piece of cardboard.
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A Meteor Fell and I Couldn't Find the Crowd
A meteor boom over Boston, a real-time town square that had quietly fragmented into a hundred private instruments, and why the fastest civic response in 2026 is to build the answer instead of post it. Plus Watch Duty, a 48-hour moving model, and someone in a blueberry-muffin costume.
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The Card Apple Would Rather You Not Use
Why digital-first wallets still mail you a piece of metal.
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The Pocket Test
A field guide for naming what your phone is actually doing on a walk. Five answers, one honest question.
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Some apps want you to go outside.
On the small genre of software that uses the screen as a door, not a wall.
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My calendar lied to me, and I have only myself to blame
A small operational fire, followed by the four-jobs question I now ask every tool in my stack. Plus: pilot logbooks, an inaccurate-planning study from UCL, and Andy Matuschak on bending software around real life.
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Austin, TX: Progress & Nostalgia
I'm in Austin over the 4th of July weekend to visit family. Every time I come back to Texas I have incredibly mixed feelings.
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100 Days and a Restart
Today we launched a new MIT Museum website, and started our 100 day countdown to the opening of the Museum in its new building at Kendall.
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That New Computer Smell
Do you remember the way your first computer smelled?
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Anything but NFTs
So I was tempted to make this week’s newsletter about NFTs.
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The Grief Multiplier and Gratitude
Personal reflections on loss, grief, and finding gratitude during the COVID-19 pandemic after losing a brother.
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Happy New Year? If you say so.
I regret my jokes at the end of last year about how “it couldn’t get any worse than 2020.” At the very least, to the extent that this country is relevant to the rest of the world anymore, we have a lot of explaining to do in 2021 and beyond.
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Patience
There's something about December that sends me into a frenzy of trying to wrap up projects...
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