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2023

If you want to get a better understanding of generative AI, it pays to see what the New York Times and Bloomberg are up tooriginal ↗
1 May 2023
It’s Summer! It’s Winter! It’s April in Canada! Here’s my highlights and ramblings for April 2023 year (a newsletter, in blog form)original ↗
30 Apr 2023
I thought these three designs were very cooloriginal ↗
29 Apr 2023
A good reminder for the start of the weekendoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2023
It’s a short life, and the older you get, the shorter it gets. However…(some birthday thoughts)original ↗
27 Apr 2023
A plethora of good links on AIoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2023
How I am playing Wordle these days using Wordlebot as a guide and an opponent :)original ↗
25 Apr 2023
How to get better sleep using your Apple Watch and the Health apporiginal ↗
24 Apr 2023
On pleasure, happiness, and optimismoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2023
On the snowdrops in the yards of othersoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2023
Friday fitness links (April 2023 edition)original ↗
21 Apr 2023
How to travel in style and do it lightlyoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2023
On Bourgeois, Wiley, Grosz, and more. (Art news, April 2023)original ↗
19 Apr 2023
Some thoughts on learning to appreciate Instagram as a recording mediaoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2023
My first year of the pandemic as told in Instagram storiesoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2023
New York stories and snippets (April 2023)original ↗
16 Apr 2023
Should we grow a victory garden for the war on COVID?original ↗
16 Apr 2023
A love letter for the Pennsylvania hotel in NYC and the two-letter phone exchange (PE 6-5000)original ↗
15 Apr 2023
Happy Friday! Have a lovely weekendoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2023
Thursday is a good day to be productive. A playlist can helporiginal ↗
13 Apr 2023
The profiles (beat-sweeteners?) of Sam Altmanoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2023
So you want to stop shopping at Loblaw and you need an alternative but you are stuck. Here’s what you can dooriginal ↗
11 Apr 2023
The Gartner Hype Cycle: one good way to think about technological hypeoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2023
A good collaboration: Ikea and Marimekkooriginal ↗
9 Apr 2023
Soups and salads and sandwiches too. (Some of my cooking interests since May, 2022)original ↗
8 Apr 2023
On the empathy of ratsoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2023
All social media companies are bad, but some are successful. (Social media roundup, April 2023)original ↗
6 Apr 2023
On Kazuo Ishiguro’s Top 10 film picksoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2023
Running light without overbyte: lightweight web sites are a good way of getting caught up quickly without the bloat of video, javascript and more (less is more)original ↗
4 Apr 2023
A handy guide to spotting AI generated imagesoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2023
I started tracking a group of users to see if Twitter usage was declining and twitter was dying… I was surprised by what I foundoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2023
Who knows how to clean an oven? Southerners dooriginal ↗
2 Apr 2023
Remember the billionaire space race?original ↗
1 Apr 2023
Love in the time of cholera? No, shockwaves in the time of COVID (thoughts and ramblings, March 2023 edition of my not-a-newsletter newsletter)original ↗
31 Mar 2023
Two exciting new things from Appleoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2023
Who’s excited about the restored 4K version of Stop Making Sense?! This guy!!original ↗
29 Mar 2023
More reasons why ChatGPT is not going to replace codersoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2023
I asked ChatGPT to do my job and write some code to built out some cloud infrastructure. How did it go?original ↗
27 Mar 2023
The biOrd Air60 Terrarium is a very cool way to add plants to your placeoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2023
Paul Kedrosky & Eric Norlin of SKV know nothing about software and you should ignore themoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2023
I eye, You eye , We all scream for AI (What I find interesting in AI, Mar. 2023)original ↗
24 Mar 2023
Will AI tools based on large language models (LLMs) become as smart or smarter than us?original ↗
23 Mar 2023
Are AI and ChatGPT the same thing?original ↗
22 Mar 2023
What is AI Winter all about and why do people who’ve worked in AI tend to talk about it?original ↗
21 Mar 2023
What is the AI effect and why should you care?original ↗
20 Mar 2023
On Barney Frank and Isaac Chotiner toooriginal ↗
19 Mar 2023
An odd piece on SNL from GQoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2023
The best pinot grigio is pinot grisoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2023
On Shrinking, and some thoughts on my limited return to TVoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2023
A reminder of how great WiReD magazine was, and how often wrong it was….original ↗
16 Mar 2023
On Canadian art forgeries, now and thenoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2023
How good is the repairable phone from Nokia?original ↗
14 Mar 2023
Happy Monday! Would you like to be more productive, more focused, and communicate well?original ↗
13 Mar 2023
How can the best white paint colours for 2023 not include cloud white?? :)original ↗
12 Mar 2023
How to improve yourself this weekendoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2023
If you want to keep track of the COVID-19 Wastewater Signal in Ontario, bookmark thisoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2023
What is cool? How about this 20-Story Hotel in Sweden Is Made Almost Entirely from Wood?original ↗
9 Mar 2023
On restaurants now, and thenoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2023
What’s better than a well made chair? How about one that’s made sustainably?original ↗
7 Mar 2023
No, prompt engineering is not going to become a hot job. Let a former knowledge engineer explainoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2023
More on the indigenous people in Canada (winter 2023)original ↗
5 Mar 2023
Flaco the Owl! A free bird in New York….original ↗
4 Mar 2023
Some thoughts on Palm and the rise of the handheld computeroriginal ↗
3 Mar 2023
On Lent, Sacrifice, and Giving Things Uporiginal ↗
2 Mar 2023
On gaining an appreciation for Londonoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2023
In the time of New Normal, here are some thoughts on where we are and the usual ramblings at month end (i.e. the Feb 2023 edition of my not-a-newsletter newsletter)original ↗
28 Feb 2023
A quick peek on what Philippe Starck is up tooriginal ↗
27 Feb 2023
How great Japanese artists can make you better at art (and much more)original ↗
26 Feb 2023
It’s Saturday. Here’s a handful of good pieces on great artistsoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2023
Things I can’t live without – Bernie Michalik editionoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2023
Crime stopper tips if you are buying goods from Kijiji or Facebook Marketplaceoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2023
The grimness of being a veterinarianoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2023
The Louvre’s Mona Lisa problemoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2023
Two good pieces on two good pieces from IKEAoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2023
Be more than your role(s) in lifeoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2023
On blogging/writing online in 2023 (how I write now)original ↗
19 Feb 2023
Everything old is new again, musically (think Sony Walkmans, for one)original ↗
18 Feb 2023
That 70s music post. On Harry Styles, Yacht Rock, and moreoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2023
What’s new in Toronto?? Ha! (Feb 2023 edition)original ↗
16 Feb 2023
On Fake quitting, real layoffs, and worker unhappinessoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2023
On Cup of Jo, Paul Simon, the arc of a love affair, and how everyone can see your blown apartoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2023
Fake beaches! Fake lawyers! ChatGPT! and more (what I find interesting in AI, Feb 2023)original ↗
13 Feb 2023
On the importance of down/transition days during vacationoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2023
For people whose mental health affects their home’s cleanliness (and vice versa)original ↗
11 Feb 2023
Short Novels To Stay Up All Night Reading (Hey you can sleep in tomorrow)original ↗
10 Feb 2023
My notes and tips on travel before the pandemic, during the pandemic and now in 2023original ↗
9 Feb 2023
The rise and fall of the iPodoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2023
Emily is in Paris…why aren’t you?original ↗
7 Feb 2023
You had a month. Here’s the 13 work tips you now need.original ↗
6 Feb 2023
Is El = Yahweh, and other links for amateur Biblical scholarsoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2023
Whatever happened to Pascal (the programming language)original ↗
4 Feb 2023
It’s Lisa’s 40th birthday. Let’s celebrate!original ↗
3 Feb 2023
All the exciting things happening in space in 2023. Read this and mark your calendar!original ↗
2 Feb 2023
The crucial fact to remember when it comes to Debt Ceiling discussions in the USAoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2023
Some very good thoughts (especially at the end) and the usual ramblings on a new year (i.e. the January 2023 edition of my not-a-newsletter newsletter)original ↗
31 Jan 2023
Having a bad day? Everyone has them. Even the greats, like Darwinoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2023
Not your average bungalow! Here’s the top 10 cabins to get away tooriginal ↗
29 Jan 2023
A very fine travel guide to Montrealoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2023
Why your next dinner party should be un apéro dînatoireoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2023
On the inscrutable oddness of Matt Yglesiasoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2023
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