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Writing on language, computing, data, and the awkward, fertile territory where formal systems meet social life.
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What Your Sandwich Says About Your New York
A few months ago, I got into the habit of asking people what they thought New York’s defining sandwich was. Most of them in one particular group answered “bacon, egg, and cheese.” A respectable answer. A delicious answer. And then I’d ask, with a kind of bait-and-switch energy I’m not proud of, “What about a…
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Back to Blogging, Somehow
A class assignment is not the most romantic reason to return to blogging. I wish I could say that I was seized, one evening, by the old spirit of the open web: that I opened a blank page, felt the electric possibility of self-publication, and decided that the world needed my stray thoughts again. The…