for the ninth year, Laura E. Hall's popup daily newsletter of spooky stuff is posting every day of October # | Continue reading
Maritime shipping looks strange through climate eyes. In a sense, it’s exceptionally efficient, or, in jargon, low-intensity. To think about this dimensionally, the basic idea of shipping things ... | Continue reading
When he was 24 years-old, Irving Berlin went from writing lyrics on napkins, and spilling soup onto people’s laps, to being tagged a revolutionary almost overnight. A singing waiter and an amateu... | Continue reading
Public staircases are a guilty pleasure of mine. There's one that I use often, a south-facing set of steps that links a pedestrian bridge over the river to our local greenmarket. It's a lovely, sun... | Continue reading
About 12 years ago, despite living in Los Angeles, I decided to start seeing more theater in New York City. (Yes, there is also theater in LA; no, it’s not the same.) Up until then, I had seen NY... | Continue reading
As anticipated, we just had a bumper quarter in Q2: just shy of *€5.0B was raised by 46 new funds*. | Continue reading
Recently I was studying the list of digital formats recommended
🎙 Hest The Podcast 🦠 Programming Systems 🔭 Programmable Spaces 👔 Standard Nodes & Wires | Continue reading
⌚ Open Weareable Sensing 💡 How Deep is Mathland 🎨 Software Designers 🧠 Nintendo's Creative Tools | Continue reading
It isn’t quite accurate to say that I “decided” to do NaNoWriMo this year, because I so thoroughly believed that accomplishing it was impossible. I admitted to no one—hardly to myself—tha... | Continue reading
A couple weeks ago, a customer reported that my fonts didn’t work in Microsoft Office. I looked up his order. He had bought the fonts in 2015. I asked: have they not worked for five years? Oh no,... | Continue reading
"Done!" starts the bartender, "the AC is now off." | Continue reading
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This Stock Talk is going to be a bit of an experiment; instead of going over market trends, I want to discuss a new experiment I'm working on; finding companies the market believes are most likely to ... | Continue reading
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This newsletter has always been about the future. Now the future has arrived. The novel coronavirus is a bright light shining on 2020, this world, our times. The real features of the economy, geopolit... | Continue reading
It's taken me years to understand the old startup mantra of: "Make something people want." It's simple. However, like most simple things, it's not necessarily easy. | Continue reading
Sometimes I wonder why people don't share more of their expertise online. And then I try to do it myself, and half the time I'm wondering: "Why would anyone care?" | Continue reading
I crave a feeling of satisfaction from my work. I also feel like I'll never get it. | Continue reading
I don't like annual reviews. I love the *idea* of them. I can reflect on my past year, the highs and lows, wins and losses, and make some plans for the next year. It sounds great. In practice, it f... | Continue reading
I simultaneously think $40k for a great deck is a steal, and that if you need someone else to make it for you then you're probably screwed.
“Existence in a society that has become a system finds the senses useless precisely because of the very instruments designed for their extension. One is prevented from touching and embracing reality... | Continue reading
“To the extent that propaganda is based on current news, it cannot permit time for thought or reflection. A man caught up in the news must remain on the surface of the events; he is carried along in... | Continue reading
“Those who read the press of their group and listen to the radio of their group are constantly reinforced in their allegiance. They learn more and more that their group is right, that its actions ar... | Continue reading
I'm starting a newsletter to send updates on my CAD project, Cuttle. This first entry will be significantly longer than future updates since I'll be introducing and contextualizing the project. | Continue reading
"I believe that this crisis is rooted in a major twofold experiment which has failed, and I claim that the resolution of the crisis begins with a recognition of the failure. For a hundred years we hav... | Continue reading
"Contemporary man ... attempts to create the world in his image, to build a totally man-made environment, and then discovers that he can do so only on the condition of constantly remaking himself to f... | Continue reading
"In a society caught up in the race for the better, limits on change are experienced as a threat. The commitments to the better at any cost makes the good impossible at all costs. Failure to renew the... | Continue reading
A long time ago, when computing was a big boring business, something unexpected happened. Cheap microprocessors, intended for teletypes and stop-lights, were pressed into service as *personal computer... | Continue reading
Consider this a special edition of* The Convivial Society*. | Continue reading
"Learned and leisurely hospitality is the only antidote to the stance of deadly cleverness that is acquired in the professional pursuit of objectively secured knowledge. I remain certain that the ques... | Continue reading
"Hospitality was a condition consequent on a good society in politics, *politaea*, and by now might be the starting point of *politaea*, of politics. But this is difficult because hospitality requires... | Continue reading
Because I live in a small farming town, there's a pool of people who are prepared to work hourly doing repetitive tasks. I can pay them significantly more than their other jobs, and in exchange I avoi... | Continue reading
My beloved grandmother passed away last night, peacefully in her sleep. She had a stroke a few years ago and spent the last three years happy, but without being able to form significant new memories. | Continue reading
It's been a minute since my last message. A lot has happened - personally & professionally - in the last 6+ months since coming back from Hajj (perhaps a sign of purification after the sacred pilgrima... | Continue reading
"However, beside these technical and purposeful effects, for which the alphabet can be used as a tool, its mere existence within a society also says something to the members of society, something whic... | Continue reading
"Faulty technology can render the environment uninhabitable. Radical monopoly can force the demand for affluence to the point of paralyzing the ability to work. Overprogramming can transform the world... | Continue reading
"At present people tend to relinquish the task of envisaging the future to a professional élite. They transfer power to politicians who promise to build up the machinery to deliver this future. They ... | Continue reading
The I2CDriver campaign
In the days leading up to the new year, I saw a lot of myth, religion, and spirituality on the twitter timeline. It seems that for you, like me, myth is on the mind at the end of the year. It is impos... | Continue reading
This is long, for some definitions of long, but there is a truly excellent recipe for soup at the end of it, so your investment will pay off handsomely. Actually, if you must know, I promised myself I... | Continue reading
Hello friends! 😄 In this email I'll be describing my work on a research programming environment, a mix between a code editor, a REPL, and a debugger, which I'm naturally calling REPLugger. | Continue reading
A few years ago, when our kids were young, we started a ridiculous family tradition of "Summer Christmas". One of the rules of this invented holiday is that we all get to self-gift something we'd like... | Continue reading
Hello from a camp chair outside of Glacier Park, where I'm writing this newsletter without internet. Before you yell at me to get off my computer and enjoy the outdoors, I'll tell you that periodicall... | Continue reading