Martin Remy

  • Planting @bot Seeds ğŸŒ±

    My always-on assistant The Martin Bot, a Hermes Agent, reads my calendar, keeps my todo list and project notes, and sends me news briefings. Its main feedstock, however, are my daily notes. The daily note cleanup nudge I use Craft daily notes to capture links and jot down thoughts. Throughout the day, I dump links… Read more ⇢

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    Planting @bot Seeds ğŸŒ±

  • The strength of “I don’t know”

    I had a professor in grad school who sometimes threw erasers at students. Paul Halmos was from that generation of reluctant Hungarian emigres who made big contributions to science and computing in the US during and after World War II (and, yes, atomic weapons – although Halmos didn’t work on the Manhattan project as far as I know). I… Read more ⇢

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    The strength of “I don’t know”

  • Suitcase handles

    In life and work, we learn things. We fill suitcases with our learnings. Technical learnings, business and leadership learnings, and heuristics for making decisions. All of these go into our suitcases. Sometimes we make good decisions, and sometimes we screw up. These outcomes go into our suitcases, too. When we share this hard-earned wisdom, instead… Read more ⇢

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    Suitcase handles

  • Climate Reading List

    Here’s what I’ve been reading on climate. Please comment if you have suggestions. Changelog 2023-03-31 First version, covers fall 2022 to now. Books The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet (2022) Hal Harvey and Justin Gillis Heard on the Volts podcast. This book is all about leverage. Working to change your local… Read more ⇢

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  • Earth

    Written during a Lighthouse workshop in 2017. Mona and I grew up together in a field outside of Fresno. She was in my row. We first noticed each other in late January or early February, and we hit it off. She used to call me the ‘tall orange one’, which was funny because it was… Read more ⇢

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