A System For Email Productivity.

How to Tell If You’re a Jerk.

Here’s something you probably didn’t do this morning: Look in the mirror and ask, am I a jerk? It seems like a reasonable question.

Can retrocausality solve the puzzle of action-at-a-distance?

Taming the quantum spook.

Reconciling Einstein with quantum mechanics may require abandoning the notion that cause always precedes effect.

Best quote:

Bell didn’t see the difference between the two proposals, and threw out the retrocausal baby with the superdeterminist bathwater.

Blog more, y’all.

Hey newbie open source contributors: please blog more.

It’s more than just “teach kids to code”.

(…) if we can show a whole generation of young people that technology and computer science can be one of the tools they use to pursue their passions, and amplify their impact on the world, we’ll have made a worthy addition to the canon of material that students use as a basis for their life’s work.

Title misleading.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Was the Myth We Needed to Save Our Oceans.

Probably wrong on some levels, but nevertheless a thorough and analytic effort.

The great question of the 21st century: Whose black box do you trust?

Agatha Christie on how her lack of education and childhood boredom led her to write.

It’s Time to Put an End to Bikeway “Band-aids”.

Damn you social hate media!

I’m a verified Twitter user with 11k followers. Here’s why I’m quitting the site.