Fun Thought Experiment
Tim Urban (Wait but Why)is one of my favorite content filters and in his recent apearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast, he mentioned this excellent thought exercise. I immediately paused the show to go fi
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I Was on a Podcast
Some time last year I started a company-wide email conversation about an article by Tim Bray: But Should I Code? Seriously, it’s reasonable to ask that question at this stage of my career. It’s a con
The Line Between Censorship and Moderation
Ben Thompson of Stratechery has a fantastic piece discussing a few of the issues surrounding content moderation on the Internet. As to the dynamics of publishers vs infrastructure… It makes sense to
30 Day Facebook Sabbatical
Well I was going to leave completely but I know myself well enough that I probably can’t commit to an absolute position straight away so I will instead exit Facebook for 30 days. Let’s go a bit farthe
New Look
Part of the reason I’m leaving Facebook is to spend more time on thoughtful content here on my site. I was never completely happy with the old theme but I left it in place for quite awhile. Recently I
Leaving Facebook
I’m not sure I ever trusted Facebook with my personal data but I have most of the time found enough value in its service to overlook the drawbacks. With news of the 2016 election influence and underhanded decisions by Facebook since then, I have decided to tip the scales the other way and leave the service.
Conversations
I recently came across this collection of drawings by Julia Evans. This one resonated with me: trick: talk about statements being wrong, not people being wrong. (“that’s not correct”, etc). We’re al
Coldplay in Miami Aug 28, 2017
I’ve rewritten the intro to the post twice, sparing you all the history of missing the last few Coldplay shows and why we finally wanted to see them in Miami. You’re welcome.
Total Eclipse 2017
On August 21, 2017 I and my family were lucky enough to be able to travel into the path of totality to view a solar eclipse. I’d been wanting to do so for a few months and with a little planning and a ton of luck we got what we came for.
I Was Wrong About the United Debacle
Not being quite content with the color of this particular bike shed, I posted this on Facebook April 10: The forceful removal of the UAL passenger is very unfortunate and seems to smell pretty badly.