Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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