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I read this - from Kazuo Ishiguro, on how he wrote "Remains of the Day" - once, and it resonated incredibly strongly. You can have 8 hours "free" every day, but if it's not well structured and predictable and in very large blocks, I get no significant creative work done

I have to be in Seattle end of February (for an Allen Institute thing)! As usual, I make time and I'd love to meet people or catch up with friends! Lmk if in town and want to meet up!

I’m spending this pre-teaching week just having looong science convos with my students (and nothing! nothing! nothing! else) and honestly, it’s the best week ever! 🥰🥰🥰

Also, we’re recruiting ;)

Go work with one of my favorite people in science!

🤩 lithub.com/the-peoples-he… “Sometimes the greatest games are those you play with other people’s toys. I hope readers get to experience even a fraction of the pleasure reading The Book of Elsewhere that I experienced in the writing—in the serious business of play.” :) I’ve

From ma.tt/2024/01/forty/:

Romanians started the international math olympiad, Yuhuai (Tony) Wu is smashing it

Happy 🩷 day from our cells! :)

Semi-back from my social media sabbatical. I have so much exciting new work that needs sharing! But first: I'm off to Vienna soon. What/who should I visit? Any recommendations of what is cool/interesting/fun/unique to do there?

Evolutionary graph theory beyond single mutation dynamics: on how network-structured populations cross fitness landscapes academic.oup.com/genetics/artic…

I, for one, am quite intrigued…Lets’s see! :)

My happy place :)

Serious play 🥰

Incredible post on ghibli images and Art by Scott Alexander “We gripe about how LLMs are destroying wonder, never thinking about how we’re speaking to an alien intelligence made by etching strange sigils on a tiny glass wafer on a mountainous jungle island off the coast of

A poem that took my breath away this week 🥰!

If you need to focus on one thing in any kind of intense way, manager's schedule (i.e., interruption-driven, meeting-driven, messaging-response-driven) is absolutely the kiss of death. It doesn't make you "less productive". It means you achieve none of your core focus. And this

The best science is similar. The best science doesn’t necessarily help us solve problems. Much more powerfully, it helps us formulate them correctly.