Posts in 2021

• 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
  Tagged: filtered-for

• 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
  Tagged: asmr

• 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
  Tagged: dolphins

• 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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