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Recently I found myself in a waiting room, and while there, waiting, it occurred to me that someone should write an essay on waiting rooms. Since I always have a notebook at hand, I took some notes, and here they are, for anyone who...
Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to the SigmaWest science camp and then STOC,...
Nothing works... (comme d'hab), Small parcels to the EU, Earth is a death world.
It’s a new month (yikes) so it’s time for another fresh batch of links. A varied mix of fun stuff this time around.Now that your newsletter is AI-generated, I’ve UnsubscribedThe title kind of says it all for this one.Datatype — variable...
I saw this going viral, Democrats rail against corruption after Trump financial disclosure: Democrats are accusing President Trump of improperly profiting from his and his family’s cryptocurrency ventures after he reported more than $1...
“Effective today, June 30, 2026 at 12:00 PM, all Forest Service lands, roads, and trails within the Monticello Ranger District of the Manti-La Sal National Forest (San Juan County, Utah) are temporarily closed due to the Babylon Fire. “...
Well it's more like six and a half really - with everything going on these last few months, my half bearthday went whizzing past. But we're close enough still, so let's see how things are going. The most important thing is that I'm still...
Everything looked good for a trip to the shallow beach, an off shore breeze and a late evening high tide and as I hadn’t been there for a while, I couldn’t resist. My target fish tonight would be Rays, for some reason I don’t catch many...
Yankee Candles Levels of Abstraction optional.is/required/…
“Five years ago, people bragged about waking up at 5am, doing cold plunges, having inbox zero, and working while endlessly Peletoning. Now it’s all about having 17 agents, not opening email, and AI running your business. It’s the exact...
It’s time for a Q2 progress review on Nic’s (Dragon Rambles) Law of Fives reading bingo challenge! I’ve now read 29 books for this challenge, with most of them counting… The post Q2 2026 Law of Five Reading Bingo Progress appeared first...
TL;DR - I built my own kanban and you can play with it. About two years ago I wrote about how I use 3x5 index cards for productivity. It was a lot of words about basically saying I use a little paper to write down a daily todo list and...
Read the full post at - Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber I have an incredible relationship with my own siblings. They are the one people who have been witnesses to my entire life — the whole crazy ride thing — and that...
Finished The Hunger Games (again). I forgot just how good that book is written. feeling kind of empty now (as always after finishing a book) and a little unsure about when to start reading Catching Fire
I have a question. We have a groundhog. That is my question. At first we found it charming and cute. Groundhogs ARE so cute. They’re so fat and sleek and waddley! And our yard has foxes and raccoons and songbirds and squirrels and...