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Category Archives: Personal Experience
Write Down Your Process
Previously: Help Us Find Your Blog (and others) Mark Rosewater is the lead designer of the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. This means he is part of Magic’s R&D department, one of the world’s few pockets of cooperation, sanity and … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook Sequence, Good Advice, Magic: The Gathering, Personal Experience, Uncategorized
Tagged Advice, Magic: The Gathering
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Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction
Epistemic Status: Minus One Million Points Shortness Status: Long (this is a proposed new norm I want to try out, in the sense of ‘apologies for writing a long letter, I did not have enough time to write a shorter … Continue reading
Posted in Death by Metrics, Economic Analysis, Personal Experience, Reviews
Tagged Analysis, Economics, Machine Learning, Personal Experience, Review
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How to Destroy Civilization
Epistemic Status: Parable. Can’t tell to what extent I am being serious but it’s not zero. I. Recently I made a huge mistake. At heart, I am a gamer. Playing games is fun and makes me happy, whereas not playing … Continue reading
Posted in Games Other Than Magic, Personal Experience, Uncategorized
Tagged Games, Personal Experience, Politics
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Meditations on Mexico City
As I begin writing this, I am on a flight back from Mexico City to New York (I finished the next morning back in the city). It has been a good one-week trip. Most of the time outside of the … Continue reading
Two Words That Offer Final Ultimate Proof That Medical System Is Evil
Music therapy. At the hospital, I have just learned, they offer Music Therapy. By music, I mean random folk singers with guitars. By therapy, I mean letting those folk singers sing, and play their guitars. And by offer, I mean … Continue reading
