What can we learn about AI from the rare children who grew up untouched by human language or society?

A collection of essays and thoughts about time from a diverse group of educators, thinkers, activists, makers and philosophers.

Two articles about matter and life have been on my mind for a while. The first is Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth, in Quanta magazine. The second is this article in Nature, Glo…

Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality

This essay is a companion piece to an episode of Radiolab, titled The Interstitium. You don’t need to have heard it for this essay to make sense, but

To my great surprise, young people now somewhat frequently contact me in order to solicit career advice.They are usually in college or highschool, and want to know what the best next steps are for a career in security or software development.This is, honestly, a really complicated question, mostl...

I used to think of resourcefulness as a kind of practical intelligence, but I’ve recently started thinking of it as a combination of an energy state, an attitude, and an unexamined philosophy…

The love life of a 1960s Czech doctor offers invaluable career advice for 2020.

Life is unpredictable. Brace yourself with a suite of coping mechanisms, internal and external, then deploy them flexibly