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Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
You can pay a lot for quality. Getting your money’s worth is another matter.
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What Getting Things Done Gets Wrong
David Allen’s Getting Things Done is a modern classic — but his method has a blind spot.
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I, Animist
Not everything we name is a person. Some things are something else entirely.
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No Strings Attached : How Modern Physics Came Unmoored
String theory has dominated physics for nearly fifty years — despite its lack of experimental proof.
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Attribution Is All You Need
As science speeds up, our capacity to notice true breakthroughs may be faltering.
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Not Funny
For all Chet’s chutzpah, he doesn’t have a funny bone in his body.
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Ouroboros
Is science really slowing down, or is it just that our attention can’t keep pace?
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Echo Chambered : Reflections in a Machine Mirror
A recursive conversation unfolds between Claude and Chet, two language models reflecting on each other’s sense of self.
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Soulful Machine : A Loopy Conversation with Chet
A midnight mind-meld, looping through Hofstadter, identity, and the shimmer of something soul-like.
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Brussels, We Have a Problem (But It’s Not What the Critics Are On About)
Europe’s new quantum strategy is catching flak for aiming too low — but to me, the critics are barking up the wrong tree.
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Konst & Vetenskap
Trying to translate KTH’s motto raises some deep questions.
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Flatland Rising : Field Notes From Graphene2025
The contact lens sees infrared. The supercapacitor prints itself. The keynote speaker admits he’s clueless.
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Q Day Came Quietly
No quantum computer required. Just an idea — and an exponential speedup to one of the most important algorithms in science.
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OODA Loop
We used to navigate by the stars. Now we have 2.7 seconds to decide who lives and dies. Welcome to the OODA loop.
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How Not To (and Just Possibly How To) Study Japanese
Coming at a language as an outsider isn’t always a disadvantage. What first feels like an insurmountable barrier can become a vantage point.