better doing

The Cynefin framework.

This framework offers five “domains” from which decisions are made: complex, complicated, chaotic, clear and confusion. In the clear context, for example, you want to apply best practices. But in the chaotic, where cause and effect are unclear, “Action—any action—is […]

tech, startups, internet

Interview with Sam Altman of OpenAI.

From How I Built This: “Sam talks about his journey from Stanford dropout and teenage entrepreneur to president of the legendary startup incubator Y Combinator and co-founder of the nonprofit OpenAI. Plus, Sam shares his hopes and fears for the […]

oh, Austin

Zilker park vision plan.

There’s a big park right next to downtown Austin called Zilker. The city has been soliciting community input for two years to create a vision for its restoration and future development. This is a video recap of the current plan. ~ learn […]

fun facts

Finally, an organism that eats viruses.

“For the first time, the team’s lab experiments have also shown that a virus-only diet, which the team calls “virovory,” is enough to fuel the physiological growth and even population growth of an organism.” ~ learn more

fun facts

The Overfitted Brain Hypothesis.

“The OBH posits that dreams are an evolved mechanism to avoid a phenomenon called overfitting. Overfitting, a statistical concept, is when a neural network learns overly specifically, and therefore stops being generalizable. It learns too well.” ~ learn more

fun facts

Breakout, a PDF experiment.

“Like many of you, I always thought of PDF as basically a benign format, where the author lays out some text and graphics, and then the PDF sits in front of the reader and doesn’t do anything.” That’s not the […]

on the blockchain

Generative art post-hype.

This is an article from April 2021 about generative art titled: “Punks, Squiggles, and the Future of Generative Media.” Mostly, generative art has been linked to NFTs thus a wild money-grab. But there is a thread there that goes back […]