progress begins with what you least want to do.

who comes to mind when you think of famously encyclopedic minds in the West? Russell? von Neumann? Chomsky? who else?

for me, it’s the poetic encyclopedists—Eco, Caillois, Warburg, Borges. the ones who blur the line between knowledge and imagination.

the Sam Altman × Jony Ive video is making waves

TED always nails it with guests. cutting-edge, not-yet-famous, future names. whoever curates that lineup has some serious radar.

the geometry emerging from matter as it self-organizes is always violently beautiful.

lately I’ve been drawn to Isadora Duncan and Italian Futurist dance.

sometimes the real courage is saying “actually, scratch that.”

A titan died today. Alasdair MacIntyre’s writings may not be familiar to everyone, but they reshaped the landscape of moral philosophy and showed us how attending to the thought of the past can help us find our way to a more flourishing future.

Views from the finish line of the #ICRA2025 Robot Parade!

Alasdair MacIntyre 😢 RIP dailynous.com/2025/05/22/ala…

Marvin Minsky and Stephen Wolfram walk into a bar. One orders synthetic consciousness. The other orders rulial space. They both say, "It's turtles all the way down." 🐢 Celebrating #WorldTurtleDay #WithWolfram writings.stephenwolfram.com/2016/01/farewe…

Madeline Gins: Infinite Systems - The Brooklyn Rail brooklynrail.org/2025/05/archit…

Marina von Neumann Whitman passed away on 20 May, aged 90. She had an incredibly rich and successful life, was as sharp as a tack and a lovely person to boot. Unable to attend her first-choice Princeton to do her PhD because the university did not admit women at the time, she

Saddened to hear. Truly a lovely and brilliant woman. Enjoyed having lunch with her in Concord, MA.

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