Boris Smus

interaction engineering

  1. And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared by Genrikh Altshuller
  2. Incorruptible by Eric Ries
  3. Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman
  4. Good Inside by Becky Kennedy
  5. The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley
  6. Invention Cards 3.0: Stories
  7. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
  8. supernote-cli: pen, paper, and a pipe
  9. The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich
  10. Breath by James Nestor
  11. Definitely Maybe by The Strugatskys
  12. The Way of Man by Martin Buber
  13. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
  14. Alloy: a local-first AI workbench
  15. The Score by C. Thi Nguyen
  16. In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
  17. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  18. Local e-ink handwriting recognition with on-device VLMs
  19. The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han
  20. Livewired by David Eagleman
  21. Monkey by Arthur Waley
  22. The pursuit of frictionless capture
  23. Hard to Be a God by The Strugatskys
  24. Battle of Maldon & Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
  25. Piranesi by Susanne Clark
  26. Secret of our Success by Joseph Henrich
  27. Math from Three to Seven by A. K. Zvonkin
  28. Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
  29. VALIS by Phillip K. Dick
  30. The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
  31. Large and sometimes Oppressive Language Models (LOLs)
  32. A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
  33. Horsing around with invention.cards
  34. Invention & Discovery Cards work complete
  35. John Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louv
  36. Use of Weapons by Iain Banks
  37. Unintended Consequences of False Equity
  38. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
  39. Seattle Public Schools accountability problem
  40. Absolutely On Music by Haruki Murakami
  41. Neurobiology of We by Daniel Siegel
  42. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
  43. Blindsight by Peter Watts
  44. Invention Cards enhanced by AI
  45. The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
  46. Visual Chronology of Science & Discovery 2.0
  47. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
  48. A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
  49. Disappearance of Ritual by Byung-Chul Han
  50. Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman
  51. Mystery Teachings by J. M. Greer
  52. Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
  53. David: The Divided Heart by David Wolpe
  54. Every Life is on Fire by Jeremy England
  55. Telejam: Interplanetary Musical Ensembles
  56. End of the World by Peter Zeihan
  57. Project Exupery
  58. Nine Links for Fall 2023
  59. Great Work Of Time by John Crowley
  60. Letters to my Palestinian Neighbor by Halevi
  61. Tales from the Ant World by E. O. Wilson
  62. The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
  63. Tools for Thinking in Systems
  64. This is How You Lose the Time War
  65. Five Links for Summer 2023
  66. Empowered by Cagan & Jones
  67. Russian Revolutions by Mike Duncan
  68. The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
  69. Five Links for Spring 2023
  70. Boyd by Robert Coram
  71. Seven Links for Winter 2023
  72. Medieval Robots by E. R. Truitt
  73. Old Man's War by John Scalzi
  74. The Sabbath by Heschel
  75. Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips
  76. Links for November 2022
  77. The Timeless Way of Building
  78. The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile
  79. Links for October 2022
  80. Semantic Similarity for Note Taking
  81. The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
  82. Links for September 2022
  83. Wild Problems by Russ Roberts
  84. Forever Flowing by Vasily Grossman
  85. The Goal - A Business Graphic Novel
  86. Links for August 2022
  87. AI note garden: Dreamer, note collider
  88. The Secret Life of Groceries
  89. Links for July 2022
  90. Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
  91. Parables by Franz Kafka
  92. Links for June 2022
  93. Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
  94. Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  95. Links for May 2022
  96. The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
  97. Genesis by ✨ translated by Robert Alter
  98. Links for April 2022
  99. Ministry for the Future
  100. Grand Transitions by Vaclav Smil
  101. Links for March 2022
  102. Links for February 2022
  103. Links for January 2022
  104. Practical Doomsday by Michal Zalewski
  105. AI note garden: link suggestions
  106. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
  107. Article highlights of 2021
  108. AI note garden: summarizer
  109. Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter
  110. Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide
  111. The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
  112. History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook
  113. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
  114. ABC by Illich and Sanders
  115. File Systems for Thought
  116. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  117. Gardener & Carpenter by Alison Gopnik
  118. Late Middle Ages
  119. Medieval Technology and Social Change
  120. Understanding Complexity by Scott Page
  121. Diffusion of Literacy in 19th Century Canada
  122. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
  123. Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo
  124. Emotional Life of the Toddler
  125. High Middle Ages
  126. Thirteenth Tribe
  127. Evogami: evolution meets origami
  128. Early Middle Ages
  129. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
  130. How to Take Smart Notes
  131. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
  132. Sid Meier's Memoir!
  133. Article highlights of 2020
  134. Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke
  135. Dune by Frank Herbert
  136. Night by Elie Wiesel
  137. Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
  138. Frank Herbert by Tim O’Reilly
  139. Story of Us by Tim Urban
  140. Rewiring America
  141. Братья Карамазовы, читает Ульянов
  142. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
  143. ESUP Builders
  144. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  145. Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
  146. Shadow of the Torturer
  147. DIY Community Library
  148. Selected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick
  149. Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
  150. Lost Enlightenment by Frederick Starr
  151. Debt: The First 5000 Years
  152. Revenge of Analog
  153. Visual Chronology of Science & Discovery
  154. The Circle by Dave Eggers
  155. Fatherhood in Pieces by Chabon
  156. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
  157. Books highlights of 2019
  158. Article highlights of 2019
  159. The Right It (audio)
  160. WebUSB, Arduino, and Nunchucks!
  161. The Name of the Wind (audio)
  162. The Fiddler is a Good Woman
  163. Range by David Epstein (audio)
  164. Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud (audio)
  165. Toddler’s First Music Box
  166. Yes Brain by Siegel and Bryson
  167. Link's Awakening LEGO Mosaic
  168. Diamond Age by Stephenson (audio)
  169. Hyperion by Dan Simmons (audio)
  170. Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
  171. Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery
  172. Palaces for the People (audio)
  173. The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson (audio)
  174. The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
  175. Avoiding local maximums
  176. Radical Markets by Posner and Weyl
  177. Seeing Like a State by James Scott
  178. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  179. The Story of Medieval England (audio)
  180. Real Estate and Cash Flow
  181. The New Father
  182. Tribe by Sebastian Junger
  183. 12 Rules for Life
  184. Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
  185. Reading in 2018
  186. Infinite Planets
  187. Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
  188. The Shape of Tomorrow by George Soule
  189. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  190. The Fall and Rise of China (audio)
  191. War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin
  192. Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin (audio)
  193. Comparing classical music interpretations
  194. Book of Why by Judea Pearl
  195. Living the French Revolution (audio)
  196. Against retweets
  197. Make twitter great again?
  198. Lynched on Twitter
  199. Tao of Philosophy by Alan Watts
  200. The difficult middle
  201. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
  202. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (audio)
  203. Required reading for VR enthusiasts
  204. You Belong to the Universe (audio)
  205. Balancing technological pessimism
  206. Unsong by Scott Alexander
  207. Reason in Human Affairs by Herbert Simon
  208. The Fourth Turning by Howe and Strauss
  209. How rationalists can win
  210. The Coffee-House: A Cultural History
  211. Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
  212. Skin in the Game by Taleb (audio)
  213. The Modern Political Tradition: Hobbes to Habermas
  214. Scale by Geoffrey West
  215. Anthem by Ayn Rand
  216. Impro by Keith Johnstone
  217. Web-based voice command recognition
  218. The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang
  219. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos
  220. Audio features for web-based ML
  221. My Russian Grandmother... by Meir Shalev
  222. UIST 2017 highlights
  223. The neurochemistry of music
  224. Memento Mori
  225. On the Shortness of Life
  226. Stories of Your Life and Others
  227. Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
  228. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
  229. A respectful truce?
  230. Filter playground
  231. The end of endings
  232. Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand
  233. Intelligence, aliens, and self-improvement
  234. Convincing the inconvincible
  235. The Psychology of Curiosity
  236. Climate metaquiz results
  237. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
  238. Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  239. Viewpoint tolerance through curiosity
  240. Remembering my personal wiki
  241. Short posts using split Markdown
  242. Analogies from the industrial revolution
  243. Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
  244. Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
  245. Understanding Japan: A Cultural History (audio)
  246. The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
  247. The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
  248. Deep Work by Cal Newport
  249. Debaters: friendly disagreement
  250. Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
  251. Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff
  252. Headlines, meet sparklines: news in context
  253. Tools for making better decisions
  254. The Futurological Congress by Stanislav Lem
  255. On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi by William Tenn
  256. Superforecasters by Phil Tetlock
  257. Why Teach Thinking by Jonathan Baron
  258. Front page blues
  259. Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  260. VR View 2.0: JavaScript API
  261. Election 2016
  262. Future Babble
  263. I Am A Strange Loop
  264. Ray Input: WebVR interaction patterns
  265. The Hedgehog and the Fox
  266. Sapiens (audio)
  267. How to Actually Change Your Mind by Big Yud
  268. Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
  269. Copresence in WebVR
  270. The Persuaders (audio)
  271. The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
  272. Must Mankind Repeat History's Great Mistakes
  273. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
  274. Mother of All Demos
  275. The One Minute Manager
  276. Gantenbein by Max Frisch
  277. Physics Beyond the Edge (audio)
  278. Inspirata: for what inspires you
  279. Browsing Wikipedia in VR
  280. Great Ideas of Philosophy (audio)
  281. Three approaches to VR lens distortion
  282. How to Fail at Almost Everything by Scott Adams
  283. Art of Tidying by Marie Kondo
  284. Embedding VR content on the web
  285. The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
  286. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
  287. Simulating wealth inequality
  288. In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
  289. Gateway by Frederik Pohl
  290. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner
  291. Sensor fusion and motion prediction
  292. The United States and the Middle East (audio)
  293. Hot bread: delicious or deadly?
  294. Science and Human Values
  295. Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahnemann & Tversky
  296. UbiComp and ISWC 2015
  297. Magnetic Input for Mobile VR
  298. Skeptic's Guide to American History (audio)
  299. Digital Signal Processing Coursera
  300. Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception (audio)
  301. Site redesign, version five
  302. John Napier - Hands
  303. Vernor Vinge - Rainbow's End
  304. Spatial audio and web VR
  305. Blue Mind
  306. Responsive WebVR, headset optional
  307. Web Sensor API: raw and uncut
  308. UIST 2014 highlights
  309. Spectrogram and oscillator
  310. Addressable apps
  311. The ebb of the web
  312. Remote controls for web media
  313. UIST 2013 highlights
  314. Responsive image workflow
  315. Ultrasonic networking on the web
  316. Easier link blogging
  317. Installable webapps: extend the sandbox
  318. Gestural music direction
  319. Web Audio book
  320. Really simple social syndication
  321. Interactive touch laptop experiments
  322. From VPS to static hosting
  323. Internet mashup of things
  324. Reusable JavaScript for MVC frameworks
  325. How the web should work
  326. Generalized input on the cross-device web
  327. Platform fertility: open for innovation?
  328. Let's get physical (units)
  329. New design
  330. Backbone and ember
  331. PDF conversion and client-side scraping
  332. A mobile web application tech stack
  333. Hybrid operating systems
  334. Stack Exchange question notifier
  335. UIST 2011 greatest hits
  336. Screen video capture for Chrome OS
  337. Loading large assets in modern HTML5 games
  338. Developing multiplayer HTML5 games with node.js
  339. Global chrome media keys with Key Socket
  340. Extending chrome developer tools
  341. OAuth 2.0 from chrome extensions
  342. Brazil trip
  343. Dynamic chrome extension icons
  344. Crunching numbers for the NHL finals
  345. Chrome developer tools cheatsheet
  346. Multi-touch for your desktop browser
  347. jQuery conference 2011
  348. From Wordpress to Hyde
  349. Chrome media keyboard shortcuts
  350. Chronos: Chrome browsing metrics
  351. SXSW LEGO MINDSTORMS hackathon
  352. Soundsourcing: the sound of the crowd
  353. CrowdForge: crowdsourcing complex tasks
  354. KML tours in Google Earth
  355. Tweetbacks in JavaScript
  356. WebIntent, an Android PhoneGap plugin
  357. jQuery mobile hacker news
  358. PhoneGap games in the Android Market
  359. Chrome extension for thesixtyone
  360. The best question answering sites
  361. An onslaught of mobile HTML games
  362. Instant search in 60 lines
  363. Stairs or elevator? Use bluetooth!
  364. Skip to skip: a running gesture
  365. Minimal business card design
  366. Android-powered mindstorms
  367. Prototyping with Wii remotes in python
  368. Nike+ hacking with python
  369. Jam Hunt: friendly jam sessions
  370. CHI 2010 poster
  371. Lightweight Wordpress on Slicehost
  372. Visualizing MTurk requesters
  373. Crowdsourcing code
  374. Crowdsourcing articles with mechanical turk
  375. Ubiquitous drums
  376. Arduino-nerf mashup
  377. New design
  378. Offline web apps on the iPhone
  379. Never delete your gmail account
  380. Plotting something radial
  381. Extending Google Wave terminology
  382. Generating guitar chord diagrams
  383. Carnegie Mellon University!?
  384. Guitar Unleashed
  385. Prettifying embedded YouTube
  386. Clean drag and drop upload in Safari
  387. iPhone car kit: roll your own
  388. Performance of canvas versus SVG
  389. iWork.com feedback
  390. I see dead CSS
  391. Musical mashups in pure JavaScript
  392. Moving day
  393. Robotic piano playback
  394. The sorry state of HTML mail
  395. Top 5 sessions of Web 2.0 Expo NY