Diana Kimball Berlin

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been looking for a sustainable commonplace book system. My ideal system would be:

1. Broad. Because I read online articles and ebooks in equal measure, an ideal system would address both.

Even though it’s only two subway stops away, I’d literally never been to MIT before this week. It existed in a sort of alternate universe, where the buildings looked like pages out of Dr. Seuss, and geeks became geekier, instead of becoming i-bankers. [Edit: it has been pointed out to…

Notes on what it’s like to write code.

Today, I raced back into Ruby’s arms.

It’s hard to believe, but the end of the semester is drawing near, and so CS50 (the intro to computer science course I’m taking at Harvard) is winding down, too. Well…

Kickstarter, and Imminence

billboard, originally uploaded by Diana Kimball.

Saturdays ago, with the windows rolled down, Robin drove to…

Coding and Decoding

In 2009, Robin Sloan and Tim Carmody invited me to contribute an entry to a speculative course catalog. (The whole thing is…

So I was reading LifeHacker. Like I do…um…every day. But anyway! Today, LifeHacker opened a post up for comments on how to survive your freshman year of college. Aha, I thought. How to survive college. Finally, something I know something about! I…