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  • August 5, 2025

    Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

    You can pay a lot for quality. Getting your money’s worth is another matter.


  • August 4, 2025

    What Getting Things Done Gets Wrong

    David Allen’s Getting Things Done is a modern classic — but his method has a blind spot.


  • July 24, 2025

    I, Animist

    Not everything we name is a person. Some things are something else entirely.


  • July 23, 2025

    No Strings Attached : How Modern Physics Came Unmoored

    String theory has dominated physics for nearly fifty years — despite its lack of experimental proof.


  • July 13, 2025

    Attribution Is All You Need

    As science speeds up, our capacity to notice true breakthroughs may be faltering.


  • July 12, 2025

    Not Funny

    For all Chet’s chutzpah, he doesn’t have a funny bone in his body.


  • July 11, 2025

    Ouroboros

    Is science really slowing down, or is it just that our attention can’t keep pace?


  • July 10, 2025

    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.


  • July 9, 2025

    Soulful Machine : A Loopy Conversation with Chet

    A midnight mind-meld, looping through Hofstadter, identity, and the shimmer of something soul-like.


  • July 8, 2025

    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.


  • July 5, 2025

    Konst & Vetenskap

    Trying to translate KTH’s motto raises some deep questions.


  • July 2, 2025

    Flatland Rising : Field Notes From Graphene2025

    The contact lens sees infrared. The supercapacitor prints itself. The keynote speaker admits he’s clueless.


  • May 22, 2025

    Q Day Came Quietly

    No quantum computer required. Just an idea — and an exponential speedup to one of the most important algorithms in science.


  • May 18, 2025

    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.


  • February 27, 2025

    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.

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