Summary of changes for April 2026

Hey everyone!

This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.

Summer's already here, pushing us to finish a few last minute projects aboard Pino. Between all the sewing, sanding, varnishing, greasing, climbing up the mast, climbing up the mast some more, dropping tools in the water,...

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I have a bunch that I want to write about this month, but that'll all be in different posts. Just got back from Atmosphere Conf in Vancouver and settling into a false Brooklyn summer.

I read so much this month but have little to share here. Despite trying to keep a rich, diverse information diet, a lot of the articles blur into the same thing, and I've been reading too much on Instapaper. Saving articles for later is a powerful way to manage my time, but it produces a huge pile of content that I then feel obligated to work my...

Summary of changes for March 2026

Hey everyone!

This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.

We spent a big chunk of the month finishing up the new Donsol. Devine documented the development as part of a...

Movie Review: “The AI Doc”

Yesterday Dana, the kids, and I went to the theater to watch The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist, the well-reviewed new documentary about whether AGI will destroy the world. This was surely the weirdest family movie night we’ve ever done. Firstly, because I personally know probably half of the many people interviewed in the film, from Eliezer Yudkowsky to Ajeya Cotra to Liv Boeree to Daniel Kokotajlo to Ilya Sutskever to Jan Leike to Yoshua Bengio to Shane Legg to Sam Altman and Dario Amodei. But more importantly, because this is a documentary that repeatedly, explicitly,...

My theoretical computer science notes from Epsilon Camp

Last summer, I was privileged to teach a two-week course on theoretical computer science to exceptional 11- and 12-year-olds at Epsilon Camp, held at Washington University in St. Louis. The course was basically a shorter version of the 6.045 course that I used to teach to undergrads at MIT.

I was at Epsilon Camp to accompany my son Daniel, who attended a different course there, for the 7- and 8-year-olds. So they got me to teach while I was there.

Teaching at Epsilon was some of the hardest work I’ve done in years: I taught two classes, held...

Fight Polarisation with Creativity workshop

We live in an age of echo chambers and deepening divides but disagreement doesn’t have to mean disconnection. This workshop draws on The People Speak’s flagship Talkaoke talk show methodology to create a lively, structured space for navigating difficult conversations across difference.

Using creativity as our guide, participants explore opposing viewpoints, practice active and compassionate listening, and discover the common ground that so often goes unnoticed. Rather than avoiding controversy, we lean into it finding that the most interesting conversations happen precisely where perspectives differ.

No experience needed. Just curiosity,...

I haven't made anything with AT Proto yet

I haven't made anything with AT Proto.

Okay, technically, I did made the Bluesky ThinkUp Tribute, which syncs with your Bluesky account and sends a nightly email about who changed their bio or handle on the website. It's a great little utility and I rely on it constantly. But that doesn't integrate very deeply with AT Proto.

I've fallen into the cycle of reading about AT Proto but not building anything on it: a pattern that I want to break. I blame other priorities for my lack of weekend hacking - when I do get time and energy to computer on the...

My Dinner with Jeffrey

What the Epstein Files Reveal about Us All

See YouTube monologue here

I got a text from my daughter last week asking, “um…so why are you in the Epstein files?”

Cut to the chase, my name is in the CC field of emails from my former literary agent, who used to publish an online journal in which a bunch of scientists and thinkers would answer questions about the future. Like, “what should we really be worried about?” or “what scientific concept would improve everyone’s cognitive toolkit?” The agent would start by sending the question to a group of maybe thirty of us — people from Brian Eno,...

Summary of changes for February 2026

Hey everyone!

This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.

At the start of the month, we spent a delightful couple of days deep in the wintry and rainy Spanish countryside, gathered in a medieval monastery with the Ink...

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The snow has been tough for my running schedule in February but it's starting to clear and temperatures have started to lift. Yesterday got in a solid 45 miles of cycling, including up to this point near the George Washington Bridge, and back on the Tappan Zee.

I didn't add any new music to my collection this month. My Swinsian library has 15,562 tracks already so there's plenty to explore in the back catalog. I listened to The Private Press and The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly.

I did find a new podcast that I've been...