Design Matters (8): Where’s that file?
I can make a reasonably sensible filing system, but tend to fall down when it comes to the practice of administrative maintenance. Like personal hygiene,… Read More »Design Matters (8): Where’s that file?
tools and techniques
Technology (4): General Purpose Technologies
No one can escape the transforming fire of machines. Kevin Kelly – New Rules for the New Economy Not all technologies are created equal. Most… Read More »Technology (4): General Purpose Technologies
Recommendation: Computerphile on Data Analysis
This is an excellent introductory series of videos giving an overview of what data is, important differences between different types of data, how it’s processed… Read More »Recommendation: Computerphile on Data Analysis
Technology (3): A history of augmentation
A history of augmentation Wikipedia has a nice, roughly chronological list of early technologies. It seems that weapons, cooking and languages were the trio that… Read More »Technology (3): A history of augmentation
Technology (2): Artifice-ial Beings
… technology predated our humanness… The strategy of bending the environment to use as if it were part of one’s own body is a half-billion-year-old… Read More »Technology (2): Artifice-ial Beings
Marc Andreessen: product vs business
We don’t believe there’s a tension between product and business, we believe there’s a staging, which is in this [the tech] industry you don’t have… Read More »Marc Andreessen: product vs business
Technology (1): Second Nature
My working definition of technology is:Â anything useful made by a mind. Kevin Kelly – Technology’s Epic Story (TED talk) What technology isn’t Technology isn’t (just)… Read More »Technology (1): Second Nature
Would you like a cup of tea?
(Or coffee? Or beer? Or fries with that?) … is a good test case for thinking about your personal decision making. It has all the… Read More »Would you like a cup of tea?
OpenAI Codex; or, why you might not want to go all in on becoming a full-stack developer
It makes sense that one of the jobs most amenable to automation by AI must be computer programming itself. For all their complicated (as opposed… Read More »OpenAI Codex; or, why you might not want to go all in on becoming a full-stack developer
Allen Downey on the cool things about free books (2)
More from Allen Downey (full version – recommended – here). A free license is not just a different way to distribute the same product; a… Read More »Allen Downey on the cool things about free books (2)