They let just anyone put stuff on the Internet. (Including me.)
Here's what I published on Friday, November 14, 2025: Cheating Is Expensive for Everyone Apropos to my post from last week on AI and Universities, here’s Yascha Mounk on the topic, noting the terrible incentives involved. If (1) AI is treated as cheating, which it should be
AI-assisted cheating being so easy to do means the normal mechanisms for dealing with cheating get completely swamped.
Here's what I published on Wednesday, November 12, 2025: Unique, Quality Branding Is Hard Something I’ve never really posted or blogged about ever before is the tech space, but if you looked at my RSS feeds you‘d see more tech news than anything else. It’s
Something I’ve never really posted or blogged about ever before is the tech space, but if you looked at my RSS feeds you‘d see more tech news than anything else. It’s a long-running hobby. In the consumer tech space, it’s really hard to establish a brand
Here's what I published on Monday, November 10, 2025: Watch this 6.5 year-old’s amazing reverse memory trick This is incredible. 💬 Comment on this post Cynicism Isn’t Intelligence Most of us valorize people who don’t like people. But it turns out cynicism is not a
This is incredible.
Most of us valorize people who don’t like people. But it turns out cynicism is not a sign of wisdom, and more often it’s the opposite. In studies of over 200,000 individuals across thirty nations, cynics scored less well on tasks that measure cognitive ability, problem-solving, and
Here's what I published on Sunday, November 9, 2025: If someone forwarded you this email, you can subscribe
Here's what I published on Saturday, November 8, 2025: Orick, CA - October 14, 2025 This was a magical day. Here's one morning and two evening photos from Orick, CA. 💬 Comment on this post The difference between “accomplished” and “good” We use “good” in English to
Here's what I published from Sunday, November 2, 2025 to Saturday, November 8, 2025: Orick, CA - October 14, 2025 This was a magical day. Here's one morning and two evening photos from Orick, CA. 💬 Comment on this post The difference between “accomplished” and “good” We
This was a magical day. Here's one morning and two evening photos from Orick, CA.
Imagine being remembered both for DNA’s discovery and for being an intolerant, intolerable person.