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tactics that were not what they seemed", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2015/11/30/clever-chess-tactics-that-were-not-what-they-seemed/", "published_at": "2015-11-30T07:25:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4da134068", "title": "Report on my talk \"A gentle conceptual introduction to functional programming\"", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2015/10/07/report-on-my-talk-a-gentle-conceptual-introduction-to-functional-programming/", "published_at": "2015-10-08T03:25:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4da14aa02", "title": "Thoughts on learning that I have eaten English muffins wrong all my life", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2015/06/28/thoughts-on-learning-that-i-have-eaten-english-muffins-wrong-all-my-life/", "published_at": "2015-06-28T22:25:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4da8e3fcb", "title": "The importance of stalemate in chess: how chess is completely different from life", "url": 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"01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4dcc3d6b1", "title": "What unexpected life lessons have you learned from your father?", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2015/06/11/what-unexpected-life-lessons-have-you-learned-from-your-father/", "published_at": "2015-06-12T02:15:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4dd504607", "title": "Revisiting Bach's Air on G String, from a singing and dancing viewpoint", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2015/06/10/revisiting-bachs-air-on-g-string-from-a-singing-and-dancing-viewpoint/", "published_at": "2015-06-11T03:46:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4dd6e0428", "title": "Why I have never considered using a treadmill desk", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2015/06/10/why-i-have-never-considered-using-a-treadmill-desk/", "published_at": "2015-06-11T01:34:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4dd775272", "title": "The many faces of \"Stella by Starlight\"", "url": 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"01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4e3feab87", "title": "Why we decided to compile our own family cookbook", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/12/07/why-we-decided-to-compile-our-own-family-cookbook/", "published_at": "2014-12-08T00:46:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4e4fb70ef", "title": "Methodically Building An Endgame Fortress", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/12/04/chess-improver-methodically-building-an-endgame-fortress/", "published_at": "2014-12-04T05:00:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4e52f0824", "title": "Report on my final day of Stoic Week 2014: the view from above", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/30/report-on-my-final-day-of-stoic-week-2014/", "published_at": "2014-12-01T03:16:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4e5f886f4", "title": "Report on my sixth day of Stoic Week 2014: preparing for adversity", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/29/report-on-my-sixth-day-of-stoic-week-2014/", "published_at": "2014-11-29T23:37:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4e67309f2", "title": "Report on my fifth day of Stoic Week 2014: action and the reserve clause", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/28/report-on-my-fifth-day-of-stoic-week-2014/", "published_at": "2014-11-29T04:20:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4e72a05fc", "title": "Report on my fourth day of Stoic Week 2014: virtue and relationships with others", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/27/report-on-my-fourth-day-of-stoic-week-2014/", "published_at": "2014-11-28T02:47:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4e7667bbe", "title": "Report on my third day of Stoic Week 2014: self-discipline and Stoic simplicity", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/27/report-on-my-third-day-of-stoic-week-2014/", "published_at": "2014-11-27T16:03:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4e83dddde", "title": "Blockading To Defend When Things Get Tough", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/27/chess-improver-blockading-to-defend-when-things-get-tough/", "published_at": "2014-11-27T05:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4e8c9e3d6", "title": "Report on my second day of Stoic Week 2014: mindfulness", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/25/report-on-my-second-day-of-stoic-week-2014/", "published_at": "2014-11-26T04:50:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4e93fc89c", "title": "Report on my first day of Stoic Week 2014", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/24/report-on-my-first-day-of-stoic-week-2014/", "published_at": "2014-11-25T03:30:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4e97524ea", "title": "An American English dialect quiz correctly guessed where I originally grew up in the US", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/21/an-american-english-dialect-quiz-correctly-guessed-where-i-originally-grew-up-in-the-us/", "published_at": "2014-11-22T04:32:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4ea44b87b", "title": "Check out the unsanitized first edition of the Grimms' fairy tales finally translated into English", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/20/check-out-the-unsanitized-first-edition-of-the-grimms-fairy-tales-finally-translated-into-english/", "published_at": "2014-11-21T04:11:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4ea81dc4a", "title": "The Danger Of A King Out Of Play In The Endgame", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/20/chess-improver-the-danger-of-a-king-out-of-play-in-the-endgame/", "published_at": "2014-11-20T05:00:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4ea8eda2c", "title": "World Toilet Day is not just another crappy holiday", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/19/world-toilet-day-is-not-just-another-crappy-holiday/", "published_at": "2014-11-20T04:41:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4eaa415e7", "title": "On re-experiencing VHS tapes again", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/16/on-re-experiencing-vhs-tapes-again/", "published_at": "2014-11-17T02:27:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4eac2f2ae", "title": "Ransoms, hypocrisy, and bourgeois virtues", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/14/ransoms-hypocrisy-and-bourgeois-virtues/", "published_at": "2014-11-15T03:18:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4ebb28177", "title": "Anticipating The Endgame As Part Of Understanding The Opening", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/13/chess-improver-anticipating-the-endgame-as-part-of-understanding-the-opening/", "published_at": "2014-11-13T05:00:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4ec2aca6d", "title": "My predictions after Carlsen and Anand are tied after round 4 of the World Chess Championship", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/12/my-predictions-after-carlsen-and-anand-are-tied-after-round-4-of-the-world-chess-championship/", "published_at": "2014-11-13T04:01:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4ec9801cd", "title": "SorryWatch: good and bad apologies", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/12/sorrywatch-good-and-bad-apologies/", "published_at": "2014-11-13T03:27:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4ed3bc3c4", "title": "Happy 10th birthday Firefox! Thoughts on using Firefox, abandoning it, and returning to it again", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/10/happy-10th-birthday-firefox/", "published_at": "2014-11-11T01:09:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4ee25c5b1", "title": "Understand and use motivation contagion: everyone matters", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/09/understand-and-use-motivation-contagion/", "published_at": "2014-11-10T01:35:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4ee3575cd", "title": "Smart versus unpredictable people: whom do you prefer?", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/08/smart-versus-unpredictable-people/", "published_at": "2014-11-08T16:10:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4ee4f0090", "title": "My predictions and hopes for the 2014 Carlsen-Anand world chess championship rematch", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/06/my-predictions-and-hopes-for-the-2014-carlsen-anand-world-chess-championship-rematch/", "published_at": "2014-11-07T02:09:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4ee528033", "title": "When a computer algebra program gives wrong answers", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/06/when-a-computer-algebra-program-gives-wrong-answers/", "published_at": "2014-11-07T01:20:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4eee02555", "title": "The Art Of Attacking A Slightly Weakened King Side", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/06/chess-improver-the-art-of-attacking-a-slightly-weakened-king-side/", "published_at": "2014-11-06T05:00:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4efa7da95", "title": "The single greatest performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations: Pierre Hantaï with rhythmic drive and life", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/05/the-single-greatest-performance-of-bachs-goldberg-variations-pierre-hantai/", "published_at": "2014-11-06T03:32:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f05c43d2", "title": "Things look different from the perspective of the professional and the spectator", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/05/things-look-different-from-the-perspective-of-the-professional-and-the-spectator/", "published_at": "2014-11-06T03:10:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f11add2a", "title": "Some good science-based reading for Election Day, whether or not you voted", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/04/some-good-science-based-reading-for-election-day/", "published_at": "2014-11-04T20:41:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f1a2e689", "title": "Lessons to learn from pianist Dejan Lazić's attempt to remove a critic's bad review", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/02/lessons-to-learn-from-pianist-dejan-lazics-attempt-to-remove-a-critics-bad-review/", "published_at": "2014-11-02T22:25:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f2809f83", "title": "How I avoid demotivating myself away from voting", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/11/01/how-i-avoid-demotivating-myself-away-from-voting/", "published_at": "2014-11-02T02:11:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f320d2c0", "title": "Win ugly or lose pretty: do you agree?", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/10/31/win-ugly-or-lose-pretty-do-you-agree/", "published_at": "2014-11-01T02:53:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f3712ba0", "title": "The Chess Improver: The common problem of following a pattern without understanding it", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/10/30/the-chess-improver-the-common-problem-of-following-a-pattern-without-understanding-it/", "published_at": "2014-10-31T00:14:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f3963e0c", "title": "The Chess Improver: Learning through comparing similar but different situations", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/10/23/the-chess-improver-learning-through-comparing-similar-but-different-situations/", "published_at": "2014-10-23T11:13:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f39d3936", "title": "Climbing the Cathedral of Learning to get to the Harvard Classics", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/10/22/climbing-the-cathedral-of-learning-to-get-to-the-harvard-classics/", "published_at": "2014-10-23T03:12:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f426649e", "title": "The Chess Improver: Basic endgames teach how to tie together mathematics and logic", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/10/16/the-chess-improver-basic-endgames-teach-how-to-tie-together-mathematics-and-logic/", "published_at": "2014-10-16T11:10:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f51ccb72", "title": "The Chess Improver: The temptation to play safe can prevent improvement", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/10/09/the-chess-improver-the-temptation-to-play-safe-can-prevent-improvement/", "published_at": "2014-10-09T11:02:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f5592191", "title": "Pittsburgh Code and Supply: Making music with Overtone in Clojure; Conveying information through sound", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/10/07/pittsburgh-code-and-supply-making-music-with-overtone-in-clojure-conveying-information-through-sound/", "published_at": "2014-10-08T01:10:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f5987971", "title": "A pretty exploratory fall hike in Frick Park and Duck Hollow", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/10/05/a-pretty-exploratory-fall-hike-in-frick-park-and-duck-hollow/", "published_at": "2014-10-06T00:25:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f627e8fc", "title": "The Chess Improver: Your Pawn is threatened: do you defend, advance, or trade?", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/10/02/the-chess-improver-your-pawn-is-threatened-do-you-defend/", "published_at": "2014-10-02T11:02:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f67c5220", "title": "The Chess Improver: Accept the sacrifice if the alternative is to lose anyway", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/09/18/the-chess-improver-accept-the-sacrifice-if-the-alternative-is-to-lose-anyway/", "published_at": "2014-09-18T11:03:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f6d4bc39", "title": "Observing Constitution Day with \"The Supreme Court and Privacy: The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age\"", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/09/17/observing-constitution-day-with-the-supreme-court-and-privacy-the-fourth-amendment-in-the-digital-age/", "published_at": "2014-09-18T01:54:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f6d527a4", "title": "The Chess Improver: The difference between a Knight developed at c3 and at d2", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/09/11/the-chess-improver-the-difference-between-a-knight-developed-at-c3-and-at-d2/", "published_at": "2014-09-11T11:10:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f7c71e23", "title": "The Chess Improver: Fianchettoing your King's Bishop may weaken your c4-Pawn", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/09/04/the-chess-improver-fianchettoing-your-kings-bishop-may-weaken-your-c4-pawn/", "published_at": "2014-09-04T11:11:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f8aa2c8d", "title": "I just saw and heard the most amazing performance of Schumann's Fantasy for piano by Alexandre Moutouzkine", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/08/28/i-just-saw-and-heard-the-most-amazing-performance-of-schumanns-fantasy-for-piano-by-alexandre-moutouzkine/", "published_at": "2014-08-29T03:42:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f8e65821", "title": "The Chess Improver: What not to do if you have the isolated Pawn", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/08/28/the-chess-improver-what-not-to-do-if-you-have-the-isolated-pawn/", "published_at": "2014-08-28T11:11:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1c-72eb-99b7-eba4f9bd44f9", "title": "Discovering the beautiful keyboard playing of Robert Hill by accident on YouTube changed my life", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2014/08/21/discovering-the-beautiful-keyboard-playing-of-robert-hill-by-accident-on-youtube-changed-my-life/", "published_at": "2014-08-22T02:14:23+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2025

I'm back, after nine years!original ↗
27 Oct 2025

2016

The powerful e5 Pawn break against the Benoni: using it as White, neutralizing it as Blackoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2016
On finally achieving the US National Master chess title at age 45: part 1original ↗
23 Jan 2016
How the X-Files reminded me of the meaning of Martin Luther King Jr.original ↗
19 Jan 2016
If you were this old man playing chess against a young boy, what would you have done?original ↗
9 Jan 2016

2015

Accidentally discovering and performing some music by Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth: Coração que Senteoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 24: conclusion and thanksoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 23: Liquid Haskell: refinement types for the real worldoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 22: Shake: the dynamic build systemoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 21: hood, GHood, Hoed: observation oriented debugging in Haskelloriginal ↗
21 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 20: dimensional: type-checked computation on physical quantities with unitsoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 19: ghc-core-html, list-fusion-probe; checking GHC's fusion rewrite rules for erasing intermediate data from existenceoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 18: vector, vector-algorithms: unleash your inner C programmer!original ↗
18 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 17: ansi-wl-pprint: avoiding string hackingoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 16: safe; what is safety anyway?original ↗
16 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 15: IOSpec: testing IO; and some QuickCheck tricksoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 14: Earley: a promising newer parser library for Haskelloriginal ↗
14 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 13: hint: runtime eval for Haskelloriginal ↗
13 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 12: json-autotype: inferring types from dataoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 11: monad-loops: avoiding writing recursive functions by refactoringoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 10: s-cargot: using S-expression syntaxoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 9: Template Haskell goodies: here, interpolate, file-embedoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 8: multiset; I wish this were in the standard containers packageoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 7: semigroups; NonEmpty list and a case study of types and testsoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 6: finding utilities with Hoogle and Hayoo: MissingH, extraoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 5: should-not-typecheck: making Haskell sort of dynamically typed with deferred type errorsoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 4: wreq: Web client programming; with notes on lens and operator syntaxoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 3: HSpec; the importance of testingoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2015
24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 2: Regexes with pcre-heavy; standalone Haskell scripts using Stackoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2015
Haskell tidbits: 24 days of Hackage, 2015: day 1: Introduction and Stackoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2015
Clever chess tactics that were not what they seemedoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2015
Report on my talk "A gentle conceptual introduction to functional programming"original ↗
8 Oct 2015
Thoughts on learning that I have eaten English muffins wrong all my lifeoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2015
The importance of stalemate in chess: how chess is completely different from lifeoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2015
Aegis and Cook: what happens when an open source developer dies?original ↗
17 Jun 2015
How learning about the Magna Carta in high school changed my lifeoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2015
How Ornette Coleman changed my lifeoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2015
What unexpected life lessons have you learned from your father?original ↗
12 Jun 2015
Revisiting Bach's Air on G String, from a singing and dancing viewpointoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2015
Why I have never considered using a treadmill deskoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2015
The many faces of "Stella by Starlight"original ↗
1 Jun 2015
Yes, I want my writing to be dated!original ↗
1 Jun 2015
Why I switched from Octopress 2 to Hugooriginal ↗
31 May 2015
When did the United States stop being violently anti-Catholic?original ↗
25 May 2015
What happens when you donate your used clothing?original ↗
23 May 2015
Discovering the Eolina, a beautiful musical instrumentoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2015
How I forgot to meditate after sixty days in a row of remembering and what that meansoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2015
For Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: some black American voices that spoke to me recentlyoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2015

2014

Why I stopped saying something is easy or something is hardoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2014
How to think about Rust ownership versus C++ unique_ptroriginal ↗
21 Dec 2014
Remembering over 20 years of reading Dr. Dobb's Journal even till todayoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2014
Thoughts on giving up an old project to make room for the neworiginal ↗
16 Dec 2014
Thoughts on Cuba while watching Cuban musicians performing the 1947 bolero "La gloria eres tú"original ↗
14 Dec 2014
A Reminder About The Strengths And Limitations Of Chess Enginesoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2014
Why we decided to compile our own family cookbookoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2014
Methodically Building An Endgame Fortressoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2014
Report on my final day of Stoic Week 2014: the view from aboveoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2014
Report on my sixth day of Stoic Week 2014: preparing for adversityoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2014
Report on my fifth day of Stoic Week 2014: action and the reserve clauseoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2014
Report on my fourth day of Stoic Week 2014: virtue and relationships with othersoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2014
Report on my third day of Stoic Week 2014: self-discipline and Stoic simplicityoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2014
Blockading To Defend When Things Get Toughoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2014
Report on my second day of Stoic Week 2014: mindfulnessoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2014
Report on my first day of Stoic Week 2014original ↗
25 Nov 2014
An American English dialect quiz correctly guessed where I originally grew up in the USoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2014
Check out the unsanitized first edition of the Grimms' fairy tales finally translated into Englishoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2014
The Danger Of A King Out Of Play In The Endgameoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2014
World Toilet Day is not just another crappy holidayoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2014
On re-experiencing VHS tapes againoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2014
Ransoms, hypocrisy, and bourgeois virtuesoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2014
Anticipating The Endgame As Part Of Understanding The Openingoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2014
My predictions after Carlsen and Anand are tied after round 4 of the World Chess Championshiporiginal ↗
13 Nov 2014
SorryWatch: good and bad apologiesoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2014
Happy 10th birthday Firefox! Thoughts on using Firefox, abandoning it, and returning to it againoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2014
Understand and use motivation contagion: everyone mattersoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2014
Smart versus unpredictable people: whom do you prefer?original ↗
8 Nov 2014
My predictions and hopes for the 2014 Carlsen-Anand world chess championship rematchoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2014
When a computer algebra program gives wrong answersoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2014
The Art Of Attacking A Slightly Weakened King Sideoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2014
The single greatest performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations: Pierre Hantaï with rhythmic drive and lifeoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2014
Things look different from the perspective of the professional and the spectatororiginal ↗
6 Nov 2014
Some good science-based reading for Election Day, whether or not you votedoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2014
Lessons to learn from pianist Dejan Lazić's attempt to remove a critic's bad revieworiginal ↗
2 Nov 2014
How I avoid demotivating myself away from votingoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2014
Win ugly or lose pretty: do you agree?original ↗
1 Nov 2014
The Chess Improver: The common problem of following a pattern without understanding itoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2014
The Chess Improver: Learning through comparing similar but different situationsoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2014
Climbing the Cathedral of Learning to get to the Harvard Classicsoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2014
The Chess Improver: Basic endgames teach how to tie together mathematics and logicoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2014
The Chess Improver: The temptation to play safe can prevent improvementoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2014
Pittsburgh Code and Supply: Making music with Overtone in Clojure; Conveying information through soundoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2014
A pretty exploratory fall hike in Frick Park and Duck Holloworiginal ↗
6 Oct 2014
The Chess Improver: Your Pawn is threatened: do you defend, advance, or trade?original ↗
2 Oct 2014
The Chess Improver: Accept the sacrifice if the alternative is to lose anywayoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2014
Observing Constitution Day with "The Supreme Court and Privacy: The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age"original ↗
18 Sept 2014
The Chess Improver: The difference between a Knight developed at c3 and at d2original ↗
11 Sept 2014
The Chess Improver: Fianchettoing your King's Bishop may weaken your c4-Pawnoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2014
I just saw and heard the most amazing performance of Schumann's Fantasy for piano by Alexandre Moutouzkineoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2014
The Chess Improver: What not to do if you have the isolated Pawnoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2014
Discovering the beautiful keyboard playing of Robert Hill by accident on YouTube changed my lifeoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2014
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