Unconference on Sunday, Jan 29: new interfaces for new thoughts in the new year!
A casual tools-for-thought / weird-interfaces / future-of-personal-computing unconference to kick off the new year!
When: 2023-01-20 18:47:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Andy Matuschak posts
Towards impact through intimacy in my memory system research
Reflecting on my work with the mnemonic medium, I notice that I’m making good progress on questions of breadth and scale, but not nearly enough along the much more important axes of depth and impact. That’s not for lack of trying—my attempts...
2022-12-27 21:55:14 +0000 UTC View PostSeminar on "Biomolecular design in Realtalk", Bret Victor's latest talk; Dec 24 @ 9AM PST
tl;dr: join me on Dec 24 at 9AM PST to discuss Bret's 2022-12-15 21:50:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Cultivating depth and stillness in research
A consistent challenge in my development as a researcher has been: how to cultivate deep, stable concentration in the face of complex, ill-structured creative problems?
In roles oriented around operation and execution, I benefited enormously...
2022-11-30 21:37:04 +0000 UTC View PostLaunching a research fellowship
I'm trying something new! Work with me on a research project of mutual interest; get six months of funding and mentorship.
Details here (apply by Nov 25): https://notes.andymatuscha...
2022-11-17 22:01:26 +0000 UTC View PostSeminar on Engraft, a system for composable live programming; Oct 29 @ 9AM PDT
Join me and author Joshua Horowitz on Oct 29 from 9-10AM PDT to discuss Engraft, a...
2022-10-21 20:49:43 +0000 UTC View PostOffice hours on Monday, October 24th @2PM PDT
Trying office hours again this month (Google Calendar link; 2022-10-18 20:31:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Lessons from summer 2022’s mnemonic medium prototype
Over the past few weeks, I’ve run twenty live observation sessions for my most recent mnemonic medium prototype, and I’ve read through a stack of di...
2022-10-14 19:00:39 +0000 UTC View PostNew mnemonic medium prototype: floating prompts in Shape Up and Intro to Modern Statistics
Last month’s mnemonic medium design is now a live prototype. After a dozen live observation sessions with test readers, I’ve already learned a great deal—but I ne...
2022-09-29 02:09:52 +0000 UTC View PostSeminar this Saturday (Sep 24): Webstrates and malleable software
Summary: Join me on Sep 24 from 10-11AM PDT to discuss Webstrates, a research project with...
2022-09-21 01:23:04 +0000 UTC View PostDemo/talk: breaking the mnemonic medium out of its box
In this talk, I present a new round of primitives for the mnemonic medium, focused on the issues and opportunities I distilled out of the last round of prototyping (see tha...
2022-08-26 20:34:06 +0000 UTC View PostImpromptu patron unconference: this Sunday
Another event experiment!
This Sunday, I'll be hosting a casual unconference for patrons, 11AM-12:30PM PDT in Gather, a spatial vi...
2022-08-16 01:49:19 +0000 UTC View PostProspects for consumer silent speech interfaces
Relatively soon—maybe in our lifetimes, maybe next century—we’ll have full duplex input and output links from our brains to computers. We’ll have synthetic telepathy. We may find ourselves augmented with an effectively unlimited working me...
2022-07-31 21:42:51 +0000 UTC View PostThis Friday: live Q&A session (2022-07-22 @2PM PDT)
[Edit: oof, I accidentally recorded with no sound! Apologies! Thankfully, all who sent me questions came live, at least. We'll try something different next month…]
Hello, all! This Friday (July 22) at 2PM PDT, I'll be host...
2022-07-18 21:12:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe joyful surprises of user observation
I designed something new, and I’ve spent much of the past few weeks watching people use it. Those sessions have been generative and energiz...
2022-06-30 20:28:42 +0000 UTC View PostFirst usable prototype for the new mnemonic medium: Shape Up
Making the demo/talk on the new mnemonic medium last month really helped me refine my ideas. The next step of course was to see how people ac...
2022-06-24 18:24:13 +0000 UTC View PostJune office hours; seeking (in-person?) testers for new mnemonic medium prototype
Announcing office hours for June! Note that the first one is this Friday (Goog...
2022-06-15 21:17:54 +0000 UTC View PostMay office hours (including one tomorrow—Fri, May 13)
Announcing office hours for May! Note that the first one is tomorrow, this Friday ( 2022-05-12 22:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Demo/talk: a new peritextual mnemonic medium
Last year, I worked with authors to test the mnemonic medium (i.e. Orbit) in a bunch of contexts beyond Quantum Country. And… it didn't work nearly as well! Since late last year I've been working on 2022-05-12 20:23:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Office hours tomorrow; prototyping sneak peak livestream
Hi, all! First, a timely reminder that the second April office hours is tomorrow (Google Calend...
2022-04-29 04:55:52 +0000 UTC View PostApril office hours
Just sending out this reminder of office hours for April; note that the first one is this Thursday ( 2022-04-12 01:38:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Implicit practice - a sight reading parable
The best scientists, entrepreneurs, and engineers I know pour themselves into their work. You couldn’t capture their working hours on a timecard. Their creative gears turn restlessly, and insights produced in the shower or on walking conversatio...
2022-04-01 05:24:22 +0000 UTC View PostMarch office hours
Just sending out this reminder of office hours for March; note that the first one is tomorrow (2022-03-10 03:22:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Exponentials and forgetting in Quantum Country
Now equipped with several years of data and the results of several controlled experiments, I’ve spent the last few months making sense of what’s happening on Quantum Country. I’d like to discuss some of what I’ve found along the way, and s...
2022-03-01 06:08:27 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary / March office hours; feedback/ideas?
Continuing the office hours experiment in February and March (Google Calendar link; 2022-02-08 19:46:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Lessons from 2021
URL for the "official" public version of this post: https://andymatuschak.org/2021
The boundary of a year is arbitrary, sure. But ...
2022-01-26 18:25:35 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary office hours; tier experiments
Happy new year, all! The office hour experiments last month were intriguing enough that I'd like to experiment with twice-monthly office hours, at least for a few months. I'll alternate times to try to cover both hemispheres.
This month's ti...
2022-01-07 21:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostTools for thought: science, design, art, craftsmanship?
“It is the destiny of computers to become interactive intellectual amplifiers for all people pervasively networked worldwide.
... 2022-01-01 04:41:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Experimenting with "office hours" next week
I hope you all are having a peaceful and bright holiday season. This isn't one of my usual "letters from the lab"—more a time-sensitive invitation.
tl;dr: I'm holding "office hours" next Monday and Wednesday (12/27 and 12/29) from 2-3PM PS...
2021-12-24 16:59:46 +0000 UTC View PostQuantum Country’s suspiciously flat forgetting curves
Since 2019, I’ve been running a series of randomized controlled experiments on Quantum Country readers. The main reason I haven’t published these is that I don’t understand wha...
2021-12-01 06:35:19 +0000 UTC View Post