Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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