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Jeremy Cherfas

Structured Procrastination

via gwern.net

[W]hat could be more noble than using one character flaw to offset the bad effects of another?

Jeremy Cherfas

A Week With No Tear Gas (Idle Words)

Good reporting from Maclej.

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Weeknotes 30 - Get me a red — Nat Buckley

Frankly, if I wanted to read a detailed report on the work you did in the past week, I’d become your boss.

Via Phil Gyford

Its bad enough feeling bad about monthly round-ups. I'm not going to foist weeknotes on myself or anyone else. But this is a good reminder.

Jeremy Cherfas

Uses This / Paul Ford

in 2019 the web is less about documents and more for restaurants

This, from one who knows.

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

My Changing World: An elegy for the window fan

So glad to see this site spring back to life, and this post is a great example of how anecdote can illuminate data.

Jeremy Cherfas

How times change.

A reminder of how things used to be in a fairly functional democracy.

Jeremy Cherfas

Well just fancy that

"States with more permissive gun laws and greater gun ownership had higher rates of mass shootings, and a growing divide appears to be emerging between restrictive and permissive states."

Jeremy Cherfas

A brief history of the “walking simulator,” gaming's most detested genre

As a non-gamer, I had no idea that this was even a thing. And some of these games are almost tempting. Found via Craig Mod's Ridgeline newsletter.