
Posts in 2021
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Solving the Rubik’s Cube and other hard-to-recognise problems
21.49, Monday 4 Jan 2021 (streak: 41 weeks)
701 words, 2 links -
How about finding new books by mapping who thanks who?
14.48, Tuesday 5 Jan 2021 (streak: 41 weeks)
910 words, 8 links -
The continuing rise of virtual private neighbourhoods
21.01, Thursday 7 Jan 2021 (streak: 41 weeks)
693 words, 6 links
Has 2 follow-up posts -
Headphones need smart transparency mode with voice recognition
11.41, Friday 8 Jan 2021 (streak: 41 weeks)
423 words, 3 links
Tagged: ageography -
Speculative ad formats for the post-newsfeed world
21.31, Monday 11 Jan 2021 (streak: 42 weeks)
1,212 words, 9 links -
Using printed QR codes for links in books
16.55, Tuesday 12 Jan 2021 (streak: 42 weeks)
493 words, 9 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
Viscerally and deliberately unsettling product design
13.38, Thursday 14 Jan 2021 (streak: 42 weeks)
440 words, 10 links -
The imminent possibility of UFOs
20.40, Monday 18 Jan 2021 (streak: 43 weeks)
902 words, 9 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
The feeling of percolating on stubborn problems
19.33, Tuesday 19 Jan 2021 (streak: 43 weeks)
442 words, 1 link -
Maps and cameras are neglected app runtimes
20.38, Wednesday 20 Jan 2021 (streak: 43 weeks)
899 words, 4 links -
Towards the Orthogonal Technology Lab, v0.1
20.05, Thursday 21 Jan 2021 (streak: 43 weeks)
1,387 words, 10 links
Has 3 follow-up posts -
Rituals for kings, stem cells, and Zoom calls
19.44, Monday 25 Jan 2021 (streak: 44 weeks)
959 words, 5 links -
Briefly on Medusa and why societies collapse
15.45, Wednesday 27 Jan 2021 (streak: 44 weeks)
527 words, 4 links
Tagged: complexity -
Filtered for lo-fi strange new worlds
19.56, Friday 29 Jan 2021 (streak: 44 weeks)
856 words, 9 links
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Golems, smart objects, and the file metaphor
20.52, Monday 1 Feb 2021 (streak: 45 weeks)
2,011 words, 13 links -
Let’s think of some new vices to tax
18.47, Tuesday 2 Feb 2021 (streak: 45 weeks)
1,162 words, 5 links -
Dowsing the collective unconscious with GPT-3
17.01, Thursday 4 Feb 2021 (streak: 45 weeks)
614 words, 5 links
Tagged: gpt-3 -
Animals driving cars and other jobs
10.43, Monday 8 Feb 2021 (streak: 46 weeks)
408 words, 6 links -
Memexes, mountain lakes, and the serendipity of old ideas
19.42, Wednesday 10 Feb 2021 (streak: 46 weeks)
1,050 words, 18 links -
Anxious feelings about optimisation through complexity
14.50, Friday 12 Feb 2021 (streak: 46 weeks)
721 words, 4 links
Tagged: complexity -
Heating your home by preying on the vulnerable
17.12, Tuesday 16 Feb 2021 (streak: 47 weeks)
691 words, 7 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
Ceci n’est pas une calculatrice
17.18, Thursday 18 Feb 2021 (streak: 47 weeks)
438 words, 3 links -
What to do with spare TV ad inventory
18.12, Friday 19 Feb 2021 (streak: 47 weeks)
518 words, 4 links -
Nothing is real vs everything is real
15.51, Tuesday 23 Feb 2021 (streak: 48 weeks)
496 words, 8 links
Tagged: gpt-3 -
My best story about Bitcoin and cats, which isn’t even my story
17.44, Wednesday 24 Feb 2021 (streak: 48 weeks)
420 words, 4 links -
Let’s invent new interfaces, not new products
17.32, Thursday 25 Feb 2021 (streak: 48 weeks)
507 words, 2 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
Four years of noting down my favourite words
14.09, Friday 26 Feb 2021 (streak: 48 weeks)
1,243 words, 4 links -
Revolutions and NAND gates, eight cents, wholesale
09.24, Tuesday 2 Mar 2021 (streak: 49 weeks)
836 words, 3 links -
Filtered for some text-based virtual realities
19.53, Wednesday 3 Mar 2021 (streak: 49 weeks)
985 words, 20 links
Tagged: filtered-for -
My iPad should have a gaze-controlled cursor
17.55, Thursday 4 Mar 2021 (streak: 49 weeks)
413 words, 1 link
Has 1 follow-up post -
1980s (you), 2000s (connection). What’s the 2020s zeitgeist?
16.26, Monday 8 Mar 2021 (streak: 50 weeks)
607 words, 4 links -
Filtered for bonsai trees
18.04, Thursday 11 Mar 2021 (streak: 50 weeks)
653 words, 11 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: filtered-for -
An eyebrow raise means left click
20.04, Friday 12 Mar 2021 (streak: 50 weeks)
628 words, 4 links -
Continuing to think about research labs: 14 references
17.04, Monday 15 Mar 2021 (streak: 51 weeks)
1,587 words, 25 links -
The ASMR version of Bee Movie, and other neuro-divergent media
14.26, Tuesday 16 Mar 2021 (streak: 51 weeks)
1,096 words, 16 links
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Work: Availability from July
10.28, Thursday 18 Mar 2021 (streak: 51 weeks)
601 words, 7 links -
Social Attention: a modest prototype in shared presence
16.43, Monday 22 Mar 2021 (streak: 52 weeks)
1,055 words, 5 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
The Suez Canal and other global infrastructure exploits
21.11, Thursday 25 Mar 2021 (streak: 52 weeks)
878 words, 8 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
Poker, blacksmithery, and other activities that teach a way to see the world
18.57, Friday 26 Mar 2021 (streak: 52 weeks)
1,033 words, 8 links -
Baking life lessons and musings on metabolism
17.37, Tuesday 30 Mar 2021 (streak: 53 weeks)
1,004 words, 7 links
Tagged: yeast -
Clues for software design in how we sketch maps of cities
21.10, Wednesday 31 Mar 2021 (streak: 53 weeks)
1,339 words, 7 links -
On the possibility of a dolphin pope
14.59, Tuesday 6 Apr 2021 (streak: 54 weeks)
784 words, 7 links
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Let’s make robot a dirty word
16.44, Wednesday 7 Apr 2021 (streak: 54 weeks)
880 words, 5 links -
Is collective efficacy a human need?
19.56, Thursday 8 Apr 2021 (streak: 54 weeks)
462 words, 3 links -
A short dream about the unnoticed end of the world
17.31, Friday 9 Apr 2021 (streak: 54 weeks)
309 words, no links -
Two product ideas for hybrid working
17.17, Monday 12 Apr 2021 (streak: 55 weeks)
396 words, 2 links -
A list of seven different jobs, all called designer
18.19, Tuesday 13 Apr 2021 (streak: 55 weeks)
755 words, 3 links -
Salads, shipping containers, and subtle signs of a supply chain reset
18.14, Friday 16 Apr 2021 (streak: 55 weeks)
932 words, 9 links
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