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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Choose Your Own Adventure
Exploring the branching narratives of CYOA books through data visualization and what they teach us about choice.
Freediving into a Spreadsheet
How spreadsheets became cultural spaces for art, activism, and social action beyond business calculations.
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 about how this…
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…
That New Computer Smell
Do you remember the way your first computer smelled?
Anything but NFTs
Thank you for all the outpouring of kind words for my newsletter last week. It was a huge catharsis to write it, and I was so touched that…
Happy New Year? If you say so.
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Patience
There's something about December that sends me into a frenzy of trying to wrap up projects as if I'm trying to make up for not being as…
The Show Must Go On(line)
I have a confession.
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Election Day 2020
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Aboard the Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5), Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were 30,000 feet above the moon surface and rapidly descending. It was…
(Not So) Quiet, Please
Dak Prescott, the 27-year-old quarterback for NFL's Dallas Cowboys, suffered an especially gruesome ankle injury last Sunday. I don't…
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Eye to Eye
Dressed in a long-sleeved, untucked white shirt, he climbs onto a platform in front of the audience. For the next ten minutes, he says…
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I had a meeting with a colleague a few days ago, and she requested that instead of a video chat over Zoom, we should pick up the phone and…
Time is Weird in 2020
Time is weird in 2020, wouldn't you agree?
Happy Upgrade Day
Happy Upgrade Day.
Study With Us newsletter
I recently joined a global study group.
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…
Hello, World
Let's talk about source code. Here's a program.