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📸 Boards of Canada (and other photos).
For pride month, straight critic Ben Miller takes a look back at a gay film he otherwise would have never seen. Much of the experience of taking in film is seeing yourself in the characters and situations. Part of why I wanted to write...
Just a reminder that my “Notes on leaders…” post is a living document that may have been updated since you last checked it out.
Playing with search engines, I asked ChatGPT to roast me.
Looking forward to getting to Amsterdam tomorrow morning. Can’t wait to meet people for the next three days. Are you there? Reply via Email
In 1934, eight-year-old Helen Priestly sets out from her home in Aberdeen, Scotland, and is never seen alive again.
I know we’ve all done it, lying there stressed about things. Work stuff, decisions, whatever it may be. I also know I’m not alone in going to the worst case...
Anika Nilles is such a badass .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute;...
In “The rise of the lock-in guy,” I discuss the phenomenon of people who are smart, but this is not evident until later in life, when special circumstances align. It’s not the same as unrecognized genius. Such genius is apparent to...
“The Ultimate Fight ring had not yet been erected on the White House lawn.” The first line of the survey I did for Art in America of museums’ America 250 shows already locks it into a slightly less bleak past, April, when this stupid UFC...
Due tomorrow (June 10): Enter a contest for Alexandre Andorra’s interview of Aki, Richard, and Andrew about their new book Bayesian Workflow. I hope folks ask about evaluating MRP models. We’ve seen: Individual-level Loss(y_i, yhat_i)...
On sleepmaxxing, beef-only diets, political hysteria, and the lost art of being reasonable