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Will training data matter anymore for self-driving cars?
January 30, 2023
Two things have changed since 1990
January 24, 2023
What’s in and out for 2023
January 23, 2023
My experience Wednesday in SF
November 10, 2022
I forgot my laptop
December 2, 2021
My Kindle is dead
May 25, 2021
Decentralization is a narrative mirage.
February 3, 2021
Dark and dirty dorm rooms
January 26, 2021
Four years ago
November 3, 2020
Inside every brown take-out bag…
October 29, 2020
Acting like a Github recruiter
October 21, 2020
Radio, SF, and cultural stopgaps
October 16, 2020
Can I smell as well as a bloodhound?
October 14, 2020
Tailwind saved me from a coding ice age
October 13, 2020
Bierstadt and breakfast
October 11, 2020
Big vision, little start
October 2, 2020
Avoiding a bad day
September 30, 2020
2020 > 1924
September 29, 2020
The Needles, Canyonlands
September 25, 2020
To the next chapter
September 11, 2020
Unlearning school
September 2, 2020
Surprises generate smiles.
August 31, 2020
Shared Lyft to Dunkin’ Donuts
August 21, 2020
Pascal’s Scam
August 19, 2020
New one-mile PR
August 18, 2020
Personality is the force majeure of the internet.
August 5, 2020
“All You Need To Know”
July 22, 2020
Birds, Planes, And COVID’s Chokepoint
July 17, 2020
Don’t Judge a Substack By Its Cover
July 15, 2020
Timezones, power-ranked: Mountain, Central, Pacific, Eastern
July 10, 2020
Restaurant Revenue and Goodhart’s Law
July 9, 2020
Long email signatures
July 7, 2020
The High-Frequency-Trading Of News
June 30, 2020
Google blew a ten-year lead.
June 24, 2020
Picky Eaters, Philanderers, and Hamlet
June 16, 2020
Birmingham’s Original Sin
June 9, 2020
The coffee doesn’t taste any good.
May 29, 2020
I Am Nothing and Also Something
May 21, 2020
Stay, leave, or create a hacker house?
May 20, 2020
Late
May 15, 2020
What if I run out of things to say?
May 14, 2020
Patio11’s Law
May 12, 2020
The “Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t” Fallacy
May 7, 2020
I was tricked into thinking I had “grit”
May 5, 2020
Shaving and being human
May 4, 2020
Seatbelts and falling out of a Ford station wagon
April 29, 2020
Charlie Munger is slowly warming up to Elon Musk
April 24, 2020
Running, one year apart
April 23, 2020
Fruit flies and climate change
April 17, 2020
Bill’s Guide To Bread
April 15, 2020
Narrow band of intelligence
April 14, 2020
Learning to love (monitors) again
April 1, 2020
“Hey Alexa, Pause The Economy”
March 18, 2020
Whistler
March 17, 2020
~2,412 people in the U.S. have SARS-CoV-2 (as of 3/5/2020)
March 5, 2020
Working from home
March 3, 2020
Almost out of stock
February 28, 2020
The more “important,” the more engaging
February 27, 2020
Trekking in Kyrgyzstan
February 25, 2020
Being prolific
February 21, 2020
Constraints breed more than creativity
February 19, 2020
Will negative interest rates lead to Marxism?
February 14, 2020
Cocktail Party Entrepreneurs
February 13, 2020
“I Exist”
February 10, 2020
Organizing my thoughts
February 7, 2020
Bars need competition in order to get crowds
February 6, 2020
F-150 Mile Equivalents, “FME’s”
February 5, 2020
“The average American changes their healthcare plan every 2.7 years.”
January 31, 2020
“How did the human cross the road?”
January 30, 2020
From Idaho to Mars
January 29, 2020
Union Square
January 28, 2020
“It’s Vulnerability, Stupid”
January 27, 2020
Just enough to get into trouble, not enough to avoid disaster
January 26, 2020
Side hustle
January 24, 2020
It’s too late to collect sand
January 23, 2020
Everybody already knows
January 22, 2020
“Down” Market
January 21, 2020
“It’s Voluntary”
January 20, 2020
Inventions are memes
January 17, 2020
“I’ll finish that tonight.”
January 16, 2020
AIM and Identity
January 15, 2020
Annualized expenses.
January 14, 2020
Cigarettes, scotch, company, writing, and conversation
January 13, 2020
Hitchens in North Beach
January 9, 2020
E-commerce and iCommerce
December 16, 2019
The Efficient Market Hypothesis and equities
December 9, 2019
Fermentation Station
December 8, 2019
Where Are The Engineer’s Mansions?
December 4, 2019
Lyndon Johnson nearly killed himself running for his first Congressional seat when he was 28 years old.
December 3, 2019
Day 1
December 2, 2019
Munger, on Trump
November 24, 2019
Click
November 21, 2019
This morning I was walking down Divisadero.
November 20, 2019
Google Search Is Dead (8 years later)
November 13, 2019
Streaks
November 12, 2019
Shh
November 11, 2019
“When a supernova explodes, the blast wave creates high-energy particles that scatter in every direction; scientists believe there is a minute chance that one of the errant particles known, as a cosmic ray, can hit a computer chip on Earth, flipping a 0 to a 1.
November 8, 2019
Sitting
November 7, 2019
Why isn’t the trade war a bipartisan issue?
November 6, 2019
“All The News That’s Fit To Print”
November 5, 2019
Language
November 4, 2019
Last month, outside of JFK, Elizabeth commented, “No smoking sign… but it smells like smoke.
November 1, 2019
Ketchum
October 31, 2019
“10 Simple Truths”
March 19, 2019
On Clouds, Since August
March 18, 2019
Nashville, 2 years apart
December 19, 2018
Morgantown to Pittsburgh
December 18, 2018
360° of Mt. Cook
December 12, 2018
Just Walk Out
December 12, 2018
Eating in Mt. Cook National Park
December 6, 2018
Screaming vs. Subtle
December 5, 2018
The Destruction Index
November 30, 2018
Guns, Germs and Sweat
November 19, 2018
Surfing and coffee
November 15, 2018
Turtles, All The Way Down
November 14, 2018
Outsite in Canggu, Bali, Indonesia
November 14, 2018
Chicago
November 9, 2018
Fall, Winter, Summer
November 9, 2018
“The demand curve slopes downward”
November 8, 2018
The end of status
November 6, 2018
Boundaries
November 6, 2018
Birds and buses to BHM
November 3, 2018
Tesla
October 30, 2018
Slow
October 29, 2018
Steve Martin
October 23, 2018
7,830 miles
October 11, 2018
Scrolling and scrolling and scrolling
October 9, 2018
Mr. Singh
October 7, 2018
Not Pictured
October 7, 2018
Chinese hotspot, made for an Indian network, unlocked in Laos, for worldwide internet
October 3, 2018
Goodbye, Pai
October 2, 2018
Motorbiking in Pai
October 1, 2018
Around the world in 80 hostels
October 1, 2018
Big blue dog
September 28, 2018
Monk Chats
September 27, 2018
“I did Chiang Mai” Pet Peeve
September 26, 2018
Mental Model: Chokepoints
September 25, 2018
Hiking to Nalan, a remote ethnic hill tribe.
September 23, 2018
Things I wish existed while I’ve been traveling
September 23, 2018
The “Roadside Motel” Bill
September 21, 2018
Province Tax
September 19, 2018
“The bridge is broken”
September 19, 2018
Hike up to the Nong Kiaw Viewpoint
September 19, 2018
Munger, Wal-mart, and Louis C.K.
September 14, 2018
Exploring Vang Vieng, Laos
September 14, 2018
Driving in Laos
September 14, 2018
“For The Gram”
September 14, 2018
Stitches
September 14, 2018
Great leaders speak plainly
September 8, 2018
Consistency Is Underrated
September 7, 2018
How, Cambodia?
September 4, 2018
Efficient Market Hypothesis
August 20, 2018
Ken’s Artisan Pizza - Portland, OR
August 19, 2018
Seattle
August 18, 2018
“Side Effects May Include”
July 27, 2018
Anti-Bike-Shedding
July 25, 2018
Enthusiasm
July 25, 2018
Brown Line to Kimball
June 30, 2018
Fewer people moving and taking risks
June 28, 2018
Sourdough, June 2018 Vintage
June 27, 2018
“Can you imagine?”
June 25, 2018
The Wall, The Crawl, and the Courtyard
June 24, 2018
“Yeah, no, […]
June 23, 2018
On Leaving Cities
June 21, 2018
Unknown knowns1 and the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
June 20, 2018
Users hate software.
June 20, 2018
Stories, by Steven Pinker
June 18, 2018
Greg LeMond
June 17, 2018
Chicago river at 1am
June 16, 2018
Barren
June 16, 2018
“A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept” - John Ousterhout
June 16, 2018