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On Keeping Your Hands Clean
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What follows is a 1,000-word essay on the value of being a beginner, written by a person who, when faced with actually being a beginner this week, behaved like a toddler being told it was bedtime.
I sho...
One Year Later
May 9, 2026 Note
Republishing this from a year ago. A few reasons.
One: it holds up. The book is largely forgotten, the cover-up is largely unpunished, and the review is still, I think, a fair accounting of what Tapper accidentally doc...
Zeno's WiFi Pass
Photo by 愚木混株 Yumu on Unsplash
Back in August, I wrote an essay called I Know A Guy, in which I predicted that the United States was Third Worldifying fast enough that the figure of the fixer — the person who, for a fee, knows how to move...
Birds Against Silence
I drew this American goldfinch over the past few days. Mixed media on Bristol, roughly 9x12 — mostly Caran d’Ache Luminance colored pencil, with some Ohuhu alcohol markers and acrylic paint pens worked in.
I’m pleased with him. The yellow...
A Nice Boring Walk With the Golden Retriever
Recently, on r/analytics, the subreddit for data scientists and data analytics more generally, someone wrote “We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I’m gonna throw up.”
What followed was the kind of ho...
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