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Weekend Reading 8.31.25
Hello all, happy (almost) fall! We’re still in summer mode around here, although my kids are back at their universities now. The house was full all summer and now it’s empty again. Sigh. It’s cleaner, but a lot quieter.
I did what a lot of empty nesters do, I started moving furniture around. I moved the sofa out of our study and placed my desk under the window so I can work from home when needed. With winter coming, having the electric fireplace nearby will be cozy.
The biggest news is…. I switched law firms. I was offered a new opportunity at...
Closing the Loop: Building Shapes with a Planar Graph
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There’s some fun computational geometry in my latest artwork, and in this article I’ll walk through how I take a scramble of disconnected paths and turn them into closed shapes, using half-edges and a planar graph.
...Liberal Arts
For The New York Times: “This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education”, written by Jennifer Frey.
Eyeworks
An illustration for a poster for ‘Eyeworks’, a curated screening series focusing on experimental animation.
Decentering
For De Volkskrant: Stella Bergsma’s essay on decentering men and putting women into the spotlight.
Beautyland
For The New York Times: a review of ‘Beatyland’, a novel by Marie-Helene Bertino.
Atlantic Reading
For The Atlantic: “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books”, written by Rose Horowitch.
Humility
For The New York Times: “The Most Important Thing I Teach My Students Isn’t On The Syllabus” by Frank Bruni.
Sri Lanka
For The New York Review of Books: “Even as a Ghost” written by Anjum Hasan. A reviewof the new novels by V. V. Ganeshananthan and Shehan Karunatilaka, dramatizing Sri Lanka’s recent past.
Millennials
“Millennials: Toothless Idealism”, a cover for De Volkskrant, Illustrating an essay by Toine Donk.