These are bits of writing that are often more opinionated than what you'll find in other parts of the site. They show what I thought before; not what I think today, nor what is to be thought.
- Sex Ed in Brookline, 2025
- On 'The End of Private Libraries'
- Reading a used book can be an intimate experience
- Awful words we use at work
- On dissolving honors classes
- Films my kids should see
- To my kids on AI
- Love and Beauty
- On 'the ad-free internet'
- The MFA's denuded logo
- Going to school on a military base is different
- Great thinkers newsletter: one month in
- How I organize my bookshelves
- A newsletter on who is talking about great thinkers.
- Graph database for books
- One-on-one's in the real world
- GitHub Copilot writes requirements
- An upside to these layoffs
- Reading a modern philosophy book
- Prayer at a Christmas party
- On memorizing
- A letter to an English teacher on chatGPT
- Gray skies
- Children should read old books too
- I see fewer ads than ever
- On hyperbole
- On happiness
- On the importance of being outside
- Too many books
- On counting books
- On being educated
- Who we are, as Americans
- A Framework for Thinking About Digital Health
- Quick thoughts on Fitbit Iconic + Flyer
- Our experience w/ Onshape
- What Comes Next for Wearables
- Please Don't Vote for Trump
- Google Can Beat Apple on Hardware
- On visualzing error
- Image analysis intro using python & opencv
- Mechanical engineers should learn python
- Computer Vision In Early Stage Product Development
- Building Adaptable CAD Databases
- Investing in Protomold?
- New vs. Perfect
- Are smartphones good?
- A quick thought on attention
- A Practical Case for Sustainable Product Design
- Thoreau on Product Design