Time is Weird in 2020
Time is weird in 2020, wouldn't you agree? I've been thinking a lot lately about a practice I learned from my friend, Jamie Zigelbaum, when we
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Freediving into a Spreadsheet
Dan Bricklin's professors at the Harvard Business School thought he was wasting his time creating an electronic substitute for the paper ledgers he and his classmates were using
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Happy Upgrade Day
Happy Upgrade Day. You are on an operating table, immobilized, but fully awake. You glance sideways and see the brain implant in a sterile package marked with the Neuralink logo.
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Study With Us
I recently joined a global study group. I spend so many hours with these people during the pandemic that I now call them my friends. They have no idea that
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Touching a Heartbeat
I took the Apple Watch for a long walk last weekend. It did something unexpected and unattractive. I'm left wondering if I have any place for it in
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Hello, World
Let's talk about source code. Here's a program. Right now, your instinct is to immediately delete this newsletter, thinking you've made a terrible decision.
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Weeknotes #2237 - The World in Fuzzy Pixels
This week felt covered by a bit of a fog. Let's see if I can cut through it a bit. * I put in some back-end work on this
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The Global Derealization
This post contains disturbing images, references to traumatic events, and non-medical discussion of anxiety disorder. On August 4, 2020, at 6 PM (GMT+3), a massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon,
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Weeknotes #2236 - Staying Put
MIT is, rightfully, addressing physical campus access with a considered and careful approach. Most staff members are unable to return to our campus. People authorized to be onsite need to
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Weeknotes #2235 - Meeting Fatiguing
Cranking out this week's notes in rapid fashion and keeping it especially short and sweet because: 1. I don't believe anybody is actually reading these. 2.
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Weeknotes #2234 - Smashing things together
Worlds Colliding We're kicking off a new round of galleries for our upcoming transition to Kendall square. I'm finding myself playing catchup on some new topics
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Weeknotes #2233 - Marking Time
* I skipped last week's weeknotes because last Friday, I was on Day 2 of a long 5-day weekend to clear the head and not think too hard about
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