Doing enterprise financial data visualization after data journalismMost of my work experience has had something to do with charts. I spent a couple years as a data journalist at a business magazine…Oct 2, 20192Oct 2, 20192
Where’s the Great American Driving Manual?I have been looking for this for a long time. Something less about compliance, more about quiet excellence in the ubiquitous craft. Not…May 27, 2019May 27, 2019
Published inKensho BlogA Day in the Life of TonyDon’t grind your teeth. Tony opens his eyes to the eggshell-white ceiling. Gray dawn light streams through the blinds on the one high…Jan 22, 20181Jan 22, 20181
Thinking out loud: Why are presidential elections so close to 50–50?OK so like what do I know but I feel like U.S. presidential elections are always weirdly close to 50–50. Maybe this is partially a bias due…Nov 18, 20172Nov 18, 20172
notes from a walk by the river at lunchguy in park playing “here comes the sun”, weather has finally turned nice in boston, i say “pathetic fallacy”…May 19, 2017May 19, 2017
Confess your unpopular opinion: Twitter is goodThe Twitter product is the best it’s ever been. The core timeline has evolved with discipline and deliberation and impressively little…Apr 10, 2017Apr 10, 2017
Published inBlockquotes28. A chapter that can be skipped by anyone who has no very high opinion of thinking as an…from Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1 (1930), translated by Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike (1995)Feb 5, 2017Feb 5, 2017
Published inBlockquotesConsciousness Not Necessary for Reasonfrom Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)Feb 5, 2017Feb 5, 2017
