The Snail Shell

If you pay attention, you can watch your brain shut down. (or, better metaphor, "suspend", or more appropriately "do a bunch...

You might have heard about Soylent , this drink made by a bunch of Y Combinator softwaremen who wanted to have an alternative to eating foo...

... is surprisingly easy. 1. print your design. 2. tape it to a non-corrugated cardboard. Tape a sheet of acetate (or "Dura-lar...

I got to talking with a friend about, uh, the state of the world, and she asked at one point, what's my take? At this point, it's s...

I like rakia/schnapps/slivovitz/fruit brandy. I thought it'd be fun to make some. However, turns out it's illegal . Which means...

" In California, there isn't a conflict between being a capitalist and a liberal ." "The companies here are more than ju...

It's beautiful and humble. I spent a couple days at a Buddhist center, thinking I'd get some sort of concentration or mental clarit...

I've been in Oxford with my friends Daniel and Killian for the past week. It's been pretty low key. Yesterday, for example, I read ...

I was there for the past week. Mostly for a conference (CHI 2013, which I will likely post about soon on my research blog), but also some s...

My friend Ram writes a great bit  about the weird paradox where three Americans dying is a catastrophe, but dozens of (innocent) Afghanis d...

I've noticed two very distinct feelings. One is the "expansive" feeling: "the world is out before me, I can do anything ...

I sort of missed March in terms of monthly goals. As a look back, here's how they're going now: Oct/Nov: don't snap at people....

I computed some stats. To be fair, I did a bunch of statistical hooey that went like this: I recorded a 1-5 value whenever I felt like it ...

Done with that! Spent four solid weeks paleo eating, and here's what I can say just from the ever-unreliable introspection: - it didn...

As wonderful as most of the recent months have been, I've got to say, I could trade in this past January. I don't know if it's ...

We spend a lot of time processing information, yes? It strikes me that I often want exponentially-increasing levels of information, at appr...

I've written about happiness at least a few times . I often get frustrated because "happiness" becomes a catch-all term for...

Or, "should I get a Brita?" I found the 2011 Pittsburgh Water Report . Looks like our water is better than the EPA standards in...

(or, I looked up stuff on Wikipedia to jazz up our "end of the world" conversations and party a bit) I'm in Cleveland for...

I can't say it better myself: " Cities: Rather Than Patronizing Young People, Give Them What They Ask For ." The city in ques...