Writing from before Artificial Smarts: engineering and organizations, tools and the command line, a little probability, and some unicycle physics.
A gentle introduction to the command line and the UNIX toolset, written for two teenagers.
Una guía para aprender a montar en monociclo siguiendo el método de Jack Halpern.
What prediction markets suggest about merging the ideas in a room full of people.
Building the libraries we lacked for inkjet algorithms, and making hard problems tractable by tinkering.
Working out Bayes' theorem by counting, with a diagram in place of a formula.
Putting a star map side project online, watching the first visitors arrive, and what it became.
Priming, fountain pens, and shaping the tools around you so they put you in the right frame of mind.
Plans for complex work read like roadmaps when they are guesses, and rigidity is what that costs.
How org-mode kept me current with twelve engineers across four projects at HP.
Deriving a unicycle's equations of motion to find out whether a large rider needs a large wheel.
What is the steepest slope a unicycle can climb? Working it out leads somewhere elegant.