The Snail Shell

so I went to catholic high school, right. and they had a tradition of starting classes with prayers, if the teacher wanted to. and they had ...

Imagined Vastness : yes this! I love when I see this in movies/books/etc, and it's cool that the dependably-solid blogger Matt Webb has...

I want to get this out early this year so that, as soon as you get your ballot, you can fill it in and send it back or deposit it, help the ...

" Two Wolves " (summary to save you a click and because links die: "grandson, there are two wolves inside each of us, one goo...

At my job, performing in real time doesn't matter. I'm trying to build/do something, but it's slow and the product matters, not ...

David Graeber This toot by Darius Kazemi - links to this book (which I haven't read) and these essays on flying cars and bullshit job...

this was a slow thread on twitter but I think it's worth unrolling into a blog. I want the good guys win this election. (it's more c...

something about small groups been thinking about scenius . where's that happening? how can I get in? or maybe, have I already been in a ...

cosmic _____ meaning, "cosmic horror but not necessarily horror."   Adventure Time is so good. we're on season 4 and there ar...

about this time we find ourselves in my life story doesn't make a lot of sense these days, and that's hard. I thought I was really...

I've tried signing off twitter for the last 3 days and I think I might as well keep it up. - a large part of my feed is indeed righteous...

Is computer vision Bad? I'm doing some work with computer vision. Some cool things with GANs, some things with getting features out of i...

ultimately, we did move. like, on the one hand, we picked the building that we want to live in. Our building has every convenience! It's...

(read this in the voice of one of those quick-cut videos) "two bedrooms! ok, cool. so here's bedroom number 1, and ... oh, I see, b...

hobbies : " do hobbies suck? " there have been times in my life when I would have had an opinion about this. I think from approx y...

" Why was the daily screaming at 8pm instead of 7pm tonight? " lol at Lyft for saying it out loud: we made everyone data scient...

usually when I say "wow!" I am speaking in doge. today I'm not! I'm gonna write "covid-19" and "coronaviru...

content warning: discussion of whether everything is or isn't hopeless bullshit; the word "suicide" comes up briefly; it'...

I used to post stuff like this and maybe I should again! Honestly, it feels like mostly clearing my brain - stuff that was in a tab somewhe...

this is the most Oblique Strategy blog post I was bummed about something and going "ugh, no no no" the other day, details aren...