Andy Matuschak

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Wonder, blunder, salve, solve!

Working on tools that expand what people can think and do.

Past: led R&D @KhanAcademy; helped build iOS @Apple.

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Informal essays and project updates. Most are initially written for my patrons, but a subset are later made available to the public
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My guest today is software engineer, designer, and researcher Andy Matuschak. He’s focused on Tools for Thought — which is a fancy way of saying that he works on technologies that expand what people can think and do. Before working as a researcher, he helped build iOS at Apple, focusing on foundatio
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E-textbook on quantum computing written by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen. The website describes itself as "A free introduction to quantum computing and quantum mechanics... Presented in a new mnemonic medium which makes it almost effortless to remember what you read". The topics covered include
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Adopting new habits is hard! What a shame: New Year’s resolutions could represent such a bright spark of optimism. Instead, they’re a clichéd punchline on the futility of human will. Certainly, my own past attempts have deserved those jokes! But in 2017, I shifted strategies and...
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When we’re in execution mode, we swim in signs of our progress. A day’s work stands crisply in some endless checklist: four problems solved; three features added; check and check. Am I on track? Did I have a good day? Typical productivity advice applies: set goals; track progress;...
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Science developed out of philosophy. Before we had Copernicus’s planetary tables or Newton’s equations of motion, we had Aristotle’s rhetoric. That medieval natural philosophy was wrong, but it still made useful predictions. I’ve spent my career making things in the worlds of con...
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Imagine that you’ve just moved to a new city. Whenever you need to go somewhere, you ask a special machine how to get there. But it doesn’t show you a map: it tells you to take twenty steps, turn left, go forward a hundred steps, etc. When you step outside, you’re blindfolded, so...
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I recently spoke with some kids from a high school with an impressive engineering curriculum. Classes in mechanical, electrical, biological, and software engineering—the mind boggles! I told them my (enormously contrasting) story: how my high school had no engineering curriculum a...
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When I was a kid, I spent much of my time making video games. Then I devoted my early teenaged afternoons to making an app for making art for video games. Now I make tools which can (among other things) help make apps for making art for video games. My goals have shifted away fro...
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Need I remind you: the human race now sends robots to Mars. That is a thing we do! We derive that absurd capability from generations of previous epistemological revolutions which we compound and extend to create new marvels. I like to picture the tower of abstractions th...
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