Essays

Ever since I started tracking my gym lifts in a notebook, I kept asking a deceptively simple question: if I squatted 80 kg last Tuesday, what should I expect next week? At first I treated the numbers as a straight...

When I was in high school preparing group projects, my classmates and I often faced a dilemma when compiling our notes. We each had personal study diaries full of private annotations, shorthand tricks, and thoughts that we did not want...

Has anybody considered how Spotify decides that two audio files (and their messy metadata) refer to the same song? Ever since I started collecting digital music as a teenager, I wondered how to tell when two files were duplicates. At...

Ever since I started making summaries as a child, I wondered how to pick the most important information out of a textbook. When I first began, I used to underline almost every feature of the text. As I grew older,...