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Here's what I published from Sunday, February 8, 2026 to Saturday, February 14, 2026: If someone forwarded you this email, you can subscribe here

Here's what I published from Sunday, February 1, 2026 to Saturday, February 7, 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

Here's what I published from Sunday, January 25, 2026 to Saturday, January 31, 2026: If someone forwarded you this email, you can subscribe here

Here's what I published from Sunday, January 18, 2026 to Saturday, January 24, 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

Here's what I published from Sunday, January 11, 2026 to Saturday, January 17, 2026: If someone forwarded you this email, you can subscribe here

Here's what I published from Sunday, January 4, 2026 to Saturday, January 10, 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

Here's what I published from Sunday, December 28, 2025 to 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

Here's what I published from Sunday, December 21, 2025 to 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

Here's what I published from Sunday, December 14, 2025 to Saturday, December 20, 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

Here's what I published from Sunday, December 7, 2025 to Saturday, December 13, 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

Here's what I published from Sunday, November 30, 2025 to 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

Here's what I published from Sunday, November 23, 2025 to Saturday, November 29, 2025: If someone forwarded you this email, you can subscribe here