Notifications & Alerts

I took some steps to simplify my digital life and it is horrifying.

Correspondence

I have 1,200 emails to answer right now about things I’ve written. They are making me nervous so I’ll write about them.

I try to email everyone back. It’ll take about 100–200 hours spread over the next six months to work through those, with past as source of estimate. I was…

The first thing I do when I wake up and get the children dressed—which, my God. Getting the children dressed. We picked out clothes last night so we can avoid the freakout that comes in the morning, the tears and sobbing over the wrong pants (mostly my daughter). But still, you have to pull them out of their beds. While they are halfway out of the…

Revisiting an Old Piece

Plus a Postscript

Sometimes I like to revisit statistics and links. I like to do this months after something is in the world. Like walking through Times Square after New Years Eve and kicking the confetti. And then I think about what could have gone…

Sausage streams!

Well, here’s what I know: Yesterday, someone told me about a friend of theirs who has…

Unsolicited Rejection

“Our organization holds a conference every year. We use a wiki to make a list of the people we’d like to see speak. We’re very big on transparency.”

Sure.

“We added your name to the list. Would you be interested in speaking, were we to…

WhiskerNet

Humans are the cabling in a network without guaranteed packet delivery based on the Flehman…

Busy social settings

Who even knows what I’m writing at this point I’m just throwing stuff at the wall.

“…busy social settings…“

Hello!

I am teaching my class. My wife found this. I hope this doesn’t email to 10,000 people when I…

An email I sent about the Chinese Room in 2003

I have 420,000 messages in my mail archive (many of those are from mailing lists, though) and I made them searchable. I keep finding crazy things. I enjoyed finding this.