Or, How I Taught a Robot to Do My Chores While I Sleep

Lately I’ve been waking up to work I don’t remember doing. I haven’t taken up sleepwalking to my desk — something else has been up working while I slept.

For the past few months I’ve been running a small AI agent that clocks in around midnight. I named it Hemingway, after the writer who supposedly stopped each day mid-sentence so he’d always know where to begin the next morning. Its job description is roughly the same: while I sleep, look through my life and find something useful to pick up.

Windows 96 presents: “Italy 2000”

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Happy New Year!

With the road trip crew.

In conversation with John Carpenter before a screening of his film “Escape from L.A.” at the Egyptian Theatre. Aside from his 1996 movie being worth a revisit, the Q&A was particularly thought-provoking. I appreciated Carpenter’s irreverence, his thoughts on finally getting his star on the Walk of Fame, and memories of trying to make the film on a limited ($50M) budget. On the demise of modern Los Angeles:

Where the buffalo roam.

Here’s to you, baby.

Spotted at Eisenberg’s