Tanuj

But this leaves me wondering: why is this so rare? How did we get to a place where genuinely caring for those around you is perceived as "special"? Why do we starve each other of compassion and support?

We counter existential dread with optimistic nihilism.

“Histography" is interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015.

This is a living library of shapeshifting verses, created by the verses community because we wanted to explore mediums for software poetry.

Another way to see that noticing the right details is hard, is that different people end up noticing different details.

In the course of learning about the flavor, chemistry and textures of meat and so forth, we know quite a lot about the difference between pork and beef. And we know other meats from animals, so to speak, where you set the knobs with respect to the flavor chemistry. And we can navigate that whole space. We can create things that would be unmistakabl... See more

my app doesn’t need a login system. It doesn’t need an interface to create and manage contacts. It already knows exactly who’s using it. (This makes me think about an old blog post by Clay Shirky: “Situated software, by contrast, doesn’t need to be personalized — it is personal from its inception.”)