Functionally Imperative

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2023 in review

Thinking Through Cryptographic Hash Collisions

The FISA Reform that wasn't

The Power of the Gedankenexperiment

Beauty in Brevity

a little nonsense now and then

Protect Your Creative Energy

Why you should care about Kyber and the NIST

NetLogo: A Hidden Gem in Computational Simulation

constraints and creativity.

Budgeting for Focus

Yes, and.

Play for growth.

Reflections on turning 40.

Playdate: a love letter to constraints

Clear is better than clever.

Thinking clearer with pen and paper

What skateboarding taught me about failure

One step back, two steps forward.

Unraveling Assumptions: a Story on Framing

The Creative Act and the Tao Te Ching

Contingency Plans: What can we learn from our friends in HAM radio?

The bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction.

Gratitude, Vulnerability and Growth

Cultivating Deus Ex Machina

The Case for Strategic Laziness

Tinkering with Entropy

Unpacking Postel's Law

Shannon's Ultimate Machine

Book Review: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

How I DOSed this newsletter.

Coin flips and most significant bits.

When trying to make things better also makes things worse.

Rekindling the Joy: Why Adults Should Make Time for Mindful Play

New Rule: Commit to posting weekly

A Youtube Shorts Experiment

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