Gartner analyst. Good engineer, bad entrepreneur. Once and future professor. But Twitter’s for the important stuff: literature, philosophy, college football.
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13 Jul 2015
"I am trying to be one of those people who write because they have made progress, and who make progress by writing." --St. Augustine
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Jun 1
You’ll never guess what my next talk is about. Come see me in Grand Ballroom 3 at 4:15.
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19 Oct 2025
Doing a bit of performative reading—in an airport lounge, no less—ahead of the reading group with @AnaKrivolapova and @moonandmouth next week.
ALT Cover of Moravagine by Blaise Cendrarz
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8 Nov 2025
The weird vocabulary is integral to the vibe. The book is studded with (pseudo-)scientific terms because La Science is trying to interpret everything through the lens of scientific determinism, and Moravagine is trying to be obscure and oracular, which La Science eats up.
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We finally get to the author self-insert. Well, there’s a fictional character named Blaise Cendrars, not to be confused with the author of the book Blaise Cendrars. Which is, in fact, a pseudonym. I forget what level of irony we’re on.
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OK but she’s right though
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Virginia Woolf’s diary entries on James Joyce’s Ulysses:
“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. …
I finished ‘Ulysses’ and think it is a misfire. Genius it has, I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense. A first-rate writer, I mean, respects writing too much to be tricky; startling; doing stunts.”
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P.A.C. Delory retweeted
Some of you are suffering because you’ve read a million emails but not a single poem.
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People here are doubting that Reagan read Ibn Khaldun, but I used to assign the Muqaddimah to community college Ethics 101 classes. It’s not some obscure lost work. I promise it was widely studied as recently as 20 years ago. Academic standards used to be much higher, kids.
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It's common (?) knowledge that president Reagan cited Ibn Khaldun for his tax policies, but what I didn't know is that the NYTimes (2 Oct 1981 A26) contacted Franz Rosenthal and asked him if Reagan understood him correctly. Apparently Prof. Rosenthal confirmed that he did!
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Jan 25
Meanwhile in New England, every 16-year-old with a learner’s permit is out doing this right now with dad in the passenger seat offering tips. Only one way to learn how to handle a car in the snow.
For those that moved to the South, please say the following statement 25 times — “We DO NOT call the cops on kids doing donuts in empty parking lots.”
We don’t do that. You don’t do that. Thank you.
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Jan 23
“They claim they never received the fax, so I’m going to the post office to send it registered mail” is a sentence I spoke out loud, today, in the year of our Lord 2026.
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Jan 15
Boston College basketball is so bad we’ve even fallen behind other schools in areas we’ve traditionally dominated: point shaving, match fixing, ties to organized crime, etc.
Jan 15
Schools included in the indictment: Nicholls State, Tulane, Northwestern State, St. Louis, La Salle, Fordham, DePaul, Robert Morris, Southern Miss, North Carolina A&T, Kennesaw State, Coppin State, New Orleans, Abilene Christian, Eastern Michigan and Alabama State.
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On display at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. At least we’ll always have @TheMobMuseum
ALT A display at The Mob Museum in Las Vegas explaining the point shaving scandal of 1978-1979, featuring pennants from Boston College, CCNY, and Arizona State.
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22 Dec 2025
Pope Paul III banned chattel slavery in 1537, more than 300 years before the US Civil War. Leaving religious issues aside, if you don’t understand this, you don’t understand the history of the US.
22 Dec 2025
Catholic Church supported slave trade.
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For example: Texas seceded from Mexico in 1836 in large part because the plantation owners wanted slaves to work their cotton fields, and slavery was illegal in Catholic Mexico.
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12 Dec 2025
Always hurts a bit when computer scientists view philosophy as a separate field they can laugh at rather than as a rich source of foundational work on formal languages and logic - a field full of potential collaborators.
12 Dec 2025
Something I told 13 yo: Many if not most philosophical controversies are artifacts of trying to using natural language at a higher resolution than it will support.
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9 Dec 2025
T-minus 10 minutes till #GartnerIO Vegas. Still seats available for the keynote but you’re gonna have to sit up front.
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