Boris Smus

interaction engineering

  1. ☆
    Livewired by David Eagleman
  2. ☆
    Monkey by Arthur Waley
  3. The pursuit of frictionless capture
  4. ☆
    Hard to Be a God by The Strugatskys
  5. Battle of Maldon & Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
  6. ☆
    Piranesi by Susanne Clark
  7. ☆
    Secret of our Success by Joseph Henrich
  8. ☆
    Math from Three to Seven by A. K. Zvonkin
  9. ☆
    Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
  10. ☆
    VALIS by Phillip K. Dick
  11. ☆
    The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
  12. Large and sometimes Oppressive Language Models (LOLs)
  13. ☆
    A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
  14. Horsing around with invention.cards
  15. Invention & Discovery Cards work complete
  16. ☆
    John Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louv
  17. ☆
    Use of Weapons by Iain Banks
  18. Unintended Consequences of False Equity
  19. ☆
    When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
  20. Seattle Public Schools accountability problem
  21. ☆
    Absolutely On Music by Haruki Murakami
  22. Neurobiology of We by Daniel Siegel
  23. ☆
    Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
  24. ☆
    Blindsight by Peter Watts
  25. Invention Cards enhanced by AI
  26. The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
  27. Visual Chronology of Science & Discovery 2.0
  28. ☆
    Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
  29. ☆
    A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
  30. Disappearance of Ritual by Byung-Chul Han
  31. ☆
    Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman
  32. ☆
    Mystery Teachings by J. M. Greer
  33. Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
  34. ☆
    David: The Divided Heart by David Wolpe
  35. ☆
    Every Life is on Fire by Jeremy England
  36. Telejam: Interplanetary Musical Ensembles
  37. ☆
    End of the World by Peter Zeihan
  38. Project Exupery
  39. Nine Links for Fall 2023
  40. Great Work Of Time by John Crowley
  41. ☆
    Letters to my Palestinian Neighbor by Halevi
  42. ☆
    Tales from the Ant World by E. O. Wilson
  43. ☆
    The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
  44. Tools for Thinking in Systems
  45. ☆
    This is How You Lose the Time War
  46. Five Links for Summer 2023
  47. Empowered by Cagan & Jones
  48. ☆
    Russian Revolutions by Mike Duncan
  49. ☆
    The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
  50. Five Links for Spring 2023
  51. ☆
    Boyd by Robert Coram
  52. Seven Links for Winter 2023
  53. ☆
    Medieval Robots by E. R. Truitt
  54. ☆
    Old Man's War by John Scalzi
  55. ☆
    The Sabbath by Heschel
  56. ☆
    Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips
  57. Links for November 2022
  58. ☆
    The Timeless Way of Building
  59. ☆
    The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile
  60. Links for October 2022
  61. Semantic Similarity for Note Taking
  62. ☆
    The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
  63. Links for September 2022
  64. ☆
    Wild Problems by Russ Roberts
  65. ☆
    Forever Flowing by Vasily Grossman
  66. ☆
    The Goal - A Business Graphic Novel
  67. Links for August 2022
  68. AI note garden: Dreamer, note collider
  69. The Secret Life of Groceries
  70. Links for July 2022
  71. ☆
    Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
  72. ☆
    Parables by Franz Kafka
  73. Links for June 2022
  74. Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
  75. ☆
    Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  76. Links for May 2022
  77. ☆
    The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
  78. ☆
    Genesis by ✨ translated by Robert Alter
  79. Links for April 2022
  80. Ministry for the Future
  81. ☆
    Grand Transitions by Vaclav Smil
  82. Links for March 2022
  83. Links for February 2022
  84. Links for January 2022
  85. Practical Doomsday by Michal Zalewski
  86. AI note garden: link suggestions
  87. ☆
    A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
  88. Article highlights of 2021
  89. AI note garden: summarizer
  90. ☆
    Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter
  91. ☆
    Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide
  92. ☆
    The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
  93. History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook
  94. ☆
    The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
  95. ABC by Illich and Sanders
  96. File Systems for Thought
  97. ☆
    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  98. ☆
    Gardener & Carpenter by Alison Gopnik
  99. ☆
    Late Middle Ages
  100. ☆
    Medieval Technology and Social Change
  101. ☆
    Understanding Complexity by Scott Page
  102. Diffusion of Literacy in 19th Century Canada
  103. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
  104. Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo
  105. ☆
    Emotional Life of the Toddler
  106. ☆
    High Middle Ages
  107. Thirteenth Tribe
  108. Evogami: evolution meets origami
  109. ☆
    Early Middle Ages
  110. ☆
    Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
  111. ☆
    How to Take Smart Notes
  112. ☆
    Thinking in Systems: A Primer
  113. ☆
    Sid Meier's Memoir!
  114. Article highlights of 2020
  115. ☆
    Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke
  116. ☆
    Dune by Frank Herbert
  117. ☆
    Night by Elie Wiesel
  118. ☆
    Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
  119. ☆
    Frank Herbert by Tim O’Reilly
  120. ☆
    Story of Us by Tim Urban
  121. ☆
    Rewiring America
  122. ☆
    Братья Карамазовы, читает Ульянов
  123. ☆
    Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
  124. ESUP Builders
  125. ☆
    The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  126. ☆
    Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
  127. Shadow of the Torturer
  128. DIY Community Library
  129. ☆
    Selected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick
  130. ☆
    Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
  131. ☆
    Lost Enlightenment by Frederick Starr
  132. ☆
    Debt: The First 5000 Years
  133. Revenge of Analog
  134. Visual Chronology of Science & Discovery
  135. The Circle by Dave Eggers
  136. Fatherhood in Pieces by Chabon
  137. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
  138. Books highlights of 2019
  139. Article highlights of 2019
  140. The Right It (audio)
  141. WebUSB, Arduino, and Nunchucks!
  142. The Name of the Wind (audio)
  143. ☆
    The Fiddler is a Good Woman
  144. ☆
    Range by David Epstein (audio)
  145. ☆
    Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud (audio)
  146. Toddler’s First Music Box
  147. Yes Brain by Siegel and Bryson
  148. Link's Awakening LEGO Mosaic
  149. ☆
    Diamond Age by Stephenson (audio)
  150. ☆
    Hyperion by Dan Simmons (audio)
  151. Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
  152. ☆
    Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery
  153. Palaces for the People (audio)
  154. ☆
    The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson (audio)
  155. ☆
    The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
  156. Avoiding local maximums
  157. Radical Markets by Posner and Weyl
  158. ☆
    Seeing Like a State by James Scott
  159. ☆
    Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  160. ☆
    The Story of Medieval England (audio)
  161. Real Estate and Cash Flow
  162. ☆
    The New Father
  163. ☆
    Tribe by Sebastian Junger
  164. 12 Rules for Life
  165. Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
  166. Reading in 2018
  167. ☆
    Infinite Planets
  168. ☆
    Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
  169. The Shape of Tomorrow by George Soule
  170. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  171. ☆
    The Fall and Rise of China (audio)
  172. ☆
    War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin
  173. ☆
    Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin (audio)
  174. Comparing classical music interpretations
  175. ☆
    Book of Why by Judea Pearl
  176. ☆
    Living the French Revolution (audio)
  177. Against retweets
  178. Make twitter great again?
  179. Lynched on Twitter
  180. ☆
    Tao of Philosophy by Alan Watts
  181. The difficult middle
  182. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
  183. ☆
    Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (audio)
  184. Required reading for VR enthusiasts
  185. You Belong to the Universe (audio)
  186. Balancing technological pessimism
  187. Unsong by Scott Alexander
  188. ☆
    Reason in Human Affairs by Herbert Simon
  189. ☆
    The Fourth Turning by Howe and Strauss
  190. How rationalists can win
  191. The Coffee-House: A Cultural History
  192. ☆
    Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
  193. Skin in the Game by Taleb (audio)
  194. ☆
    The Modern Political Tradition: Hobbes to Habermas
  195. ☆
    Scale by Geoffrey West
  196. Anthem by Ayn Rand
  197. ☆
    Impro by Keith Johnstone
  198. Web-based voice command recognition
  199. ☆
    The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang
  200. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos
  201. Audio features for web-based ML
  202. ☆
    My Russian Grandmother... by Meir Shalev
  203. UIST 2017 highlights
  204. ☆
    The neurochemistry of music
  205. Memento Mori
  206. ☆
    On the Shortness of Life
  207. ☆
    Stories of Your Life and Others
  208. ☆
    Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
  209. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
  210. A respectful truce?
  211. Filter playground
  212. The end of endings
  213. ☆
    Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand
  214. Intelligence, aliens, and self-improvement
  215. Convincing the inconvincible
  216. Climate metaquiz results
  217. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
  218. ☆
    Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  219. Viewpoint tolerance through curiosity
  220. ☆
    The Psychology of Curiosity
  221. Remembering my personal wiki
  222. Short posts using split Markdown
  223. Analogies from the industrial revolution
  224. Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
  225. ☆
    Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
  226. ☆
    Understanding Japan: A Cultural History (audio)
  227. ☆
    The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
  228. Debaters: friendly disagreement
  229. ☆
    The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
  230. ☆
    Deep Work by Cal Newport
  231. Headlines, meet sparklines: news in context
  232. ☆
    Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
  233. Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff
  234. Tools for making better decisions
  235. ☆
    The Futurological Congress by Stanislav Lem
  236. ☆
    On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi by William Tenn
  237. ☆
    Superforecasters by Phil Tetlock
  238. Front page blues
  239. ☆
    Why Teach Thinking by Jonathan Baron
  240. VR View 2.0: JavaScript API
  241. Election 2016
  242. ☆
    Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  243. Ray Input: WebVR interaction patterns
  244. ☆
    Future Babble
  245. I Am A Strange Loop
  246. ☆
    The Hedgehog and the Fox
  247. ☆
    Sapiens (audio)
  248. Copresence in WebVR
  249. ☆
    How to Actually Change Your Mind by Big Yud
  250. ☆
    Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
  251. The Persuaders (audio)
  252. ☆
    The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
  253. Must Mankind Repeat History's Great Mistakes
  254. ☆
    The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
  255. ☆
    Mother of All Demos
  256. ☆
    The One Minute Manager
  257. ☆
    Gantenbein by Max Frisch
  258. ☆
    Physics Beyond the Edge (audio)
  259. Inspirata: for what inspires you
  260. Browsing Wikipedia in VR
  261. ☆
    Great Ideas of Philosophy (audio)
  262. Three approaches to VR lens distortion
  263. How to Fail at Almost Everything by Scott Adams
  264. Art of Tidying by Marie Kondo
  265. Embedding VR content on the web
  266. ☆
    The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
  267. ☆
    A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
  268. Simulating wealth inequality
  269. ☆
    In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
  270. ☆
    Gateway by Frederik Pohl
  271. Sensor fusion and motion prediction
  272. ☆
    Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner
  273. The United States and the Middle East (audio)
  274. Hot bread: delicious or deadly?
  275. UbiComp and ISWC 2015
  276. Magnetic Input for Mobile VR
  277. Science and Human Values
  278. ☆
    Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahnemann & Tversky
  279. ☆
    Skeptic's Guide to American History (audio)
  280. Digital Signal Processing Coursera
  281. Site redesign, version five
  282. ☆
    Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception (audio)
  283. ☆
    John Napier - Hands
  284. Vernor Vinge - Rainbow's End
  285. Spatial audio and web VR
  286. Blue Mind
  287. Responsive WebVR, headset optional
  288. Web Sensor API: raw and uncut
  289. UIST 2014 highlights
  290. Spectrogram and oscillator
  291. Addressable apps
  292. The ebb of the web
  293. Remote controls for web media
  294. UIST 2013 highlights
  295. Responsive image workflow
  296. Ultrasonic networking on the web
  297. Easier link blogging
  298. Installable webapps: extend the sandbox
  299. Gestural music direction
  300. Web Audio book
  301. Really simple social syndication
  302. Interactive touch laptop experiments
  303. From VPS to static hosting
  304. Internet mashup of things
  305. Reusable JavaScript for MVC frameworks
  306. How the web should work
  307. Generalized input on the cross-device web
  308. Platform fertility: open for innovation?
  309. Let's get physical (units)
  310. New design
  311. Backbone and ember
  312. PDF conversion and client-side scraping
  313. A mobile web application tech stack
  314. Hybrid operating systems
  315. Stack Exchange question notifier
  316. UIST 2011 greatest hits
  317. Screen video capture for Chrome OS
  318. Loading large assets in modern HTML5 games
  319. Developing multiplayer HTML5 games with node.js
  320. Global chrome media keys with Key Socket
  321. Extending chrome developer tools
  322. OAuth 2.0 from chrome extensions
  323. Brazil trip
  324. Dynamic chrome extension icons
  325. Crunching numbers for the NHL finals
  326. Chrome developer tools cheatsheet
  327. Multi-touch for your desktop browser
  328. jQuery conference 2011
  329. From Wordpress to Hyde
  330. Chrome media keyboard shortcuts
  331. Chronos: Chrome browsing metrics
  332. SXSW LEGO MINDSTORMS hackathon
  333. Soundsourcing: the sound of the crowd
  334. CrowdForge: crowdsourcing complex tasks
  335. KML tours in Google Earth
  336. Tweetbacks in JavaScript
  337. WebIntent, an Android PhoneGap plugin
  338. jQuery mobile hacker news
  339. PhoneGap games in the Android Market
  340. Chrome extension for thesixtyone
  341. The best question answering sites
  342. An onslaught of mobile HTML games
  343. Instant search in 60 lines
  344. Stairs or elevator? Use bluetooth!
  345. Skip to skip: a running gesture
  346. Minimal business card design
  347. Android-powered mindstorms
  348. Prototyping with Wii remotes in python
  349. Nike+ hacking with python
  350. Jam Hunt: friendly jam sessions
  351. CHI 2010 poster
  352. Lightweight Wordpress on Slicehost
  353. Visualizing MTurk requesters
  354. Crowdsourcing code
  355. Crowdsourcing articles with mechanical turk
  356. Ubiquitous drums
  357. Arduino-nerf mashup
  358. New design
  359. Offline web apps on the iPhone
  360. Never delete your gmail account
  361. Plotting something radial
  362. Extending Google Wave terminology
  363. Generating guitar chord diagrams
  364. Carnegie Mellon University!?
  365. Guitar Unleashed
  366. Prettifying embedded YouTube
  367. Clean drag and drop upload in Safari
  368. iPhone car kit: roll your own
  369. Performance of canvas versus SVG
  370. iWork.com feedback
  371. I see dead CSS
  372. Musical mashups in pure JavaScript
  373. Moving day
  374. Robotic piano playback
  375. The sorry state of HTML mail
  376. Top 5 sessions of Web 2.0 Expo NY