Published infathominfoKicking off 2022This was originally intended to be a spring 2021 e-mail, which became a summer update, then it was gonna be “goodbye to our intern” in…Jan 26, 20221Jan 26, 20221
Published infathominfoBuilding Tools for the Next—and the Current—PandemicFor years, Pardis Sabeti has tried to get funding to build the necessary tools to mitigate the “next pandemic.” On the front lines of the…Oct 1, 2021Oct 1, 2021
Published infathominfoHealthcare Data + Design, the Next 20 YearsThere are so many interesting data & design problems in healthcare—here are a few that we’re thinking about.Oct 1, 20191Oct 1, 20191
The Four Cs of Data + DesignDesign as a human-centered approach to rethinking how people use, interact with, and understand data.May 3, 20193May 3, 20193
Published inProcessing FoundationProcessing Community Day 2019Ben Fry’s Opening RemarksJan 19, 2019Jan 19, 2019
Twenty YearsTwenty years ago this weekend, I first arrived in Boston. I was coming from San Francisco, where I’d been living happily and planned to…Sep 3, 20183Sep 3, 20183
Published infathominfoOutline for a Dostoyevsky NovelOver the past few weeks, we’ve been making prototypes depicting entities and relationships in large sets of documents. Separately, we found…Mar 29, 20182Mar 29, 20182
Published infathominfoReconnecting ChinaExactly five years ago, we launched Connected China. Irene Liu, who led the project at Thomson Reuters, unveiled it at a conference at 4PM…Mar 7, 2018Mar 7, 2018
Published infathominfoOver HeardA design exploration of the On Being archiveJan 29, 20182Jan 29, 20182
Muriel CooperThese are remarks I prepared for a panel at a Media Lab event celebrating the life and work of Muriel Cooper. It’s my attempt to sum up…Oct 20, 20171Oct 20, 20171
