In the future, we will routinely employ some product that will probably be called Microsoft MyLife (1) to manage our reading, news, entertainment and shopping. What will it do? Let’s start with the present and build forwards. For my money, amazon.com is the best site in the business. It takes the only shopping activity I […]
All blog posts Data science Sanity checks as data sidekicks. Organizing knowledge A long time ago, I wrote my own note-taking software. This got me thinking a lot about how we organize knowledge on computers. We want to tag things, and for those tags to have their own hierarchy. (also) Wouldn’t it be great if our […]
[Thanks to Stephen Hartley-Brewer for the kernel of this idea] My brother is my musical weather vane, my song-canary who knows what’s good long before the rest of the world has cottoned on, and points out the things I’ll like. I treasure his advice, partly because it’s good, and partly because it comes from him. […]
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