DJ Strouse

I’m a huge proponent of digitizing my life as much as possible. When the data of my life is available as bits, its also searchable, sharable, and can be mined to ask interesting questions.
One possible drawback I’ve noticed though is that, when the objects of my life are physically present in my immediate environment, [...]

My Goodreads Rating: 2 of 5 stars
The bits on doing physics are interesting; the bits on picking up aging tigers in shady New York bars, not so much.
This book will likely appeal far more to science fanboys and groupies rather than scientists themselves. The goal of the book seems mostly to convince lay people [...]

The following post was inspired by a NY Times article shared with me by Lena Enck, a recent USC graduate spending at least the next year doing good on the Indian subcontinent. It is adapted from an email response. I highly encourage you to read the above article first, one, because the following [...]