Profiling Dan Dennett was one of the peak experiences of my life. It wasn't just that his thinking changed mine, but that he was an inspiring human being, full of curiosity, vitality, and creativity. We should all try to be a little more like Dan. newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…

I owe my career at The New Yorker to Michael Agger, who accepted a pitch from me more than a decade ago when I was just starting to make my way in journalism. He’s been a wonderful mentor and friend ever since, and is one of the best editors in the business.

I will never recover from this student email.

David Attenborough is now narrating my life

Here's a GPT-4-vision + ElevenLabs python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth:

In the The New Yorker, I profiled Geoff Hinton, the “godfather of A.I.” He's a thoughtful, rational, emotional, humane, and very “human” genius—and he’s worried about what A.I. might become. “It started as one thing, and it’s become something else.” newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Ted Chiang has the best way to think about ChatGPT: newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…

Yes yes yes, thank you Joshua Rothman !!

Virginia Woolf’s Idea of Privacy newyorker.com/books/joshua-r… via The New Yorker

In this week’s issue of the The New Yorker, I write about my expedition to Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica with an extraordinary group of scientists. It’s a long read at 7,500 words, filled w/unbelievably cool people doing hard work at one of the most forbidding places on Earth. 1/🧵

Are you the same person you've always been? Or have you changed dramatically through life?

As I learned while writing this piece for The New Yorker, people have strong, divergent views about this question!
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This is almost too much to process, but very important to do so

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How can you take better family photos? How can you better appreciate the photos you have? If you take photos of your family, you'll love this piece, which combines decades of practical wisdom with a tour of family photography through the decades.
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“Looking is about giving yourself time to feel”: a beautiful piece on how to scroll your camera roll and find the masterpiece photos you’ve taken but ignored. newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

What’s it really like inside our cells? Read James Somers on the goopy, crowded, vibrating worlds within us, which we now know are governed by a collection of “unintuitive physical laws.”
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For the The New Yorker, I profiled Kim Stanley Robinson, whose book “The Ministry for the Future” offers a timeline for how we’ll fight climate change over the next thirty years. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

12 years ago, David Rohde and his interpreter, Tahir Luddin, were kidnapped by the Taliban. After 7 months, Tahir helped them escape. He's now a US citizen. For months, David Rohde has been trying to help him bring his wife and children to the U.S. newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

I wrote about rationality, rationalism, and the 'rationality community' (in which I am a longtime lurker) for The New Yorker.

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Please, please don’t say you don’t have the TIME to read this marvelously provocative, eye-opening, mind-bending essay. You’re just gonna have to make time to read it — and then read it again. Trust me on this!
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