Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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