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Work Harder, Not Smarter I gave the assistant that runs my calendar the power to refuse me until I name a reason. Turns out the obstacle is the feature: learning science, behavioral economics, and HCI all drew the same line between friction that works for you and friction that works on you.

Jul 16

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It's Not the Fake, It's the Lie A band with no humans in it, an actress who doesn't exist, a five-star write-up sitting on a hundred food-poisoning complaints. The machine isn't the scandal. The unlabeled swap is.

Jul 9

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The Log Is Fake I lost twenty minutes to a website that lets you chop firewood, and it handed me something my work keeps withholding: a finished pile.

Jul 2

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Nobody Can Draw a Bicycle A spider, a fake FBI town, and a bicycle built for AI.

Jun 25

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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.

Jun 18

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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.

Jun 11

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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.

Jun 4

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The Card Apple Would Rather You Not Use Why digital-first wallets still mail you a piece of metal.

May 28

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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.

May 21

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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.

May 14

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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.

May 7

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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.

Jul 1

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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.

Jun 24

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That New Computer Smell Do you remember the way your first computer smelled?

Apr 25

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Anything but NFTs So I was tempted to make this week’s newsletter about NFTs.

Mar 26