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  • July 4, 2024

    Non-Commutative Reading Order : When Books Speak to Each Other Across Time

    It’s fascinating how books aren’t mere repositories of information. That the order in which you encounter them actually dictates how your understanding evolves.


  • June 6, 2024

    Killer Application: The Surprising Correlation Between Engineering Education and Terrorism

    It’s not that terrorists are desperate for tech-talent, it’s that engineering education breeds the type of mindset that’s conducive to extremism.


  • May 22, 2024

    Quarks, Gluons & Jabberwocks : On Aptonyms and Nonce Words

    It’s a very human tendency to conflate representations with reality. We are, after all, symbol-processing machines.


  • May 19, 2024

    Sad Swede, Happy Swede

    Swedish novelists feel bad about life. Meanwhile the rest of the population seem to be doing quite alright.


  • May 13, 2024

    Imperfectly Understanding Quantum Discord

    When forced to simplify, some experts explain discord as a measurement of a certain system’s “quantumness”


  • April 1, 2024

    Show Me Your Canon And I’ll Tell You Who You Are

    What we’re left with in a post-canonical world, is lists. Lists reflect their creator’s point of view in ways that make for great conversation starters.


  • March 28, 2024

    Most of All, You Need a Junkyard

    It would be smart if we could incentivise up-and-coming players to compete on ideas and execution, rather than on who’s got the bigger machine.


  • March 26, 2024

    Hello Tomorrow 2024 : the Good, the Bad & the Ugly

    There’s a lot to like about Hello Tomorrow. What attracts me the most has to do with its tonality.


  • March 7, 2024

    Abortive Action : the Power of Walking Away

    Steve Jobs famously said that “real artists ship”, but Ulf Lundell was perhaps even more profound in stating that “a cancelled concert is also a concert.”


  • February 6, 2024

    Finally Proof: the Limits to AI Are Not What We Thought They Were

    In a funny kind of way, a study like this seems to produce knowledge which extends our ignorance.


  • February 2, 2024

    The Case Against “Deep Work”

    The notion of deep work provides a great excuse for not getting shit done.


  • January 19, 2024

    The Enemy Within

    The nazis couldn’t resist the urge to separate themselves from non-arian elements, just as the post-war US establishment couldn’t resist the temptation to go witch-hunting communists. What causes this type of psycho-political auto immune disorder?


  • January 12, 2024

    The ‘A’ in AI

    Artificial or Augmented, which team do you root for?


  • January 7, 2024

    Ignorant, Incompetent, Functionally Stupid, or Just Plain Dumb?

    Being ignorant means you’re in the dark. Ignorance can be charming; it’s what makes children and dogs cute.


  • January 4, 2024

    A Beautiful Temptation

    What constitutes the canonical English language novel? A deceptively simple idea turns into a cognitive quagmire.

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