Behind the Keynote: Joy, Productivity, and Profit
Brian CarterI help people build systematic approaches to problems that feel unsolvable. And I'm really freaking funny.
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I Graded 60 Jokes My Machine Wrote. The Funny Ones All Had One Thing In Common.
A machine I built writes jokes. I have spent twenty years finding out whether a joke works the other way, which is to say in front of strangers, at night, with no way to take it back. So I read sixty of the machine’s and marked each one ali...
AI Helped Me Fix My Dryer
I admit, I’m weird- I like “do it yourself” stuff. I like learning new things. I love a challenge.
More than anything, I’m stubborn.
When my wife told me we needed a new dryer, it was late, and I didn’t want to talk about it.
The next...
Sixty Seconds of Nothing... is Everything
Yesterday in a keynote, I asked several hundred school teachers to sit and do nothing for 60 seconds.
When I was planning this, I thought, “This could go great or it could go horribly. Maybe they won’t even do it! Maybe this is a bad idea!...
Only 20-35% of People Ever Really Change
Here’s the question I wanted answered: when someone says “I’m going to become a different person” — alcoholic to sober, lazy to fit, blamer to owner — how often does it actually stick?
I went looking for one clean statistic. It doesn’t exi...
Claude Code Is a Horrible Scientist
I had Claude report on our 9 months of programming together, trying to run quantitative finance tests and be scientifically rigorous - which also was many, many hours of frustration, and almost completely giving up last week.
You might wan...
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