A historical collection of our writing.
I am implementing a radical change to my scheduling: my default is going from saying yes to a meeting request to no. For a long time I have tried to meet with pretty much everybody who sincerely reached out to me. Sometimes it would just be a short meeting, sometimes I would push the meeting […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
“But no matter, the road is life” – Jack Kerouac Everyone is, rightly, talking about the wonderful and heartfelt and authentic essay by Macklemore about the incredible year they have had. It’s that good, it should be read. It is a measure of how, sticking to your principles can lead to wonderful […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
I was asked on Twitter what I think about SecureDrop. The short answer is that I am thrilled to see it. Just like I was thrilled about the New Yorker’s StrongBox which is based on the same original code by Aaron Swartz. Now I think the reason the question was asked in the first place […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
It is definitely Homeschool Wednesday in our household, as Susan has a blog post out about raising active decision makers. My post today will be about math. There are a great many problems with how math is taught in schools but the one I want to focus on is motivation. Generally math is presented as […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
At MIT one of my statistics classes was taught by Prof. Jerry Hausman (of the Hausman test). In every class Prof. Hausman would at some point reach a result and then exclaim “and this proves that life is unfair” (usually it was that your statistical test had less power than you would have hoped […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
“The context in which makes possible an underlying sense of the way it all fits together despite our collective tendency not to conceive of it as such” – The Books, “Smells Like Content” I was with a friend the other night, and he was talking about how amazing and varied the programming on […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
