Your least intelligent follower
Joined November 2008
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5 May 2025
We found the title of a scroll for the first time!
This cylinder of charcoal turns out to be "On Vices, Book 1" by Philodemus
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27 Apr 2025
As always, tech can have remarkable capabilities and yet obvious gaps
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23 Jan 2022
When I ask why friendship and marriage are declining in America
People from poor countries: Americans are too rich. They don't have to form bonds with others to survive.
People from rich countries: Americans are too poor. They need money to have a social life.
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28 May 2019
1999: there are millions of websites all hyperlinked together
2019: there are four websites, each filled with screenshots of the other three.
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15 Dec 2018
Open source confronts its midlife crisis: dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12… ht: @adamhjk @rhatr @sogrady
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15 Nov 2018
Quiet times so here are some photos to show that it IS possible to build modern vernacular streets of beauty & intensity. These are in StAlbans via the brilliant @LookStAlbans
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14 Jan 2018
I’m increasingly of the belief that incentive design is the most important problem to work on. Humans are good at overcoming obstacles when they have reason to do so — the worst problems tend to be ones of cooperation, not technological or scientific understanding.
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16 Jan 2018
REMINDER: RSS is still a thing and is a great way to follow outlets you love.
• You don't miss stories based on social media algorithms
• You don't only see the stories your mutuals are baited by on twitter
• If you often click through, you support that outlet much more
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11 Jan 2018
Was talking recently with a friend about how hard it is to write blog posts and give talks these days. The longer you’re in the tech industry the more your opinions end up being “well it depends” and “I’m not sure”. These don’t quite make for good blog posts, hah.
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10 Feb 2017
Note: "Fake news" means stories willfully made up by people to go viral. Not stories you disagree with, & not stories that have mistakes.
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27 Jan 2017
Need to read beyond headlines. Signal-to-noise ratio should improve over time but it's tough being a news consumer (or reporter) right now.
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12 Nov 2016
On point Facebook/media observations from @timoreilly, in my opinion: medium.com/@timoreilly/media…
I added some of my own after talking to Tim.
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6 Aug 2016
There is wisdom that only comes from complete product cycles -- no amount of job hopping can provide it.
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18 Jul 2016
Great @Wonkblog history of moral panics about new trends. Our own will look just as silly washingtonpost.com/news/wonk…
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17 May 2016
Attitudes in two different industries
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"...I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all." whispersystems.org/blog/the-…
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7 May 2016
@seanjonesqc made me think of this great piece by Tim Harford > Delusions of objectivity - FT.com ft.com/cms/s/0/f461cb70-f6c1…
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