Tag: research

Bookmarks for April 15, 2026

Bookmarks for March 18, 2026

  • When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
    This is fascinating. I am pretty candid about making steady use of AI during my work day, but I don't generally try and multi-task with it. I could, in theory, juggle multiple work streams, pinging between agents on different projects as they report in. But that intuitively seems like madness to me – if I'm constantly context switching, I'm not going to be doing the required thinking (and there's still more than enough of it) well enough. I can use AI to make the task I'm doing faster, but I don't want to try and use it to do two tasks at once.
  • Flexibility boosts productivity, not office mandates
    I am completely unsurprised by this news. Working from home full time (I go into the office maybe once or twice a quarter) is a *huge* benefit to me, and I am disposed to a) stay with my employer and b) work hard to ensure my employer succeeds so I don't have to find a job that will make me go into the office even part-time. I know there are some people for whom it's not true, and some jobs where it helps to be in person, but I honestly don't get why employers can't just trust people to figure out their own best practice and let them get on.
    Tags: productivity, research

Bookmarks for July 2, 2012

Bookmarks for June 6, 2012

Bookmarks for May 25, 2012

  • Griot
    The next time I meet a pagan wanging on about bards and druids and their sacred oral traditions, I'm going to slap them in their boringly white middle class face. The phenomena is far from unique, and what they're spouting about "Celtic Tradition" in Britain it's mostly made up bullshit anyway.
    Tags: research, shaman
  • UI design in the Avengers
    Detail shots of what are clearly some very cleverly thought out bits of UI design for fictional ultra-tech. This sort of thing is fascinating, both from an ideas point of view, and as an illustration of the level of thought and attention to detail that goes into even fleeting details in the background of a movie.
    Tags: design, ui, film
  • London Underground Tube Diary – Going Underground's Blog
    A chance to take a steam train on the tube! (OK, not actually, you know, underground, but that's OK, because it'll be pretty!) Yes, I will obviously have to go. I would also like to make it clear that I thought steam trains were cool *before* the goth scene discovered the colour brown.
    Tags: underground, steam, trains

Bookmarks for April 4, 2012

  • The Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes by Jess Nevins — Kickstarter
    Jess Nevins is crowdfunding his next volume of stupendous cultural research. I own his Encyclopaedia of Fantastic Victoriana, and it is *brilliant*, as well as being large enough and heavy enough to stop a charging rhinoceros. No, I'm serious. I've actually used it to do that. Anyway: you should fund this. And even if it doesn't sound like your sort of thing, you should fund it on my behalf, because I'm sick of not being able to fund things on Kickstarter thanks to amazon's fuckery. Someone pay Jess on my behalf.
    Tags: reference, friends, research