Corollary to Cunningham's Law: For some individuals, the quickest way to find out their meeting availability isn't to ask; it's to schedule a meeting and wait for them to suggest a different time.

How do we prepare students for an AI-powered future? Join our virtual reading event featuring @drdavidjoyner.bsky.social, author of A Teacher’s Guide to Conversational AI! Starting Monday, April 7, engage in a 4-week asynchronous discussion with the author & fellow educators. www.perusall.com/engage

Starting Monday, I'll be running a Perusall Engage community book event reading through A Teacher's Guide to Conversational AI using the Perusall platform to annotate and discuss the book. If you're interested in joining, check it out at: perusall.com/engage

"I'll make this chart look better if the paper is accepted" and other lies I tell myself

Three months after adding a chatbot to my web site trained on my own publication history, CV, and blog, I decided to write an informal retrospective on the kinds of conversations I've seen people have with it: www.davidjoyner.net/on-three-mon...

I was going to create this image while waiting for ChatGPT to run, but /u/potatodemon beat me to it. Ironically, though, I accidentally closed ChatGPT while searching for this, so it had to start over anyway.

I don't know who else needs to know this but: scrolling through your ancient Amazon order history is a weirdly memories-like experience for things you never would have posted to social media otherwise. "Huh, I forgot my 2011 fitness kick!" "My wallet has lasted HOW long?!" "Ooh I remember VGA!"

Chess Zoo xkcd.com/3036

As I have the past four years, I ended 2024 by listing out my ten favorite books that I read in the preceding calendar year! The list is at www.davidjoyner.net/on-my-top-bo... I miss being able to tag the actual authors in these posts. Quick, society, coalesce around a new standard social network.

In my continued efforts to make sure anyone introducing me at any future talks has to start by taking a big, deep breath, I'm adding a new role to my job effective January 1: I'll be the Georgia Tech College of Computing's new Associate Dean for Off-Campus & Special Initiatives.

I accidentally added another monitor to my setup, and in the process reenabled the touchscreen functionality on the bottom four monitors. I feel like there's something cool I could be doing with those, like a stream deck alternative or something else. Any suggested apps? (Windows 11, if relevant.)