Autodesk's Kean Walmsley (@keanw) on prioritizing fun, freedom, and flexibility, traveling and working around the world with family, blogging, teaching, remote work, and the post-COVID world.
Here's an episode in memory of Patrick Winston which opens the new Sketches series with a short piece on story understanding with artificial intelligence and my experience attending Winston's 6.034 lectures at MIT. "Don't just tell me it's a school bus. Tell me why you think it's a school bus."
Back in August 2018, Panagiotis Michalatos and I sat down at the back porch of his house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to chat for a couple of hours. Pan, as…
There's a subtle difference between the manual and the guide. The manual is meant to tell you how to use and assemble your new gadget—the very function of…
I like to start working in the early morning with the minimum amount of items on my desk. A MacBook Air, a 4K monitor, and a wireless mouse. No matter how…
By about 3000 BC the Egyptians had already developed a calendar, and a water clock, the sand clock predecesor, was already in use around 1500 BC, probably to…
It snowed two days ago, the snow melted yesterday, and Cambridge is sunny today. With clear skies, temperatures go low. I had been learning Go programming…
Over the last months, I've been questioning why the streets of my hometown are flooded with electric scooters, at the same time that I keep asking myself…
Don't do it, measure progress instead. Measure where you were yesterday, where you were seven days ago, and where you were a month ago. Write down all of the…