As I write the code to add two product improvements to Out of Office Hours, I want to take a minute to document the changes and the thought behind

Isabel’s solution of pre-writing part of her talk and then filling in parts of it to give a more interactive feel was really excellent, and I plan to imitate it in the future.

and listening to the breathing of the woods and read until I fell asleep for several days ​ there are all kinds of loneliness, both necessary and unnecessary, the kinds we choose and the types that are foisted on us, varieties that come from heartbreak but also from freedom.

Anticipatory grief is that feeling we get about what the future holds when we’re uncertain. ​ If you feel the worst image taking shape, make yourself think of the best image. We all get a little sick and the world continues. Not everyone I love dies. Maybe no one does because we’re all taking the right steps. Neither scenario should be ignored but neither should dominate either. ​ We can — we should — stop at the first feeling. I feel sad. Let me go for five minutes to feel sad. Your work is to feel your sadness and fear and anger whether or not someone else is feeling something. ​ Emotions need motion.

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the journal’s acceptance would create a situation that is “historically unparalleled in mathematics: a claim by a well-respected journal that they have vetted the proof of an extremely well-known conjecture, while most experts in the field who have looked into this have been unable to understand the proof”.

Thinking about the future, at its best, is really just another way to process the present, and there’s never been a better time to do that. ​ but what’s increasingly obvious to me is how this crisis will decisively divide the world in two along many different axes. Some of those fault lines are obvious, and were already splitting open: at-risk or healthy; hourly or salaried; manual laborer or knowledge worker.

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You can’t help but wonder: if we’re forced for an entire year to forego the in-person benefits of these practices, what happens when life returns to normal? ​ It’s basic human nature to pursue positional scarcity, and to do whatever it takes to compete for it. The virus won’t change that.

(When's the last time this many people were forced to think about the same thing, all at once?)

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— crucial players keeping the engines of the city at a quiet hum.

What comes to mind when you read the word “graph”? Graph paper? Graphing calculator? High school math homework? Unfortunately, the word is overloaded with meaning, and none of the above are what a mathematician usually means when they say “a graph." They mean something like this.

The problem is Twitter is supposed to be an interest graph, but really it is just a people graph because you can’t follow interests on Twitter, you follow people.

The sky is open all the way. whose irrepressible birds can’t believe their luck this morning

kids just take it in stride. They’re constantly collecting new and surprising information, processing it, and promptly moving on with their new reality. ​ But being asked to explain each change to a 3 year old helps me feel ready to move on with each new reality.

I began 2020 without a home in New York.

Intentional serendipity is a motif at Oberwolfach. The institute works to minimize distractions from math and to remove any barriers to collaboration. No locks, restricted Wi-Fi, and meals served family style with seats assigned at random before lunch and dinner. ​ we’ve only just begun to explore, with landing parties here and there along the coast and a small number of successful excursions into the interior. ​ They listen as if they’re exploring dangerous new terrain and their lives depend on understanding each other. ​ nearly transcribing themselves in chalk as they went. ​ unspooled rows of symbols, ​ “Sometimes you don’t ask yourself the correct questions, but people can ask them for you,” she said. ​ But math is like everything else: To be successful you have to be able to communicate.”

footage from my Facebook Livestream on April 1st 2020 #stayhome #staysafe

But the things that make me me won’t change. I’m a Seattle guy who blogs and writes an open source RSS reader.

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This now page covers the things I’m thinking, feeling, and working on, well, right now.

but then life happened as it tends to do but not quite in the way that any of us could expect–except bill gates? ​ now it’s a company that you can still enumerate with 2 hands but then have to reuse those same hands about 30 times.

a layer of birds when the beetles hurry through dry grass hiding pieces of light they have stolen