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Stephen Jonany

Stephen Jonany

[Book] Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

TL;DR. More connectivity + power among humans in the past led to bad outcomes like witch hunts. Now that we have AI + social network to…

3d ago

3d ago

Stephen Jonany

[Monthly learning] Physics, Piano tutorial website, Podcast

This is my first month off work! Here are some interesting things that I dabbled with.

Nov 1

Nov 1

Stephen Jonany

Figuring out what to do with my “career”

I recently quit my job to take some time to rethink what I want out of my “career” — if I even want one. Here is a jumbled list of…

Oct 14

Oct 14

Stephen Jonany

Computational kindness at work

Edit: Did a talk on this topic.

Oct 6

Oct 6

Stephen Jonany

[Book] A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

Notable quotes

Sep 22

Sep 22

Stephen Jonany

[Book] How to know a person

“ Love is knowledge of the individual , … Evil happens when people are unseeing , when they don’t recognize the personhood in other human…

Sep 20

Sep 20

Stephen Jonany

[Book] The practice of practice — Jonathan Harnum

Notable quotes

Jul 25

Jul 25

Stephen Jonany

[Book] Rationality from AI to zombies

Some quotes I enjoyed from https://www.readthesequences.com/

Jul 18

Jul 18

Stephen Jonany

[Monthly learning] Floundering around

Reflection: floundering. This month it feels like I’m just floundering around — I don’t have a concrete project that I was excited enough…

Jun 30

Jun 30

Stephen Jonany

Chrome extensions can steal your data — what you can do to mitigate this

TL;DR. That video speed controller extension you have might be sending all your keystrokes to a remote endpoint. One mitigation is only…

Jun 12

Jun 12

Stephen Jonany

Stephen Jonany

Software engineer at Snowflake ❄️. Previously at Google. Book quotes on engineering, science, productivity, life. linktr.ee/sjonany

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