Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

Recent

Goodhart’s Law: Something can be a metric or a goal, but not both

2024-06-12
All the Magic

2024-06-11
More Luck Than Sense

2024-06-10
Things That Don’t Work

2024-06-09
Project Hail Mary

2024-06-08
The Purpose of Poetry

2024-06-07
Two Very Good Movies

2024-06-06
A Tall Ship

2024-06-05
Hair-raising Haircuts

2024-06-04
Devouring Time

2024-06-03

Notable

An Old and Wild Absurdity: We keep making the wrong assumptions about evolution

2026-02-04
Silent Night, Silently: Singing in sign language

2025-12-22
Facts About Americans: Quirkier than you think

2025-11-18
One Argument is Better than Two: The case for honest arguments

2025-11-02
Three Days by the Lake: Car camping in the Sierras

2025-09-24
Brixton: On moving to London when I turned 18

2024-12-06
I Put My Toaster in the Dishwasher: It was fine

2024-09-05
All That Is Sacred: Jim Harrison, Tom McGuane, Richard Brautigan and Jimmy Buffett in 1970s Key West

2024-07-26
Desert Tales: Some strange encounters

2024-03-24
The Second Kind of Impossible: The best kind of non-fiction

2024-03-22