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Outhorse Your Email Iceland trained three horses to answer your email. Google, Superhuman and 147 startups have been doing the same job without the hay, and the research on how that lands with the person reading it is not flattering.

Sep 17

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The One Star Is for the Auntie Anne's Three hikers who phoned the sheriff for directions, a tree, humans in the loop, and the worst airports in America.

Sep 10

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Sixty Years on One Hand A doctor cracked the knuckles of one hand for sixty years to test something his mother told him. Nobody else had bothered.

Sep 3

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Elaborate Ways to Not Start The green in every control room I have ever admired was a factory safety regulation, mandatory since 1948. I found that out while watching strangers give tours of their home offices, which is apparently how I do research now.

Aug 27

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The biggest screen I could find Twenty-five theaters in America can show The Odyssey the way it was made. None of them are in Massachusetts. I found that out after I bought the ticket.

Aug 20

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Chains of Snowflakes I started a hundred-day making streak. Then I spent two days researching whether streaks actually work. This went about as well as you'd expect.

Aug 13

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Oh, Look, There's Nana's Painting My niece just earned her degree in cybersecurity, so of course, I

Aug 6

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Skating on a Little Lake of Ink I'm spending the week at FAB26, the Fab Lab network&

Jul 30

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Every Fake You See Is for Real Tom Cruise promised you real jets, not CGI. You got both. "

Jul 23

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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