Field notes
Things that happened to me. Sometimes also photos.
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Revenge: When I hacked my company’s voicemail system
The worst job I’ve ever had was also my first. This helped me later in life, with every job I’ve had since having been an…
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Pharma Ads: They don’t make for great dinner conversation
My wive and I had dinner at a noisy hot pot restaurant on Geary Boulevard. The restaurant was packed. When my wive went to get…
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Kári Stefánsson: Cantankerous and inspiring
None of the encounters I’ve had with Kári Stefánsson have been pleasant. I remember taking a walk with him in Heidelberg many years ago, when…
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Viscerality: Do we live too abstractly?
First: The modern world is in fact very pleasant. We have a thousand labor-saving devices. We are thoroughly accustomed to instant heat, cold, transportation, water,…
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Ambivert: Not too many people please, but also not too few
I’ve never felt solidarity except while making love, or with a tree or animal or while utterly alone on a river or in a swamp…
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Life Without Clocks or Mirrors: What would it be like?
I’ve always been immoderatly clock-oriented. But that was part of what seemed wrong with my infrequent periods of actual labor: the deadly predictability of jobs…
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