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Here's what I published on Saturday, February 28, 2026: More Provo Street Photography A fun morning wandering downtown Provo with some great people. 💬 Comment on this post If someone forwarded you this email, you can subscribe here

Here's what I published on Wednesday, February 4, 2026: If AI companies were consumer tech from a decade ago Late night noodling, but even in the light of day this still feels right to me. If we mapped current #AI companies to consumer tech from the 2010s: Anthropic

Here's what I published on Tuesday, January 20, 2026: Why Love-Work Is Different Than Hate-Work A great read, and not just because of how deeply I felt the distinction between love-work and hate-work. I also really enjoyed how Horton described research eras in psychology.

Here's what I published on Monday, January 19, 2026: AI verifiability, but compared to what? Much of the advice around using AI is that if you use it, then you need to verify what it produces. This is presently good advice. But I'm doubtful it will

Here's what I published on Tuesday, January 6, 2026: Professors Are Conservative, Actually Politically, academics are much more liberal than the average person. But Paul Bloom makes the excellent point that, in areas related to their work, academics are actually deeply conservative. Asking a prof about AI is

Here's what I published on Monday, January 5, 2026: An amazing story of courage and empathy This is an incredible moment of courage that happened in 2023. I’d never heard about it until this article. Nathan saved dozens of lives. Nathan started to think of himself as

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

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-

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