The difference between great products and perfect ones — Lately, I’ve been enamored with this idea of the last 2%. It’s very simple. Suppose we say that if a given product is designed to address a certain problem, a consumer will not feel fully satisfied until the task is 100% complete. The idea here is that the last 2%…

Last week, Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro went on sale in stores around the world. Its signature selling point: a distinctive triple-lens camera system and an impressive software suite to accompany it. New advancements in computational photography leverage machine learning to perform semantic rendering of compositional elements, algorithmically recombine rapid photo…

Today, I graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. — Today, I graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Like most people, I was given lots of advice about how to make the best of these years. Let’s see if I made the grade. RPI was never a place I wanted to go to so much as a place that I ended…

Technological solutions for ending or mitigating school shootings — Today, again, America grieves. On Thursday, February 15, seventeen high school students and faculty members lost their lives in a horrific massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, and at least a dozen more have been hospitalized for their injuries. In the wake of what is now the…

On this day one score ago, I awakened from the abyss and was thrust headlong into this strange world. Long I have wandered and wondered, gathered knowledge and searched for answers. Who am I, and what am I doing here, and where am I going, and for what reason? I…

“My brain is open!” These are the famous words that Paul Erdős spoke to the world’s foremost mathematicians as he surprised them at their doorsteps. Erdős, one of the world’s most prolific mathematicians, published over 1,500 papers in his lifetime with more than 500 collaborators. …