Usually, it starts with a bad joke.
I send friends memes and make dad jokes. Humor is often how I connect with people, and it makes it easier to get a conversation going.
Notes / fragments worth keeping
Things we end up talking about.
Jokes, technology, ethics, energy. These are a few of the topics I keep coming back to with friends and in my own work.
The trolley problem gets stranger when the trolley has software.
With friends, the useful question is rarely which lever we would pull. It is who chose the options, what the system can know, and whether calling a decision automatic makes anyone less responsible for it.
How quickly can an energy system change?
At HMUN, I argued for renewable energy while recognizing how difficult the transition can be. I still come back to the questions of reliability, cost, and how countries can work together.
What if better technology were easier to rebuild?
When I build something, I care about how the parts communicate and whether the interface is easy to use. I want the finished system to be straightforward, even when getting it to work wasn’t.
Small records / lab
What I keep from the lab.
A few photographs from chemistry and environmental science experiments: glassware, samples, and the setup around them.
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Between things
A few things along the way.
Subway rides and a visit to WAIC. Some photographs stay here simply because I want to remember them.
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Questions I would rather keep open.
- When does convenience hide a cost from the person using it?
- Can a sensor be honest about what it cannot measure?
- What would make good environmental data easier to share?
- Which ridiculous idea becomes useful after one constraint?