My second-cousin once removed tipped me off to this 70-hour meticulous boat restoration series that has over 8 million views. One boat, lots of love. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Infinity View of the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social is one of my favorite places on the internet. Just drag and gaze until I have a, "What the heck is that?" moment. Never disappoints. pdimagearchive.org/infinite-view/

You can create custom filters in the Brave browser that block specific CSS elements on web pages. This one makes YouTube much more tolerable for me, no more algorithmic suggestions of what to watch next floating on the lower right side.

It's been wild to see the range of AI adoption at organizations as I help more of them with this work. I liked a lot of things about this @pioneersof.ai episode from @waitwhat.com on the topic. open.spotify.com/episode/4gOe...

What do you do when an organization's leader suddenly dies? www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Uh... is the excessive sycophancy around spiritual topics a result of excessive spiritual bypass in the internet chatter based training data? Wild. www.anthropic.com/research/cla...

I tell people I'd rather mediate in small claims court than go to a Broadway show any day. Maybe this piece will show you why, or maybe you'll still think this is a bit weird. www.linkedin.com/pulse/see-yo...

That's are really cool. What dignified photography, too.

My high school experience was nothing like this but I did have to wear uniforms. I loved the bit about dismantling the 6G tower and just how long that dance sequence is at the end. youtu.be/x6_mbnsh6VU?...

Now, after taking a digital embroidery course, I see images like this and think, "I could embroider that."

This was incredibly satisfying to watch. Quality filmmaking, zany characters, crass social commentary, good adventure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

Been having interesting conversations with AI detractors who realize their stance is more informed by a hate of the tech bros than actual concerns with the tech itself. This was interesting to tease apart.

I feel like I've told three different groups of people that I hate theatre in just the past 24 hours. Must be something in the astrology at the moment.

Did you know that for the cost of one high-end digital embroidery machine, you could get an entire pack of robot dogs? I just cannot stop thinking about it. Which would you choose?

There's this zany bit of AI nonsense where you can have Kagi translate into anything. I tried this on my most recent article not thinking it would work..... but it did! 🤣 I loooosing it!!! translate.kagi.com

Could it be reasonable to draw sweeping conclusions about a culture based on whether their old people play mahjong or bingo? 🀄️

Thinking about the combination of new wave aesthetic and bathing culture makes me happy www.wetmagazine.com

Even routine gatherings can become high stakes when they push on something deeply important to the people involved. When that happens, people behave differently as their protective instincts take over. The usual approaches to group dynamics can backfire. uncommonplaces.com/resources/tw...

Cool to see how good LLMs have gotten with supporting data analysis: newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/three-ways... ...and legal work: x.com/zackbshapiro...

Just subscribed to a print publication at full price for the first time in I don't know how long... a decade and a half maybe? You've got me hooked with an upcoming issue on risk. asteriskmag.com @asteriskmag.bsky.social

Every single language I've learned I can use back home in New York City. I just thanked the guy at the bodega counter in Nepali, a language I didn't even realize I remembered any of. I love it.

I probably already have "Photographs of the People of New York Who Look Like Birds" somewhere on my bookshelf. Looks so familiar.

One of the most common missteps I see when people design an event is to focus on the agenda. We think that if we organize time well, all else will follow. This is so rarely the case. uncommonplaces.com/resources/de...

I'm digging into the annual Anonymous Creative Futures report, just recently online. I really like everything that @metalabel.bsky.social is doing to create new infrastructure for creatives and artists. This stat jumped out at me. Lots of great things in the report. acf2026.artistcorporations.com

fun fact! Last year, Zohran Mamdani's wikipedia page got more hits than Elon Musk's. Trump and the new Pope beat out both of them though. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Here's my proposal on ways to think about AI in 2026. Enjoy! www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-m...

Really nice radical idea for teaching: "reduce the amount of time you’re in charge." parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/ped... Posting here to remind myself to come back to this write up whenever I'm teaching regularly again.

This Fractals and Textiles collection makes me drool! I am hooked. ejtech.studio/GWU-FRACTALS...

I wrote a too-long post on designing better hackathons. I love hackathons and I'll keep going, but it pains me when they are really poorly designed. www.linkedin.com/pulse/most-h...

More reasons to be stoked about AI! I've got a bunch of old family letters in an Italian dialect that need transcribing and translation. Hope this can help!

Great video of investigative research into grocery pricing practices. Thank you @moreperfectunion.bsky.social for doing this work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=osxr... Is @linamkhan.bsky.social weighing in groceries these days because she's on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's transition team??? I hope so!

Another good conversation with Tristian Harris, has me thinking about the challenge and application of foresight. (the convo gets better half way through, once he effectively cuts down the interviewer's inane belief in techno-utopian abundance) www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ZY...

"It felt like an unspoken request or comradely offer to chow down on mutual feelings of outrage, shame, and pity... I found the move memorably weird, like the conversation had been invaded by flying ActBlue spam." Ugh, yes, very good language for it. Can relate www.burningshore.com/p/empathy-bo...

Whoever does the creative direction for the Dumbo NYC BID has got some funky flair... The horse voice coming out of the construction cone Christmas tree gives me Beetlejuice vibes. Also, seems like the "tree" itself might be a pirate radio tower? 🤷‍♀️🤔

Oh how I gloat when friends send me messages like these. They think AI is some simple bit of nonsense technology that they can surely get a handle of easy peasy. Sure, sweetheart. Sure...

I just spent a relaxing 90 minutes in a glittering cardboard cave made by a friend with that friend. It was so nice.

Cheering on @mosesnyc.bsky.social and all the other great new york nerds, diehards, and creatives on the transition team!

I've lost friends to OneTaste and had to bail out of a work retreat accidentally programmed at a venue owned by OneTaste founders. Very glad @ellenhuet.bsky.social exposed the manipulation driving it. Here she is in convo with Jules Evans (www.ecstaticintegration.org).

I agree with these gentlemen. I love New York City.

something so appealing about the dog-faced donut, more so than the XL pain au chocolat... theinvisibledog.substack.com/p/from-paris...

I really like this focus on "obligation to others overriding the need for self-expression" as a qualification of good leadership. findhigherground.substack.com/p/dont-be-yo...

Very good read. So much is so familiar. findhigherground.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...

Working from The Center for Fiction today. The sound of footsteps echoing against tall book stacks is so reassuring. Will be doing this more often. centerforfiction.org

Unexpectedly saw a very bad ex at an event I love and frequent. Feeling so grateful to the theoretical physics who chatted my ear off. I was genuinely interested and the intellectual distraction was so welcome. More reasons to love/hate quantum computers?

Someone I know who's in a fragile mental state post-breakup shared how they're using ChatGPT to work through it. Their approach sounded dubious. I suggested at least trying mental health specific AI bots, none of which I have tried, so not sure how good they are. What would you do?

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"I thought it was like a calculator. It's never going to say '2+2 = 5.' It would never lie to you. Why would it?" Agreed, worth watching.

I really held out trying to keep LinkedIn as a rolodex, but it's overcome me as really just a social network. Bummer.