Work of science
Introducing PLASM - PLot Analysis Spreads for Meetings
Open-sourcing a fun little tool that might make your research meetings a bit more productive.
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Failing fast for fun and feedback
My favorite anecdote on building tight feedback loops and seeing the problem to see your problem.
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Every other hex bolt
(Minor spoilers for Iron Man.)
There’s an exchange early in Iron Man (2008) that I think about a lot. Two characters must suddenly complete a long-running project and time is running out:
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The life-changing science of scientific writing
As a working scientist and scholar, I am, in many ways, a professional writer. I enjoy writing and hope to get better doing it. Heck, that’s one reason I started making these posts.
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Getting started (A blog? In 2020?)
I’ve decided to start blogging. I can already hear the deafening silence: A blog?!? In 2020? Blogging is dead and buried!
Indeed. Blogs are long gone (having peaked in popularity over 10 years ago), and the world is currently on fire, so why bother now?
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