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and I realized we’re actually all the same: strangers, smiling on a screen.

“In research,” said Tom Rivers, “you often need a person like [Harry] around, you know, someone … to encourage people to see what the grass is like on the other side. In other words, a catalyst. Harry Weaver performed that function beautifully.” ​ But it seems to me that we’d be doing a better job fighting COVID-19 if there were someone qualified who believed it was their job to solve it.

Carte Blanche is an emblem of conversation, an archive of the banter between paintings as I finish them. ​ Cinder Scaffold and Fever Dream explore the physical and proverbial momentum an idea needs to clear the gap between two canvases.

… “surreal.” It’s a word Americans often reach for when something destabilizes the ongoing-ness of daily life, when life seems “not itself.” This “life” almost always means “one’s role within the economy.” To be pushed into surreality in America is to suddenly notice the strangeness of one’s relationship to producing and consuming. One of surrealism’s clichés is that it is “the art of the dream.” It seems, now, as if a long dream has ended. Rather than pushed into the surreal, we have been for the first time in decades dislodged from the surreal.

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“The most effective way to diffuse collective action — and the sweeping, systemic changes it can spark — has always been to turn those who are suffering against one another,” Petersen writes. That is also a concise way of explaining what Ring cameras accomplish: They reject the possibility of collective action and embed “every person for themselves” ​ With social media, the reasonable desires for social recognition and tailored information metastasized into addictive use patterns and “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” ​ while the app can continually foreground a sense of the world is fundamentally dangerous.

Suddenly being forced to stay still

There is no going back. The only way out is through—past a turbulent spring, across an unusual summer, and into an unsettled year beyond. ​ Stockdale’s strategy, instead, was to meld hope with realism—“the need for absolute, unwavering faith that you can prevail,” as he put it, with “the discipline to begin by confronting the brutal facts, whatever they are.” ​ They undoubtedly raise privacy concerns, but as my colleague Derek Thompson argues, “Compared with our present nightmare, strategically sacrificing our privacy might be the best way to protect other freedoms.”

MacBook Aired! The first 200 of you who go to this link will get 20% your annual Brilliant subscription: https://www.brilliant.org/reneritchie Ian Cutress of AnandTech joins me to talk MacBook Air thermals! The new MacBook Air, an update the the 2018 redesign, got pretty good reviews when it came out a month ago. People liked the new keyboard, the new chipsets, and the lower price. But, there were a few criticisms as well. Basically, the still low-res webcam, some concerns about thermal throttling on the faster CPUs, and the battery life. Since then, I’ve had time to pound on the Magic keys, compare the web cam to pretty much everything else I have, really dig into the thermals, and there’s even been a macOS Catalina supplemental update. So, what if any difference does a month make? SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/reneritchie?sub_confirmation=1 SPECIAL THANKS: Patreon supporters who help make these videos possible: Aziz Rahman, Robert Simplicio, Ruben Flores, Philippe Bueche, Jared White Kyle Giglio, Scott Graham, Carl Simmons, Nick Florez, Michael Dreves, Sam Fingold, Front Page Tech, Sven Jasper, Clive Get access to exclusive Discord, previews, and the opportunity to see your name in the credits: https://www.patreon.com/reneritchie LINKS: Ian Cutress on Twitter: https://twitter.com/iancutress Ian Cutress on AnandTech: https://www.anandtech.com/author/140 Podcast (audio) version: http://reneritchie.libsyn.com/macbook-air-2020-review-one-month-later Blog (text) version: https://www.imore.com/macbook-air-2020-review-one-month-later REFERENCES Engadget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6g29Z-xFu4 Austin Evans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3JVxraJNdI Jonathan Morrison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzMdS7mnv10 Max Tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSgi2deRivc The Verge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWVqn2qc2ls Wall Street Journal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daqPLDDAntA MORE: Nebula: https://watchnebula.com/rene-ritchie Twitter: https://twitter.com/reneritchie Instagram: https://instagram.com/reneritchie Web: https://www.reneritchie.net Thanks for watching, see you next video!

But remote RC is working, and it includes most of the best parts of RC because it includes the most important part: kind, thoughtful, curious people who are committed to becoming better programmers together.

But you can tell a lot about a teacher by how they respond when students don’t succeed. Some will say, “What’s wrong with you?” Others will ask, “What’s wrong with me?” great teachers know three things: they know their subject, they know how to explain their subject, and they know their students. Knowing the history of a topic, the interesting problems, the common misconceptions, the multiple approaches, the links to other topics. And it’s about expert communication of all of that. They co-create educational experiences with their students because they realize that students hold key knowledge of their own that most don’t acknowledge or even recognize.

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Conway was arguably an extreme point in the convex hull of all mathematicians.

I want to make healthcare a place that people are excited about fixing, and step one of that process is just explaining to people what those problems are. I want to discover how to normalize meeting friends through the internet. Now my view is, “How can I find the right person to help me get through this obstacle?” I think simply spending time with people at your own career level that you think are high potential people and just staying near them and working with them on as many things as possible is the way to go. ​ I think a lot of people try to create a very manicured version of themself online, and then when you meet them offline, there’s this huge delta.

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If you’re in tech and wanna talk to one of the kindest, smartest folks I know, you can sign up for [Brian’s] office hours here. I just did.

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as I’ve been dealing with the situation at hand, I’ve found solace in making things.

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.

I've been collaborating on an exciting project for quite some time now, and today I'm happy to share it with you. There is a new topology book on the market! Topology: A Categorical Approach is a graduate-level textbook that presents basic topology from the modern perspective of category theory. Coauthored with Tyler Bryson and John Terilla, Topology is published through MIT Press and will be released on August 18, 2020. But you can pre-order on Amazon now!