“you wake up every day feeling like you get to do this thing, that you chose it and it feels meaningful somewhere deep inside of you”

Claude Monet's garden paintings

Worth a read👇 "We live in an age of convenience but too much convenience leads to atrophy. We’re supposed to move and sweat and ache and struggle and strive. Society has sold us so many illusions... But we still have a choice." medium.com/@thejoevogel/w…

Amsterdam’s plan to remove 11,200 parking spaces from its streets by the end of 2025 is even more inspiring when we realize the kind of people-places that are possible where cars used to be. Example — #Amsterdam’s Elandsgracht between 2014 & 2019, via Thomas Schlijper’s great pics.

With seemingly endless progress in AI, I decided over the past few months to take a deep dive into the state of robotics 🤖, emerging trends, and research challenges. What do actual field-deployed robotic systems look like now? Will LLMs solve robotics? irom-lab.princeton.edu/wp-content/upl… 🧵

listening to listening to 1989 in 2014 1989 tv in 2023

lovely start to the weekend ☀️😊 thanks for hosting Adele Bloch !!

The world associates China with the urban metropolis at the risk of forgetting its wild and wildlife. It's the earth's 4th most biodiverse nation. The first piece from my new column with The China Project thechinaproject.com/2023/08/15/chi…

Some friends at Stanford and I started a newsletter for aspiring aerospace engineers—check it out & subscribe! 😊🚀

The Overview, an aerospace newsletter run by Maggie Wang and her hashtag#Stanford friends, somehow found my 2022 blog article and featured it on their website. Why should we still explore space despite all the problems on Earth? theoverview.org/p/why-we-shoul…