The Snail Shell

Googlebook (ahem, "Google Plus") is out. I like it. It might actually let me quit Facebook. But it's not a toaster; I can'...

I had always figured that, since I pretty reliably drink about 150mg caffeine/day (5 cups of tea, 1.5 cups of coffee, or some combination, a...

Normative Heuristic Microethic #3. I'll try not to say much here, because Sebastian Deterding says it better . Flip through the entire...

or, Normative Heuristic Microethic #2. And dear family: I'm allowed to swear on the internet if I'm just copying someone else's ...

Or, "normative heuristic microethics, part 1." You can skip the next paragraph if you want. I'm searching for something. I t...

And I don't like UPS. If you send me a package via UPS, here is what will happen: I won't be here, because I don't stay in my ...

So I did the no-grains experiment a couple times , and I generally found that eating no grains made my stomach feel a little better. After ...

(although a well-researched post about the effects of coffee on attention would be really interesting. Someone go write that.) How much is...

It's terrible marketing , and it's also all of the challenges in my life right now. Doubt : meditation. I was all "why have I...

Contradiction 1: it's better to be mindful of what you're doing, but  the way to adopt a better behavior is to automate it . Inter...

It's a nice place to walk around. I like the Mission, both hipster-Mission (16th and Valencia) and Hispanic-Mission (24th). (is it okay ...

I'm 25. That means I've lived 25 years. Hah! I've still got my piece on the game board of life, and it's doing pretty all ri...

Thanks to the Internet, we all know all the facts. When you learn something, you're just decreasing the lookup time. Sometimes this is...

Martin Seligman is partially responsible for everyone talking about "happiness" today. But he's also sick of people just hand-...

I just passed my motorcycle test. I wish I had asked about statistics on motorcycle safety during the class. I found this  and this  and thi...

Just got back from Vancouver and CHI, the biggest human-computer interaction conference. My research blog has a list of some papers I found ...

Well, I wanted to try it again, so I went for the last week and a half, almost 2 weeks, without eating grains. Got a bit more data. Plus I...

I thought that bit was just the best few sentences I'd heard in a long while. But it's stuck with me, digging up an old question I s...

"You must write and I must be a guide. It is our svaha, our nature. Perhaps next time we will be luckier, less condemned to our differe...

It's not that the things I'm doing are special, but the experience of doing them just feels relatively wonderful. I slept like an i...