Monday, January 11, 2016
Look up here, I’m in heaven I’ve got scars that can’t be seen I’ve got drama, can’t be stolen Everybody knows me now
– David Bowie, Lazarus
David Bowie died surrounded by family at his New York home Sunday, January 10, 2016 eighteen months after being diagnosed with cancer. He …
Monday, December 14, 2015
Machine Intelligence In The Real World [...] Textio is a text editor that recommends improvements to job descriptions as you type. With it, I can go from a 40th percentile job description to a 90th percentile one in just a few minutes, all thanks to a beautifully presented machine learning …Saturday, April 19, 2014
Gabriel García Márquez on life as literatureThe recently deceased García Márquez, in an interview published in the winter 1981 issue of The Paris Review: My mother asked me to accompany her to Aracataca, where I was born, and to sell the house where I spent my first years. When I got there it was …Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Aggregation is plagiarismAggregation is plagiarism: I couldn’t help but aggregate (though not plagiarize) this link Jim Dalrymple aggregated to a post by a Mr. Joe Wilcox about how aggregation is, well, plagiarism. It’s true, now that you’ve read this you don’t need to read the original to know what …Saturday, January 18, 2014
500 Words A DayMG Siegler, general partner at Google Ventures, TechCrunch columnist, and tech writer: This year, my plan is to write roughly 500 words a day in the form of a short post here on this site. Good idea. Me too (although I’m a little late to punch so far).Sunday, August 25, 2013
How reality caught up with paranoid delusions it was not in the least like losing one’s reason… I was rationalising all the time, it was simply one’s reason working hard on the wrong premises. — novelist Evelyn Waugh, speaking retrospectively of his own psychotic episode This is a fascinating …Friday, May 24, 2013
10 great free monospaced fonts for programmingI can understand why programmers may want to consider using a decent font, but it’s worth noting that writers, particularly those who prefer plain text, should also pay attention to the fonts they’re using. I like to write with a monospace font for two …Tuesday, September 4, 2012
BrevityMG Siegler posted yesterday about his desire to write with more concision. His point is a good one: writing concisely suggests, when you think about it, a far better grasp of a topic than does the need to write 1,000 words about it. It’s a lesson I learned from a couple of professors in law …Friday, August 31, 2012
Being Real Builds TrustSteph Hay, writing at A List Apart: Your mom may not be your target user, but she is a real person who’ll call you on your bullshit. This is great advice.Friday, July 13, 2012
This site is supposed to be me talking about the law and technology, but I have some shameless self promotion to do, so I’m deviating from the usual subject matter this week. <shameless_self_promotion> I recently started a new Tumblr called, creatively, Fiction by Joe Ross. I’m posting flash …