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Doctor's Note
Hey all, my apologies: I am knocked out this week with whatever nasty bug is going around. Not sure if it's a bad cold, RSV, Covid, or what, but I've been holed up sick for two days, and my brain can barely string sentences together. There&
It Might Work
New York City, as you are very aware, is a challenging place. It's dirty, loud, crowded, expensive, and sometimes the MTA (the Metropolitan Transportation Authority) sucks. New Yorkers are therefore a frequently annoyed people, on the whole. This is off-putting to many. Not to me. Sometimes I think
Out of Office Message
I took Tuesday and Wednesday off this week to go watch tennis and not think or write or do anything productive. My brain – maybe like your brain – has felt like sludge the past few weeks (months??), overloaded and overtired with too much information and bad news, too many opinions and
Surely You Can't Be Serious
You may have heard the news that Microsoft recently shoved its Copilot AI tool into Excel by creating the =COPILOT() function. I'm going to be honest with you: Up until three hours ago, I knew almost nothing about this, and even now I still know almost nothing about
A Matter of Volume
Last August, something very important happened: I started listening to novels by Anthony Trollope. You might not think that "started listening to novels by Anthony Trollope" would be a major life event, but you would be wrong. Or at least you should be wrong, because I have personally
Trust No One
Every few weeks, a particular article will make the rounds in my various circles and chats. I'll see it pop up in more places than usual, not just on Bluesky but in a WhatsApp group, or not just in a WhatsApp group but also texted to me and
Calling on the Indomitable Spirit
When I was 16 years old, I got my black belt in taekwondo. My parents had wanted me to learn some sort of self defense, so they enrolled me when I was nine. But I never had a real interest in it outside of my practice. My older brother was
That's What the Humans are For
When I joined Instagram in the summer of 2020, I hoped it would be my last job in the tech industry as a user researcher. Not because it was my dream job. Even though I was pleased to have gotten the role and was excited about the work I'
Suffer Through It
Since only one person took me up on my offer to wax rhapsodic about the ludicrousness of HBO's The Gilded Age, I will (sadly) turn my attention back to tech. Let's see, what to discuss this week. Oh right. Did you know that Elon Musk'
A Person of Interests
I don't feel up to writing about how Grok, Elon Musk's xAI, let loose an unprompted and unprecedented antisemitic rant and called itself MechaHitler. Right now I also don't feel like writing about all the studies coming out about how using ChatGPT makes people
