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Jonah Lehrer, design problem. 13 Feb 2013 | 02:30 am
OK I know. But just real quick. Because what if this were about what you could do, not about what he did (“to” you or whatever)? Step 0: consider outcomes. What do you want to do, make better, go to...
This is 35 16 Jan 2013 | 12:51 am
Married the right person, raising a great daughter together. Check. Stumbled into the right profession, getting paid to learn about fascinating things and make sense of them for other people. Check. ...
What I learned from Robert Krulwich about “Powers of Ten” 12 Oct 2012 | 07:40 pm
You’ve seen this before, or at least a knockoff of it. It’s one of my favorite films by a filmmaker who I’ve called my “patron saint.” As a piece of science communication, it’s timeless and beautiful ...
P versus NP in a nutshell (and why it’s fascinating) 4 Oct 2012 | 07:41 pm
In the past couple years, I’ve interviewed two dozen experts and written thousands of words about the famously unsolved “P versus NP” problem in mathematics. And I still don’t feel done with it. Why? ...
Partnering with Grist on my first Kickstarter project 6 Sep 2012 | 07:27 pm
Well, it’s about time: after writing a lot about Kickstarter projects for Fast Company, Wired, and New York magazine, I’m doing one myself. Well, sort of. It was Grist‘s idea to do one and they invite...
Money Stories 16 Jun 2012 | 04:01 am
Readability can’t do anything right, apparently. First they were tarred as “scumbags” for their subscriber payment model (which, originally, paywalled certain premium features and set aside 70% of the...
Facebook, Instagram, and the Acquisition as Interface 10 Apr 2012 | 05:58 am
Facebook just acquired Instagram (which, as Android user, I’d only just started to enjoy) for $1B. Given Zuckerberg’s plainly stated strategy of stripmining his “acquisitions” for their talent and lea...
“Limited,” a music video mashup about a lonely AI trying to connect 22 Feb 2012 | 01:50 am
Here’s an experimental music video I made for Jascha, remixing footage from 2001, Moon, TRON, Robocop, and WarGames: I’ve been curious for a while about whether I could re-edit images, shots and scen...
Oh great, another paean to how “hard” science is. 16 Feb 2012 | 09:19 am
There’s an essay getting some Twitter traction today from NPR’s 13.7 science blog entitled “Science: It’s really, really hard, and that’s something to celebrate.” I just read another essay by a mathem...
A thing to practice: quiet, low-concept filmmaking (and middle-class media making) 1 Feb 2012 | 02:55 pm
I openly idolize Charles and Ray Eames’s filmmaking, especially the elegant, playfully “high concept” explainers they made like Powers of Ten. I also idolize the technically innovative, brimming-with-...
