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Here's what I published on Sunday, January 4, 2026: A Rare-Blood Donor Saved Millions of Lives Australia's most prolific blood and plasma donor, James Harrison, has died at age 88. Known as the "Man with the Golden Arm," Harrison is credited with saving the

Here's what I published on Saturday, January 3, 2026: Some Provo Street Photography Since my focus has been learning landscape photography, I've never really done any street shooting. Thanks to a kind invitation, I had a chance to head downtown and try my hand at it.

Here's what I published on Saturday, December 27, 2025: My Ten Favorite Photos of the Year This is the year I made landscape photography an official hobby rather than just a thing I enjoyed doing with my iPhone. All of these photos were shot on a Fujifilm X-T5.

Here's what I published on Thursday, December 18, 2025: Adversarial vs. Cooperative Teaching Whatever your opinion of AI, I found this idea of teaching being either adversarial or cooperative to be really interesting. I definitely find myself using both perspectives depending on the situation (and the student). I’

Here's what I published on Wednesday, December 17, 2025: 2025’s biggest impacts—for better or for worse This is absolutely fascinating and I’ve already spent too much time on this page when I should be finishing grades. All the biggest scientific or technological changes of 2025,

Here's what I published on Tuesday, December 16, 2025: Machine learning textbook from major publisher has hallucinated sources I don’t think I can adequately stress how bad this is for a publisher as big as Springer to screw up this badly. A new textbook of theirs had

Here's what I published on Monday, December 15, 2025: Questions Are Velcro The late Harvard business professor Clayton Christensen is famous for quite a few things, most notably, the Innovators Dilemma, and How Will You Measure Your Life?. I just want to add one more great idea to

Here's what I published on Wednesday, December 10, 2025: AI is a magnifier, which is wonderful and terrible “Money doesn’t make you into a different person; it just makes you more of who you already are.” Not a semester goes by where I miss the chance to

Here's what I published on Saturday, December 6, 2025: After historic declines, global poverty may increase after 2030 The global reductions in poverty over the last 50 years have been unprecedented, bordering on miraculous. But the rapid and easy gains in wellbeing might be behind us. Based on

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

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

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