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Now that we have actually good AI, I have this vision of a form of computing that doesn’t involve me using a computer so much.

When I first started writing for a real publication, I taught myself “reporting” with a simple self-made curriculum unfolding over six or seven articles.

On podcasts it's pretty common to hear something like this: So Alexander Hamilton has just finished law school, and he's trying to make a name for himself.

The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat Hold'Em fatigue.

In 1963, the philosopher Edmund Gettier published a three-page paper in the journal Analysis that quickly became a classic in the field.

For years I’ve wanted a writing machine that would combine the best parts of a typewriter and a word processor.

The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it.

The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time.

If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie — like traveling through time to look over your own shoulder as you write.

The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose sense you're unsure of.